Zin Mar Aung
Zin Mar Aung (Burmese: ဇင်မာအောင်; born 14 June 1976) is a Burmese activist.[1][2] She received the International Women of Courage Award from the U.S State Department in 2012.[2]
Life change
Zin Mar Aung studied botany in the university. She received a degree from the University of Distance Education in Yangon.[3]
Work change
Zin Mar Aung was part of the Burma democracy movement. Because of this, she was a political prisoner for eleven years. [4] She started a group for Asian culture and democracy. She also started a group to help women who were political prisoners. [2] [5] She also helped start a group for women's empowerment. In 2012, she became the leader of an organization for ethnic minorities in war areas.[2] In 2013 she started to work with the International Foundation for Electoral Systems on women’s political empowerment under the Global Women’s Leadership Fund.[5]
References change
- ↑ The Myanmar Times. "A voice that demands to be heard". mmtimes.com. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "2012 International Women of Courage Award Winners". state.gov. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
- ↑ "'ျပန္ထြက္လာေတာ့လည္း သိတဲ့အတိုင္းပဲ ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရး အေျခအေနက ကဲငါတို႔မလိုအပ္ေတာ့ဘူးဆိုတဲ့ အေနအထားမ်ဳိး မဟုတ္ဘူး'". Mizzima News. Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
- ↑ "'What Others Dare Not Think'".
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "IFES - Zin Mar Aung on the Importance of Women in Peace and Politics in Myanmar". ifes.org. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2015.