Radio Free AsiaSouth Korea Park Sun-young (South Korea) — Women in Human Rights womensrights.asia - By Catherine Antoine She also speaks up for the so-called “comfort women,” Korean women and girls who were forced into prostitution by the Japanese military during World …
Radio Free Asia Sivanxai Phommalath (Laos) — Women in Human Rights womensrights.asia - By Catherine Antoine Corruption, mismanagement, and abuse from local police swiftly followed. Phommalath’s family of three saw their plot of land expropriated, along with …
Radio Free Asia Tran Thi Nga (Vietnam) — Women in Human Rights womensrights.asia - By Catherine Antoine But still she doesn't let go. “You don't receive complaints from citizens,” she continues to shout. “You cover up for police harming citizens.” “They …
Radio Free Asia Gao Yu (China) — Women in Human Rights womensrights.asia - By Catherine Antoine Gao’s career began the year that her country made a 180-degree turn toward a market economy. In 1979, as then-leader Deng Xiaoping launched economic …
Radio Free Asia Dechen Pemba (Tibet) — Women in Human Rights womensrights.asia - By Catherine Antoine “My work today is dedicated to supporting voices from inside Tibet and the Chinese People’s Republic,” she said at the 2011 Geneva Summit on Human …
Radio Free Asia Susanna Hla Hla Soe (Myanmar) — Women in Human Rights womensrights.asia - By Catherine Antoine But more than 50 years of military rule and ethnic conflicts have destroyed these freedoms. Many Myanmar women—particularly members of ethnic …
Radio Free Asia Nurungul Tohti (Uyghur) — Women in Human Rights womensrights.asia - By Catherine Antoine Already a widow at age 33, Tohti was working in 2009 as a fruit seller in the northern Chinese city of Dalian when her son was kidnapped. She had …
Radio Free Asia Sisters, Mothers, Daughters and Wives — Women in Human Rights womensrights.asia - By Catherine Antoine SHE HAS LANGUISHED UNDER HOUSE ARREST since her husband, who remains in jail, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. Without being charged with any …
Radio Free Asia Yorm Bopha and Tep Vanny (Cambodia) — Women in Human Rights womensrights.asia - By Catherine Antoine Convicted of “intentional violence” and led away by police in December 2012, Yorm Bopha yelled: “Who does the judge work for? Does the judge work for …
Radio Free Asia Zin Mar Aung (Myanmar) — Women in Human Rights womensrights.asia - By Catherine Antoine But she was suddenly released in 2009—“Pick up your stuff and go outside” is the summary order she recalls—and went on to found the Yangon School of …
Radio Free AsiaFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Patigul Ghulam (Uyghur) — Women in Human Rights womensrights.asia - By Catherine Antoine “Your mother incited the people against our government by raising an outcry in public,” the authorities told Ghulam’s daugther, Patime Eli, who had …
