Myanmar Women Under Oppression

January 1, 2026

With their increasing role in the Spring Revolution, women have been deliberately targeted by the junta, subjected to arbitrary arrest, sexual violence, torture, and killing. In the almost five years since the junta’s coup, severe war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed across Burma and vulnerable children, persons with disability and women have faced disproportionate suffering as a result.

Burma has ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The junta has employed gender-based violence as a weapon of war long before this Spring Revolution. Such violence is being used to directly undermine women’s agency and aspirations, destroy their social identity and inflict humiliation against them.

The junta will continue to openly commit inhumane acts of violence, torture, sexual abuse, killing, as well as other violations against women, if swift and effective action is not taken against them. It is therefore, of the utmost importance to deny them legitimacy and to ensure that the basic needs of survivors are met in a timely manner, including access to healthcare.

Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP)⁩