One Year After the Coup Attempt: Violence Against Women and Girls by the Myanmar Military Junta
Categories: Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Violent Conflict
Sub-Categories: Access to Justice and Rule of Law, Democratization and Political Participation, Human Development, human rights, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)
Country: Myanmar
Region: East Asia and the Pacific
Year: 2022
Citation: "One Year After the Coup Attempt: Violence Against Women and Girls by the Myanmar Military Junta." Women's Peace Network. February 2022.
Sub-Categories: Access to Justice and Rule of Law, Democratization and Political Participation, Human Development, human rights, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)
Country: Myanmar
Region: East Asia and the Pacific
Year: 2022
Citation: "One Year After the Coup Attempt: Violence Against Women and Girls by the Myanmar Military Junta." Women's Peace Network. February 2022.
Executive Summary
This briefer describes the situation of women and girls since the Myanmar military and security forces’ coup attempt on February 1, 2021 and its ensuing humanitarian crisis, and their systematic and widespread attacks of violence – extrajudicial killing, arbitrary arrest and detention, and torture and sexual violence – against this population in particular. In doing so, this paper demonstrates the extent to which the junta forces are brutalizing the Myanmar people, and urges the international community to hold these perpetrators to account immediately.