Life or death: Giving birth in Burma
Cer Lui had to make a split decision — to drive herself to the hospital by motorbike, or stay in her home with her seven children — and deliver her baby.
Cer Lui had to make a split decision — to drive herself to the hospital by motorbike, or stay in her home with her seven children — and deliver her baby.
Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya
As Rohingya women struggle to access even the very basics such as food and water in Bangladesh’s overcrowded camps, a flourishing sex trade offers cash in times of desperation.
Arakan Health Lead Story News Rohingya
In a speech last week, Aung San Suu Kyi said all people in Arakan State “have access to education and healthcare services without discrimination.” For critics, however, that’s simply not true — a contention supported by a report that Suu Kyi’s own government has embraced.
Development Economy Lead Story News
The UN says that one in four people in Burma live in low-quality housing, exposing them to greater threats during natural disasters.
Burma is training up hundreds of midwives in an effort to reduce the number of women who die in childbirth, one of many social policy reforms launched by the country as it emerges from decades of military rule.
Feature Health Lead Story News Women's Issues
In a country where the subject of sex is still shrouded in shame, teaching young people how to prevent unwanted pregnancies remains a challenge.
Lead Story News Women's Issues
Burma’s progress in achieving gender equality was under the spotlight in Naypyidaw on Friday during a review of the country’s National Strategic Plan for the Advancement of Women.
Census Chin Lead Story News Women's Issues
Married women in Chin State give birth to nine children on average, compared to four in Rangoon, according to new data.
Representatives of the United Nations Population Fund speak to DVB about efforts to address gender-based violence in Burma.
Census Lead Story News Religion
The percentage of Muslims in Burma’s population has barely grown in more than 30 years, according to census data released this week after more than two years of delays.
Bringing Burma’s national census to Wa State paid off in many ways, including increasing cooperation among communities long at odds with each other.
Life is short in Burma, and for many, most of it is spent working for their survival.
The government is moving to extend maternal care services countrywide, in a bid to reduce risky illegal abortions and high rates of maternal fatalities.
Census Lead Story News Society
A majority of houses in Burma are constructed from bamboo; only two percent have flush toilets, and 16 percent have electricity, according to a new census.
This year’s census showed a population almost 10 million short of the estimated figure.
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Burma’s Ministry of Immigration and Population released provisional census data on Saturday, showing that the country has a population of 51.4 million people, almost ten million fewer than previous estimates.
DVB Debate Lead Story News Politics Video
In the second of a two-part special on war crimes, panellists on DVB Debate discuss the systematic use of rape by the Burmese army.
Census Lead Story News Rohingya
Census-takers are locked in a standoff with Rohingya householders in Arakan State as the Muslim minority decline to answer questions while the enumerators refuse to record their ethnicity on the census questionnaires.
The census went ahead in Arakan State today as a decision to eliminate the term “Rohingya” from data collection lead to the cancellation of a planned boycott.
Census Lead Story News Society
DVB captured some scenes of enumerators preparing the census questionnaires, leaving their stations, and interviewing the residents of Dala and Bahan townships in Rangoon.
Incomplete demographic data is holding back development efforts in a new Burma, yet counting heads now could cause violence.
Ethnic issues Interview Lead Story News Society
DVB’s Angus Watson speaks to Janet Jackson, Burma Representative of the United Nations Population Fund, and her assistant Hla Hla Aye, about the international agency’s role in the upcoming census, its significance and the potential pitfalls.
The All Myanmar Islam Association has issued census directives to the country’s Islamic population as Rohingya classification remains a contentious issue.
Two Rohingya political parties issued a plea to the government last Friday not to be categorised as “other” in the upcoming census, claiming they are “bona fide citizens” and entitled to be recognised as an ethnic minority group in Burma.
As the country plans for its first official census in decades, several hurdles must be overcome if all of Burma’s ethnic minority groups are to be included
Burma’s landmark census planned for 2014 is likely to exclude the country’s Rohingya minority group, whom have been denied citizenship for nearly 30 years
Dhaka official says aid money would ‘increase tension between Rohingya and locals’ as rights groups criticise Bangladeshi polciy to refugees