Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA People: Meet Charm Tong
This month we introduce you to Shan teacher and human rights activist, Charm Tong. At age six, Charm Tong was forced to leave her beloved Shan State (Burma) to escape conflict. She settled in a refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border with her family.
BURMA’S ELECTIONS: MAKING SENSE OF THE RESULTS
The results are in: the people have voted for change. Authoritarianism has been cast aside as Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) becomes Burma’s first civilian government in over fifty years. But what do the results really mean?