Jenny Hedström is currently undertaking her PhD at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, looking at gender and conflict in Kachin State, Burma/Myanmar. She has previously worked in the international development sector, and with grassroots activists and Burmese women’s rights organizations in Thailand and Burma/Myanmar. Her latest article is ‘We Did Not Realize about the Gender Issues. So, We Thought It Was a Good Idea: Gender roles in Burmese oppositional struggles’, International Feminist Journal of Politics (2015).
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Right: Since the ceasefire, women of all ages have taken very active roles in supporting the return to arms and in resisting what they see as the disregard for the situation of the Kachin people by Burmese politicians, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Left: Public outrage at the murder of two volunteer teachers by Burmese soldiers.
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