Search Results for Tag: Yangon
Stigma or separation: The painful choice facing Myanmar’s single mothers
Eight months pregnant, shamed by her family and shunned by the father of her child, Aye Mar has accepted she will have to give up her baby to an orphanage in Myanmar, a country where single mothers are ostracised and deemed a “disgrace”.
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13.11.2018 | 12:10
abortions, birth, Discrimination, disgrace, Myanmar, Pregnancy, sex education, single mothers, UNFPA, women's rights, Yangon
“Shines with the colour of pearls”: Myanmar’s trade in human hair booms
Hair helps to pay the rent for Za Za Lin, whose eyes filled with tears as her long black mane was combed, cut, and untangled by practised hands at a roadside market stall in Myanmar’s commercial hub of Yangon.
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05.11.2018 | 13:10
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