What were we tweeting about this week? Here are a few highlights from our Twitter feeds.
Posts Tagged “Burma”
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Posted in: Africa, Asia, Media & Arts
Topics: Burma, dominican republic, Laura Brahm, Namibia, Rwanda, Twitter, unesco, women
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In Eastern Burma, more than 3,500 villages have been destroyed in the past 15 years and hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities continue to be used as slave labor. Author Zoya Phan aims to move others to take action for human rights in her homeland.
Posted in: Asia, Rights & Equality
Topics: Amy Weil, Burma, democracy, human rights, Zoya Phan
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Aye Chan Naing, head of the news agency depicted in the award-winning documentary Burma VJ, comments on what an Oscar win could mean for human rights activists working inside Burma’s closed society.
Posted in: Asia, Media & Arts, Rights & Equality
Topics: Burma, journalism, press freedom, video
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In this interview, Aye Chan Naing of news agency Democratic Voice of Burma, talks about the undercover journalists who risk torture and imprisonment to report from their country.
Posted in: Asia, Media & Arts, Rights & Equality
Topics: Burma, journalism, Maureen Aung-Thwin