Hear their voices

Chinese dumplings:

I'll have you know that this week consisted of tons of the following things: mosquito bites, sticky rice consumption, watching shooting stars from my friend's houseboat (neither a house nor a boat... discuss), and scratching the aforementioned mosquito bites. All's well here.

More words from my students re women's and human rights.

From G:

On the fourth day we learned about women rights. There are sixteen women's rights. The most interesting things are women's rights and the history of women's rights . I think we should know the sixteen women rights. Thus, we know our rights and we can protect ourselves from the bad guys and the bad governments. Burma signed the "Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women on July 22, 1997. I didn't know before that Burma signed it.

During the training I felt bad for life of women. I felt sad and also I know they had led rough and poor lives to get women's rights. After I knew about women's rights and the history of women's rights I have very surprised. They were trying many kinds of ways to get it; they are trying to eliminate violence against women. Also we knew about the strength of CEDAW, the weakness of CEDAW and present improving to me and I am interested so much.

On fifth day we learned about the situation of women in the world. Just a few women hold high positions in the world. I am very interested about this because I thought we should know about it, and if we know that issue we can try to get a high position later.

During the training I felt very surprised because they don't give a chance woman to be in high level positions. Burma has already signed CEDAW and the government doesn't respect that contract. Now we know and in my mind we should act against our government. I really want to work against our government and I want to try to get freedom. I want to share what I know about women's rights with other people. So this training is important to me and I am very interested.

From H:
I learned about women rights today. Some things i have learned from this day are" the situation of women in the world ", and the role play about War War. I felt so sorry for women and I felt so happy of the game during the training.
This training was very important for me. After I learn about women, I wanted to share it to all men. I gained knowledge about women during this training so much.

From LH:
There are two important things, They are Communsim, Socialsim, Democracy and the thirty Points of Human Rights. The system of Communism is one party, everybody should feel the same, the party can decide all, nobody needs to worry about their education and health. The system of Socialism is that the government has to take care of citizens who have to pay taxes to the government and nationalize businesses . There are two systems of Democracy; Direct and indirect democracy. During the training , i felt interested. It is really important to know about this because we want to get Democracy in Burma,so we should know what Democracy is. We just know the word Democracy, but not the meaning. Most people in Burma say Democracy, but only a few people know the meaning. Now we can tell others as much as we can.