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🌏 Standing Together Against CRSV
CAN–Myanmar is proud to have collaborated with the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator – Myanmar in contributing vital information to the UN Secretary-General’s 2024 Report on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.

The Myanmar section (paras. 45–50) documents ongoing patterns and trends of CRSV, amplifying the voices and experiences of survivors that must never be silenced.

We will soon share a Myanmar-language translation of this section so our communities can fully access and understand these findings.

📄 Read the full report:https://www.un.org/sexualviolenceinconflict/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2024-SG-annual-report-on-CRSV-ENGLISH.pdf

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📢 Joint Statement Summary

Myanmar LGBTIQ Organizations Reject 2025 Military-Orchestrated Elections
📅 5 August 2025

Issued by:
🔹 CAN-Myanmar
🔹 LGBTI-Inclusive Election Observation Mission of Myanmar
🔹 Coalition of LGBTIQ Organizations under the Electoral Sector during the Democratic Transition of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (CLOES-DTRUM)

Three leading LGBTIQ and democracy-focused organizations in Myanmar have jointly declared their firm rejection of the Myanmar military’s planned 2025 elections, describing them as illegitimate, exclusionary, and a threat to democratic restoration.

With a proven track record in voter education, civic participation, and inclusive election observation during Myanmar’s 2015, 2018, and 2020 elections, these organizations assert that:

🔴 The 2025 electoral process, orchestrated by a junta that came to power through unconstitutional and violent means,
🔴 Lacks credibility, inclusivity, and transparency,
🔴 And does not reflect the will of the people.

They reaffirm that they will not participate in, support, or legitimize any initiative or process linked to these sham elections, and call on the international community to reject attempts to normalize military rule.

“Democracy in Myanmar must be restored by its people—not imposed by force.
We remain committed to inclusive, civilian-led governance grounded in human rights and dignity for all.”
— Joint Statement, 5 August 2025

📞 Contact for Media Inquiries:
👤 Saw Zin Maung Soe
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Donation Record – April 8, 2025
Location: Sagaing Township – Min Lan Ward, Htone Bo Ward, Nan Taw Ya Ward, Thayatpin Ward, Yathaung Ward, and Zaygone Ward

Today, we successfully donated to 50 earthquake-affected households in Sagaing City using a house-to-house distribution system led by local community volunteer leaders.

Each household received a total of 18 types of essential items and cash assistance of 50,000 MMK per household. On behalf of the generous local and international donors who trusted and supported us, we were able to effectively contribute over 5 million MMK worth of aid.

ယနေ့ April 8, 2025 အလှူမှတ်တမ်း

စစ်ကိုင်းမြို့နယ်၊ မင်းလမ်း ရပ်ကွက်၊ ထုံးဘိုရပ်ကွက်၊ နန်းတော်ရာ ရပ်ကွက်၊ သရက်ပင်ရပ်ကွက်၊ ယထောင်ရပ်ကွက်၊ ဈေးကုန်းရပ်ကွက်အတွင်းရှိ စစ်ကိုင်း ငလျင်သဘာဝဘေးသင့် အိမ်ထောင်စု များထဲမှ အိမ်ထောင်စု ၅၀ အား ဒေသခံ စေတနာ့ဝန်ထမ်း ခေါင်းဆောင်များမှ တအိမ်ဝင် တအိမ်ထွက်စနစ်ဖြင့် သွားရောက်လှူဒါန်းနိုင်ခဲ့ကြပါသည်။

ပါဝင်ပစ္စည်းများ(မဂျန်းတော ဆန် တပြည်၊ ဆီ ၄၅ကျပ်သား တဘူး၊ ခေါက်ဆွဲခြောက် ၃ ထုတ်၊ ဆား အထုတ်ကြီး တထုတ်၊ အချိုမှုန့်အထုတ်ကြီး တထုတ်၊ A1 ငါးသေတ္တာ တဘူး၊ ဖယောင်းတိုင် အထုတ်ကြီး တထုတ်၊ မီးခြစ် တခု၊ ခေါင်းလျှော်ရည် ၂တွဲ၊ Royal D ဓာတ်ဆား ၅ထုတ်၊ ခြင်ဆေးခွေ တဘူး၊ သွားတိုက်ဆေး သွားတိုက်တံ တတွဲ၊ ဆပ်ပြာမှုန့်အထုတ်ကြီးတထုတ်၊ ကာဘော်လစ်ဆပ်ပြာတခဲ၊ လဖက်တတွဲ၊ ကုလားပဲ ၅၀ကျပ်သား တထုတ်၊ ၆လုံးတပါကင် ရေသန့်၂ကဒ် စုစုပေါင်း ၁၈မျိုး) + ငွေသား ၅၀၀၀၀ ကျပ်

ကျွန်​တော်တို့ဆီကို ယုံကြည်စွာ ဖြင့်ပူးပေါင်းကူညီပါဝင်လှူဒါန်းပေးကြတဲ့ပြည်တွင်း၊ပြည်ပမှ လှူတဲ့အလှူရှင်​ သူငယ်ချင်းမိတ်​တွေကိုယ်စား သိန်း ၅၀ကျော် ဖိုး ထိထိ​ရောက်​ရောက် လှူဒါန်းနိုင်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။

LGBTQIAN+ Persons Should Not Be Left Behind: A call for an inclusive emergency response to the complex crisis in Myanmar

We, various LGBTQIAN+ civil society organizations, and allies from across Asia express our deepest concern for all communities and families affected by the deadly earthquake that shook Myanmar and neighboring countries in Asia. In this time of global political and economic crisis, we understand that the loss of lives, of property, and its serious impacts on well-being run deep and may have long-term impacts.
We are collectively facing a complex crisis in Myanmar. Despite thousands of lives lost in the earthquake-hit areas, we are concerned that military violence, including military airstrikes, has never ceased. The junta’s conduct of air strikes in the aftermath of the earthquake is deplorable. On top of this, the military junta continues to enforce restrictions that hinder independent humanitarian actors from reaching out to, and delivering the needed services in badly affected areas.
We call upon humanitarian and aid organizations to take immediate and inclusive action to support all those affected by this devastating calamity. In this time of crisis, it is imperative that the specific concerns and vulnerabilities faced by LGBTQIAN+ individuals are recognized and addressed. Foremost of which is the pervasive social stigma and their invisibilization in the humanitarian system.
LGBTQIAN+ individuals in Myanmar urgently require assistance to meet their immediate needs. Key support needed includes:
* Ready-to-eat food
* Drinking water and sanitation
* Medicines and medical care
* Psychosocial assistance
* Electricity, internet and telecommunications access
* Hormonal treatment for trans and non-binary persons
* Sanitary pads for assigned female at birth (AFAB) people and other gender sensitive care.
* ART for people who live with HIV.
* Safe shelters that are inclusive to trans and non-binary people
* Mosquito nets, mosquito repellents
In a time of complex crisis, humanitarian response will be effective when there is a situation of peace. We demand a ceasefire, the lifting of military surveillance and control, the provision of access to international humanitarian assistance, and the acceleration of rescue operations in the affected areas.
LGBTQIAN+ people are part of the fabric of Myanmar despite the military's continuous efforts in their erasure, and are equally vulnerable in this crisis. We implore organizations to actively consider the specific needs and safety of LGBTQIAN+ individuals in their relief efforts, ensuring equitable access to shelter, food, healthcare, and all forms of assistance. An inclusive humanitarian response is not just ethical, it is essential for effectively reaching and supporting everyone in need.
Signatories
1. Calendar Team
2. Friends of Myanmar
3. APCOM
4. AroAce-clusionist: Aromantic & Asexual Exist Thailand
5. Arakan Youth Peace Network- AYPN
6. ASEAN SOGIE Caucus (ASC)
7. ASEAN Youth Forum
8. Asian Network of Asexual Q***r Activists (ANOAQA)
9. Bangkok Lefty Reading Group
10. Blood Money Campaign
11. Campaign for Popular Democracy (CPD)
12. CAN-Myanmar
13. Cebu United Rainbow LGBTQI+ Sector, Inc.
14. Chiang Mai Pride
15. Colors Rainbow
16. Defend Myanmar Democracy
17. Free To Be Me Indonesia
18. Health and Opportunity Network
19. H0M0HAUS, Performing Arts Festival for Diversity
20. ILGA Asia
21. Iloilo Pride Team
22. Intersex Asia
23. Intersex Philippines
24. Justice for Sisters
25. LBTQ Well-Being (Thailand)
26. Manushya Foundation
27. Mermaid Pride Thailand
28. Milk Tea Alliance Thailand
29. Movement for Alternatives and Solidarity in Southeast Asia (MASSA)
30. Mujer-LGBT Organization Inc
31. Non-Binary Southeast Asia
32. Non-Binary Thailand
33. NUSG (Singapore)
34. People's Movement to Eliminate Discrimination: MovED (Thailand)
35. Pioneer Filipino Transgender men Movement (Pioneer FTM)
36. Progressive Voice
37. PUP KASARIANLAN
38. QLC Bali
39. Q***rs of Burma Alternative
40. Rainbow Talk Myanmar
41. Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network
42. Sangsan Anakot Yawachon Foundation
43. Serii-Palestine
44. Sirisak Chaited
45. Side B Philippines
46. Sisters 2 Sisters
47. Support Group and Resource Center on Sexuality Studies (SGRC Indonesia)
48. Tagoloan Gender Advocacy Group (TAGAD)
49. Thai Intersex Rights
50. THAI for Palestine
51. Transmen Indonesia
52. Union for Civil Liberty (UCL)
53. V day Thailand
54. Young People for Social Democracy Movement (YPD)
55. Young Pride Foundation
56. Youth Voices Count, Inc.

LGBTQIAN+ Persons Should Not Be Left Behind: A call for an inclusive emergency response to the complex crisis in Myanmar Advocating for human rights for sexual and gender minorities throughout Southeast Asia

We, Civil Authorize Negotiate Organization (CAN-Myanmar ), consider it a privilege to stand alongside 114 esteemed organizations in co-signing an oral statement of Women Deliver ahead of the upcoming debate at the Human Rights Council's 58th Session. The "Annual High-Level Panel Discussion on Human Rights Mainstreaming: Thirtieth Anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action" is scheduled for February 24th at 4 PM CET.

In our statement, We urge all Member States to respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of all women
and girls, honouring the commitments made both at and since Beijing. We also call on this Council to prioritize and protect space for civil society and Human Rights Defenders. Feminists have fought for the progress achieved over the last 30 years, and we will continue to fight until gender equality is a reality for everyone.

Myanmar Input: Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in relation to forced displacement

We aim to highlight the urgent need for protection against violence and discrimination faced by individuals due to their sexual orientation and gender identity, particularly in the context of forced displacement in Myanmar. This essential information will contribute to U.N IE SOGI Mr. Graeme Reid's upcoming report for the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council, advocating for the rights and dignity of all people, regardless of their identity. Let's work together to promote a future where everyone can live without fear and discrimination.

POPE FRANCIS WITH TRANSGENDER
ပုတ်ရဟန်းမင်းကြီး ဖရန့်စစ်ဟာ ကတ်သိုလစ်ဘာသာဝင် ဆန်ကျင့်ဘက်လိင်ကဲ့သို့ပြုမှုပြောင်းလဲနေထိုင်ခံယူသူများနှင့် လိင်ဝိသေသလက္ခဏာများဖြင့်ကျား/မ အနေဖြင့်သတ်မှတ်၍မရသူများအား ၎င်းစံမြန်းရာ ဗာတီကန်နန်းတော်မှာ အောက်တိုဘာလ ၁၂ရက်နေ့က လက်ခံတွေ့ဆုံဆွေးနွေးခဲ့တယ်လို့ ရိုက်တာ သတင်းဌာနကဖော်ပြခဲ့ပါတယ်။

POPE FRANCIS WITH TRANSGENDER CATHOLICS 🏳️‍🌈

Pope Francis poses for a photo with Michael Sennett, Cynthia Herrick, Nicole Santamaria, Francis DeBernardo, Matthew Myers, Michael Sennett, Laurie Dever, Deacon Raymond Dever, Robert Shine and Brian Flanagan during his meeting with transgender Catholics and supporters at the Vatican, October 12, 2024. 📸 New Ways Ministry/Handout via Reuters

“I am grateful to Pope Francis that he was willing to listen to the experiences of intersex and transgender people,” said New Ways Ministry cofounder Sister Jeannine Gramick.

“It is only by listening to stories of these individuals, as well as the individuals who care for and about them, that the Church will be able to fully hear the voice of the Holy Spirit calling the Catholic community to break out of old, ill-informed teachings and practices,” she added.

How do you feel about the Pope’s engagement of transgender Catholics? Let’s talk in the faith chat room of the Rappler Communities app: https://rplr.co/FaithChat