12 Courageous Women Around the World, Fighting for Each of the 12 Goals of the Beijing Platform for Action

Front Line Defenders – https://medium.com/@FrontLineDefenders/beijing-platform-for-action-b6f4403c42f4

Front Line Defenders is highlighting 12 women fighting for each of the 12 goals established in the Beijing Platform for Action two decades ago.

Regardless of age, nationality, and rights they defend, these 12 women human rights defenders share a refusal to quit in the face of highly gendered harassment, violence, and persecution.

Click the above website link and read about each woman and the role she plays. 

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Po Po, Burma

Yadanar Su Po Paing, better known as Po Po, is a 20-year-old human rights defender and student activist. She is a member of All Burma Federation of Student Union (ABFSU), an organisation that has led the protests against the National Education Bill. Student activists claim it restricts academic freedom and marginalizes ethnic languages and cultures in university curricula.

Po Po has been one of the leaders of the student protest. On April 8 2015, she was arrested from her home and imprisoned near Rangoon. She was accused of having participated in an unlawful assembly and rioting, along with other fellow students. Last July, a court in Rangoon released her on bail.