2014 World Refugee Day
World Refugee Day is held every year in June 20. According to UNHCR, there are more than 50 million refugees around the world, half of which are women and children. For…
2014 International Women’s Day
On the 8th of March 2014, the International Women’s Day (IWD) will be celebrated worldwide. Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE)Foundation has been working for more than twenty years,…
Sexual Violence in Burma used as a War Weapon
In January 2014, the thailand-based Women’s League of Burma (WLB) launched the report “Same Impunity, Same Pattern: Sexual abuses by the Burma army will not stop until there is a…
WEAVE: Promoting Fair Trade activities in Refugee Camps
7:45am, it is time to meet Mitos Urgel, the executive director of WEAVE: we have a busy day ahead of us. With her traditional hat and embroidered shoes, we can’t…
Empowering Refugees from Burma, through Education & Craftwork
Muga Pado (Big Aunty, literally, in the Karen language) is Karen by ethnicity. and has been one of the pioneer embroiderers of WEAVE’s handicraft project. Muga Pado’s family escaped to Thailand in 1990 from the human rights atrocities perpetrated by the Burmese military junta.