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Gatty Lecture: What's Happening in Myanmar?: Women, Peace and Security

February 17, 2022

12:15 pm

102 Mann Library

This talk is co-organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

May Sabe Phyu is a women human rights defender leading civil society efforts to end discrimination against women and ethnic and religious minorities for more than 20 years in the development and humanitarian sector. She raises awareness of the human cost of conflict and advocates for peace and reconciliation. For her leadership in advocating for the full and equal rights of women and ethnic and religious minorities in Myanmar, she received the International Women of Courage Award in 2015. May Phyu is now in the United States after the military’s brutal violence crackdown in Myanmar. She is also a founding member of the Women’s Advocacy Coalition Myanmar connecting with her sisters inside the country and exile. May Phyu is currently hosted by the Dorothea S. Clarke Program in Feminist Jurisprudence at the Cornell Law School and is an active collaborator with Profs. Sandra Babcock and Elizabeth Brundige in the International Human Rights Clinic and the Gender Justice Clinic.

This Gatty lecture will take place in person at 102 Mann Library, but people are also welcome to join us on Zoom. Please register here if you wish to attend via Zoom: https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsd-yvqjstGdKq7F0ZT1TqTd1iXr…

For questions, please contact seapgatty@cornell.edu.

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Additional Information

Program

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Southeast Asia Program