Myanmar

Mayanmar (Burma)

__**Geography**__
 * Myanmar is located in South East Asia. India and Bangladesh border it on the north and Thailand borders it on the south. China and Laos borders it on the east and The Bay of Bengal and Adman Seas border it on the west.
 * Its capital city is Rangoon.
 * It is slightly smaller than Texas and the total area of land is 678,500 sq. km.
 * There are some islands off the coast of Myanmar, they are Auriol Island, Cheduba Island, the Coco Islands, Mergui Archipelago, and Ramree
 * The population is more than 42,909,600 people.
 * The terrain comprises of central lowlands ringed by steep, rugged highlands
 * Climate: tropical monsoon; cloudy, rainy, hot, humid summers (southwest monsoon, June to September); less cloudy, scant rainfall, mild temperatures, lower[[image:map_burma_a.jpg width="496" height="330" align="right"]] humidity during winter (northeast monsoon, December to April)
 * The lowest point of elevation is the Adman sea at 0 mm and the highest point of elevation is Hkakabo Razi at 5,881 m
 * Some of the severe hardships that women and children have faced with are the cyclones that affect the country.

**__Mayanmar Economic Conditions:__**
 * Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) data showed Myanmar has 115 million barrels of onshore and 100 million barrels of offshore proven oil reserves. Aside from food processing, other manufacturing industries include wood and wood products, construction materials, pharmaceuticals, fertilizer, natural gas, and textiles and clothing. Exports include gas, wood products, pulses, fish, rice, clothing, jade, and gemstones. The chief imports are fabric, petroleum products, fertilizer, plastics, machinery, transportation equipment, construction materials, crude oil, food products, and edible oil.
 * Despite continued growth in the oil and gas sector, the rest of the economy will remain weak.
 * In 1997 the CIA World Factbook estimated that 23 percent of the Burmese population had incomes that placed them below the poverty line.
 * Average Mayanmar income is less than $735 per year

**__Mayanmar poverty, violation of human rights, deaths, and health issues:__**
 * The estimated number of people living with AIDs in 2009 was about 240,000/1,000,000 – about 24%
 * About 32% of children under the age of 5 have moderate to severe underweight problems
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The military rulers of Myanmar have jailed thousands of people in their continuing efforts to crush all dissenting views
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Most prominent of those detained was Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was released on November 13, 2010

**__Reasons (History):__** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The most severe and recent hardships affecting children and women in Myanmar are attributable to cyclones.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Economic mismanagement and human rights abuses
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The military's continued widespread use of forced and child labor
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The recruitment of child soldiers
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Burma’s military government dominates the country’s politics and its economy. It has continued to repress political opponents.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">During August–September 1988 widespread public dissatisfaction with the government culminated in large-scale protests which were repressed with the loss of over three thousand lives. The government subsequently called multi-party elections in May 1990 which were won by the National League for Democracy (NLD) led by Aung San Suu Kyi (the daughter of the independence leader, General Aung San).evelopment and human rights is considered widely to be poor.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Burmese women and children are trafficked to East and Southeast Asia for commercial sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, and forced labor
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Conflict in Burma/ Myanmar has sent hundreds of thousands of refugees to neighboring countries to escape the ravages of war, exploitation, or harassment. In both the 1970s and again in the 1990s, about 200,000 Muslim refugees have fled into Bangladesh to escape the Burma army.

__**Quotes**__ :

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">"I extend my support and solidarity with the recent peaceful movement for democracy in Burma. I fully support their call for freedom and democracy and take this <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">opportunity to appeal to freedom-loving people all over the world to support such non-violent movements. Moreover, I wish to convey my sincere appreciation and admiration to the large number of fellow Buddhists monks for advocating democracy and freedom in Burma." <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">- Dali Lama

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">"This is a hellhole beyond your wildest dreams, I think there is a story that needs to be told." Talking about the country <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">- Sylvester Stallone

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">"I believe I'm meant to find my children in the world somewhere and not necessarily have them genetically. I like to think with every adoption I'm saving another child from an orphanage." <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">- Angelina Jole <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Angelina and Brad Pitt have reportedly enlisted the help of Dr Jane Aronson, who runs the Worldwide Orphans Foundation, and a leading Burmese monk to help arrange visits to local orphanages in the war-torn country. As well as a adopting a kid, she wants to use her role of a UN Goodwill Ambassador to help Myanmar.

__**<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Works Cited **__

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">"Children and Women in Crisis." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">http://www.unicef.org/hac2011/ ////<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">hac_myanmar.php //. UNICEF, n.d. Web. 6 Dec. 2011.<http://unicef,org>.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Frost, Dr. Frank. //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/bn/fads/burma.htm //. N.p., 5Oct. 2009. Web. 6 Dec. 2011. <http://aph.gov>.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Steinberg, David I. //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">www.ibiblio.org //. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Dec. 2011.<http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/Steinberg-Myanmar's_problems.htm>. //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">www.cia.gov //. CIA, 14 Nov. 2011. Web. 6 Dec. 2011. <http://https://www.cia.gov///library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bm.html>.

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">"Geography of Burma." //Wikipedia//. MediaWiki, n.d. Web. 28 Nov. 2011.//

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Burma>. //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">"Geopgraphy and Map of Burma (Myanamar)." //About.com//. The New York Times Company,//

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. <http://geography.about.com/library/cia/ //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> blcburma.htm>. //

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">"Stars of Burma - Supporting Freedom and democracy in Burma." //Stars of Burma//.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Nov. 2011. <http://www.starsforburma.com/>.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> "Myanmar (Burma) Human Rights" <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/countries/asia-and-the-pacific/myanmar?id=1011205

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> "Burma (Myanmar) Poverty and Wealth" <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/economies/Asia-and-the-Pacific/Burma-Myanmar-POVERTY-AND-WEALTH.html

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> "Myanmar, Republic of the Union of" <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/myanmar_statistics.html

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> "Economy" <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> http://www.networkmyanmar.org/economy

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> UNICEF "ASIA-PACIFIC Myanmar" <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> http://www.unicef.org/hac2011/hac_myanmar.php