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WEAVE Celebrates 18 Years of Service to Refugee Women and Children

16 September, 2008 (13:46) | News | By: Mitos Urgel

WEAVE’s work began in 1990- eighteen years ago this year.
1990. Two years after the student uprising in Burma. The military junta consolidated its powers and closed its door to the international community. Massive human rights violations were grossly committed which resulted to the continued fleeing of the pro-democracy movement activists to the bordering countries. [...]