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SUMMARY:Photo Exhibition "Endless Escape: Fleeing Myanmar to Thailand”
DESCRIPTION:Since the coup d’état led by General Min Aung Hlaing in February 2021\, many have been displaced within Myanmar and across borders. Hostilities and armed conflict in Myanmar\, especially Chin State\, Sagaing and Magway Regions in northwestern; Karen and Karenni (Kayah) States in southeast\, have forced a considerable number of people to flee. According to the UN\, in a year and half at least 986\,000 people have been newly displaced internally\, adding to the 370\,000 who had previously left their homes. An additional 47\,200 are estimated to have crossed over to neighboring countries or settled along the border. \nAs of February 2022\, the Thai government estimated that 17\,000 Myanmar refugees had crossed into Thailand. These can be broadly defined into two groups: internally displaced villagers in bordering states seeking temporary refuge due to intensified conflict; and CDM protestors and high-profile individuals seeking longer-term refuge\, whether in Thailand or third countries. The photo exhibition “Endless Escape: Fleeing Myanmar to Thailand” to be held by SEA Junction in collaboration with Asia Democracy Network at BACC (Curved Wall\, 4th floor) focuses on the first group. Aung Naing Soe\, Visual Rebellion\, Yan Naing Aung and Zin Koko capture the cross-over into Thailand and the settling along the 1500 km porous borders when fighting and airstrikes became particularly intense such as in December 2021 and March 2022. \nFew photos also show Mae La\, the largest refugee camp of the nine along the Thai-Myanmar border that was established in 1984 to remind us of the “endless escape” of Myanmar people from violence and the plight of new generations growing up in camps excluded from the wider society. \nRealizing this hopefully encourage us to do more to sustain a democratic Myanmar and to integrate displaced peoples and refugees in our midst. On the short term the extensive humanitarian needs of people in temporary settlements along the border including access to safe drinking water\, medicine\, and sanitation facilities ought to be met. \nThe exhibition will open on 4 October\, but be officially launched on 8 October\, 5.00-6.30 pm at SEA Junction to allow most of the photographers to attend. More details on the agenda will be announced soon. \n  \n \nPhotographers: \nAung Naing Soe\, a Yangon born multimedia freelancer who is now primarily working as a documentary producer and photojournalist for different international outlets. He initially started working as a fixer for foreign correspondent since 2012\, and he was one of the five finalists of 2017 Global News Fixer Awards at Kurt Shock Memorial Fund. He received Hubert Humphrey Fellowship of Media and Communication at Arizona State University where he studied for a year and worked for the US based media organizations including Vice News. He returned back home in the late 2020 to cover the General Election of Myanmar. Unprecedentedly\, he eye-witnessed the Myanmar military coup in 2021 that he covered on the ground until April 2021. Since then\, he is based abroad and covers Myanmar stories along the border and remotely. His works have been published in Vice News\, Washington Post\, The Guardian\, etc. For more info\, see www.aungnaingsoe.com. \nYan Naing Aung is a freelance photojournalist in Yangon\, Myanmar\, covering Burma Coup\, the Covid-19 crisis\, General Election 2020\, current affairs\, and politics. Currently exiled in Thailand. He has done work as a photojournalist for Nikkei Asia Review\, AP Images\, Anadolu Images\, Transcontinental Times\, Vice\, DW and others; and as a videographer for some foreign TV channels Initially\, he started his carrier as a fixer\, journalist\, and photographer. \nVisual Rebellion is a collective for Burmese journalists\, photographers\, filmmakers and artists founded in the aftermath of the February 1st\, 2021 coup d’État. As a war on information and ideology is raging in the country\, the aim is to provide Burmese creators with the necessary resources to keep producing high-value verified content on what is happening in and about Myanmar. Based in Thailand and Myanmar\, members of the team produce features\, documentaries and research reports from the ground as well as photo-exhibitions. For this exhibition pictures were taken by Laure Siegel (Mae La Camp and informal settlements along the river) Thomas Lynn and a single photo of Mae La Camp by Guillaume Payen / SOPA Images. For more info\, see https://visualrebellion.org/. \nZin Koko is a freelance photographer\, currently based in Thailand. His work has been published in local news and international outlets such as Reuters\, Vice and others. He is also a filmmaker and open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigator. \nOrganizers: \nSEA Junction\, established under the Thai non-profit organization Foundation for Southeast Asia Studies (ForSEA)\, aims to foster understanding and appreciation of Southeast Asia in all its socio-cultural dimensions- from arts and lifestyles to economy and development. Conveniently located at Room 408 of the Bangkok Arts and Culture Center or BACC (across MBK\, BTS National Stadium)\, SEA Junction facilitates public access to knowledge resources and exchanges among students\, practitioners and Southeast Asia lovers. For more information see www.seajunction.org\, join the Facebook group:  http://www.facebook.com/groups/1693058870976440/ and follow us on twitter and Instagram @seajunction \nAsia Democracy Network (ADN) is active in more than 40 countries in Asia. Our core values are to promote and practice the principles of democracy through the development of inclusive governance\, advancement of human rights\, equality and inclusivity\, prevention of discrimination\, human security\, promotion of free\, fair and meaningful elections\, democracy education\, & press freedom and responsibility. For more information\, see https://adnasia.org/. \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/photo-exhibition-endless-escape-fleeing-myanmar-to-thailand/
LOCATION:SEA Junction\, 4th floor\, BACC
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SUMMARY:Vietnamese Women Migrating for Work to Europe
DESCRIPTION:SEA Junction and the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) are organizing a knowledge sharing and evidence-based advocacy for socio-economic inclusion of migrant and trafficked women from Southeast Asia to Europe: both those who currently live in Europe and those who have returned to their home countries. To achieve the objective of promoting rights-affirming labour migration policies and anti-trafficking measures on these migration routes\, we are holding a series of six-monthly webinars with the title “Towards Safe Southeast Asia-Europe Migration Corridors”\, which will look at current and emerging challenges and possible policy solutions. \nIn the first event\, Maruja M.B. Asis\, Director of Research and Publications at the Scalabrini Migration Center gave an overview of migration from Southeast Asia and\, in the second event\, Khuat Thu Hong and Nguyen Song Bao Anh provided an overview of Vietnamese women migrating for work overseas. In this third event\, we continue from the previous one and focus on the migration of Vietnamese women to Europe in particular. Khuat Thu Hong and Ha Hoang Yen of the Institute for Social Development Studies (ISDS) will present departure country perspectives\, while Mariko Hayashi and Joanna Garnier respectively of the Southeast and East Asian Centre (SEEAC) and La Strada Foundation will present destination country perspectives. \nThe event will be held on 31 October 2022 at 4.00-5.30 pm (Bangkok Time) on Zoom (Link: http://bit.ly/SEA-EUROPE-MIGRATION) and Facebook Live: SEA-Junction and GAATW page. After the presentation\, a Q & A session will follow moderated by Rosalia Sciortino\, Founding Director of SEA Junction. \n \nSpeakers’ Profiles \nKhuat Thu Hong is the founder and Director of the Institute for Social Development Studies (ISDS)\, an independent research organization located in Hanoi\, Vietnam. She has a B.A. in psychology in 1984 and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1997. Before founding ISDS\, she worked for the Institute of Sociology\, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences for sixteen years and for UNDP as the gender specialist from March 2000 to May 2001.  Her major fields of studies include gender\, sexuality and social inclusion. Khuat Thu Hong is a regular guest of national and international television and radio such as VTV\, VOV\, BBC\, NHK\, VOA and RFA and is frequently interviewed by national and international newspapers on gender and social issues in Vietnam. \nHa Hoang Yen is currently a lecturer at the Faculty of International Studies\, Hanoi University (Vietnam). She received her MA in Social Foundations of Education from Eastern Michigan University (USA) and PhD from Monash University (Australia) under the Australia Awards scheme. Yen’s doctoral research focused on rural to urban migration experiences of LGBTIQ+ youth in Vietnam. Yen teaches courses on Gender and Development\, Sociology and Field Research while her research interests lie in the area of gender and sexual identity\, youth and development issues\, particularly\, migration. Yen also works with local and international NGOs conducting research and intervention programs toward empowerment and social inclusion of different groups among which are ethnic minority groups\, migrant women\, people with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups. \nMariko Hayashi is the Executive Director of Southeast and East Asian Centre (SEEAC)\, a grass-roots organisation by and for migrants\, refugees and people seeking asylum from Southeast and East Asia living in the UK. She also works as a freelance consultant and project coordinator working with NGOs in Asia-Pacific and the UK focusing on human rights\, labour and migration. Mariko is one of the co-founders of BEBESEA\, as well as a trustee of Kanlungan Filipino Consortium and Protection Approaches. \nJoanna Garnier is the Co-director of the La Strada Foundation\, responsible for preventive measures and publications fighting human slavery. In the Foundation she runs educational projects\, trains teachers and educators as well as dealing with preparation to reduce risk before travelling abroad. \nOrganizers  \nSEA Junction \nSEA Junction\, established under the Thai non-profit organization Foundation for Southeast Asia Studies (ForSEA)\, aims to foster understanding and appreciation of Southeast Asia in all its socio-cultural dimensions- from arts and lifestyles to economy and development. Conveniently located at Room 408 of the Bangkok Arts and Culture Center or BACC (across MBK\, BTS National Stadium)\, SEA Junction facilitates public access to knowledge resources and exchanges among students\, practitioners and Southeast Asia lovers. For more information see www.seajunction.org\, join the Facebook group:  http://www.facebook.com/groups/1693058870976440/ and follow us on twitter and Instagram @seajunction \nGlobal Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) \nThe GAATW is a network of more than 80 non-governmental organizations from all regions of the world that fight against trafficking in persons. GAATW is committed to work for changes in the political\, economic\, social\, and legal systems and structures which contribute to the persistence of trafficking in persons and other human rights violations in the context of migratory movements for diverse purposes\, including security of labour and livelihood. For more information\, see https://gaatw.org/. \n
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