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listed her as one of “Burma’s News Makers 2011”. She has trained hundreds of people on human rights and women's human rights over the past 15 years. She is also the author of several qualitative research reports on Women's Access to
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along with other Chin delegates, and that was the first time the Chin political activists were speaking at the parliament. During this trip, she met about 20 British parliamentary members,
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