Aung Myo Min

Aung Myo Min

"Executive director of the Human Rights Education Institute of Burma, is a 1993 graduate of the Human Rights Advocate Program at Columbia University. He is the first openly gay man among the democratic movement of Burma and has received numerous international awards for his human rights work and lesbigay work, including the 1999 Felipa De Souza award by the IGLHRC and Honour of Courage award from the San Francisco City Board. He has been integrating LGBT rights into the mainstream human rights through HRE awareness activities and involving in the drafting process of the future constitution of Burma." 

"He was the Director of the Human Rights Documentation Unit of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma. He is currently the country consultant of the Amnesty International & Southeast Asia Regional Convenor of Child Rights." 


 * Consultant, South East Asia Popular Communications Programme