Cheery Zahau is a Chin human rights activist, women's right activist, feminist, politician, writer, development and peace in Burma and based in India and Thailand.
18 Facts About Cheery Zahau
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Cheery Zahau is the founder and leader of the Women's League of Chinland.
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Cheery Zahau was born in 1981 in Kalaymyo, Sagaing Region to ethnic Chin parents.
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Cheery Zahau finished high school in her hometown, Kalaymyo then fled to India where she studied high school again.
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Cheery Zahau continues her distance undergraduate studies at Thompson Rivers University Open Learning and studied for one year for a graduate degree at Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University.
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Cheery Zahau is a mother of two children - a daughter and a son.
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Cheery Zahau left Burma in 1999 when she was 17 and settled in India and joined the Chin women's group operating in Mizoram, along the India-Burma border.
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Cheery Zahau started volunteering with the Chin Women Organisation, on the India-Burma border since 1999, teaching Chin and Burmese language to Chin children who were born or growing up in Mizoram.
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Cheery Zahau met with political leaders from Burma and other countries.
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Cheery Zahau coordinated two major reports to UN UPR, UN CRC and contributed to UN CEDAW shadow reports.
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Cheery Zahau has testified at the United Nations, British Parliament, United States congressional hearing and other governments on human rights situation in Chin State and Burma.
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Cheery Zahau relocated to Chiang Mai, Thailand, she began working as an advocacy officer at the Human Rights Education Institute of Burma, focusing on the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the ASEAN human rights process.
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Cheery Zahau is a management board member of the Network for Human Rights Documentation in Burma and is pursuing an advanced degree in international relations.
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Cheery Zahau has trained hundreds of people on human rights and women's human rights over the past 15 years.
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Cheery Zahau gives human rights training and education and women's human rights over the past 15 years.
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Cheery Zahau is Country Program Director at the Project 2049 Institute and UN HRC Representative of Persons of Concern Myanmar.
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Cheery Zahau is one of five women candidates from the Chin Progressive Party.
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Cheery Zahau is awarded 2018 Schuman Human Rights Award by European Union Myanmar Delegation and awarded by UNDP for N-Peace Award 2017.