Burmese Women’s Union (BWU) was founded in 1995, in the Thai-Burma Border with a group of young female students who had left the country after the Burma’s military government cracked down on the popular pro-democracy movement 1988. In the same year, membership extended to the China-Burma, India-Burma borders and abroad such as Canada, US, Japan and Australia. BWU’s main goals are to increase the number of active women within the pro-democracy movement; to raise awareness about women’s human rights; to support women of Burma living abroad through education, empowerment and/or satisfying emergency needs.