Why Canada should sustain its COVID-19 aid to Myanmar through the border areas

Myanmar’s COVID-19 response, testing coverage, and distribution of protective equipment and assistance is sorely lacking in the country’s war-torn border areas of Indigenous communities.

USAID's Advancing Community Empowerment project, implemented by PACT, provides hygiene kits to isolated communities, including in Kayin and Mon states, in August. Cross-border aid is instrumental in saving women’s lives, a goal of Canada’s feminist foreign policy, writes Stella Naw. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/USaidinmyanmar

Opinion

BY STELLA NAW

November 9, 2020

If Canada were to end its direct funding to Indigenous civil societies working in areas outside of the Myanmar government control, it would have an enormous impact on Indigenous communities served by Canada’s life-saving assistance. The way COVID-19 support to Myanmar—including to the 600,000 R...

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