“The most powerful political activist for Burma living in Britain" The Daily Telegraph

A unique opportunity to dialogue with one of the world’s leading campaigners for human rights and democracy in Burma, 30 year-old author, TED fellow and exiled activist Zoya Phan.

Aged just 14, Zoya Phan was forced to escape Burma during the military regime’s brutal offensive against the Karen people. She spent her teenage years in refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border before coming to England in 2005 to study.

The daughter of ...the General Secretary of the Karen National Union, Zoya was politically active at an early age, and soon joined the staff of the UK Burma Campaign where she became the movement’s outspoken advocate for greater international pressure and sanctions on the Burmese regime: a message she has taken to Downing Street and the airwaves with gusto.

In 2009, Zoya published her memoir of Burma, Little Daughter, and was in the same year awarded an honorary TED fellowship and Young Global Leader Award by the World Economic Forum.

Buy a joint ticket for Zoya Phan in Conversation and Nargis: When Time Stopped Breathing for just £10 (£8 concessions) when booked together by phone or in person.

 

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Key themes: democracy/political systems, empowerment/activism, human rights
Strand: Land and Freedom   Faces of Change  

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