Charm Tong is still only in her twenties yet she is already a leading Burmese human rights activist. She comes from the Shan community, one of the ethnic minority groups which are particularly being targeted by the Burmese military regime. She has had to live in a refugee base on the Thai-Burma border since she was a child. When Tong was 17, she and a number of other refugees established the Shan Women's Action Network, an organisation dedicated to stopping violence against women and children.
This week Tong has been over in the UK to raise awareness of what she describes as the systematic rape of women by the Burmese military. Tong will be joining Martha Kearney to talk about her Stop Licence to Rape campaign.
