Edith Mirante

Edith Mirante is director of Project Maje www.projectmaje.org which distributes information on Myanmar’s human rights and environmental issues, and author of The Wind in the Bamboo: Journeys in Search of Asia’s ‘Negrito’ Indigenous Peoples.

A waste of lives

The scramble for jade in Myanmar's Kachin State.

Aug 13, 2019

Coal cauldron

Will democratic Myanmar be fueled by dirty energy?

Jun 01, 2016

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