Myint Zaw

Myint Zaw
Nationality Burmese
Occupation Journalist
Environmental activist
Awards Goldman Environment Prize

Myint Zaw is a Burmese journalist and activist.

He was awarded the 2015 Goldman Environment Prize for Asia,[1][2] for bringing forward environmental and social impacts from the planned Myitsone Dam, a large Irrawaddy River dam project that is estimated to have impacts on millions of people, and displacing about 18,000 inhabitants.[3] In 2010, he and others issued the picture album The Sketch of a River: The Ayeyarwady, and organized several exhibitions of photographs from the Irrawaddy.[4]

References

  1. Baum, Davina (19 April 2015). "The Changing Face of Myanmar: Myint Zaw's Goldman Prize–Winning Photos of a Country in Transition". Afar. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  2. "Myint Zaw wins the 2015 Goldman Environment Prize". Partners Asia. 29 April 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  3. "Earth Day Special: Goldman Prize Awarded to Burmese Photographer Who Fought Dam Project". Democracy Now!. 22 April 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  4. "Internews Partner Myint Zaw Wins Prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize". www.internews.org. Internews. Retrieved 23 October 2016.

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