United Nations’ special envoy and Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie along with Aung San Suu Kyi, , a Burmese opposition politician met the garment factory workers, largely women workforce, in Hlaing Tha Yar, a town on the western outskirts of the city. The two talked to the workers about their living and working conditions as well as their aspirations for further education.
Jolie on her four-day tour was in Myanmar at the invitation of Suu Kyi, according to the British Embassy, which is working with Jolie as part of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative that promotes prosecutions of sexual violence perpetrators.
