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Suu Kyi receives UNESCO award

YANGON, Myanmar - Ryuhei Hosoya (L), executive director of the Office of the UNESCO Director General, hands a trophy to Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi in Yangon on Feb. 10, 2012. Suu Kyi was chosen as the 2002 winner of the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence, but had been unable to receive the award as she had been under house arrest on and off from 1989 to 2010.

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Suu Kyi's "soft dictatorship," one year after Myanmar's election

National League for Democracy and women's rights campaigner Khin Lay speaks to Kyodo News in Yangon, Myanmar on Oct. 27, 2016. Speaking about the first year since the country's historic general election on Nov. 8, 2015, Khin Lay said the new government, led by Aung Sang Suu Kyi, had seemed unwilling to listen to local people, preferring advice from the international community. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Suu Kyi receives UNESCO award

YANGON, Myanmar - Ryuhei Hosoya (L), executive director of the Office of the UNESCO Director General, hands a trophy to Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi in Yangon on Feb. 10, 2012. Suu Kyi was chosen as the 2002 winner of the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence, but had been unable to receive the award as she had been under house arrest on and off from 1989 to 2010. (Kyodo)