Celebrations are under way in Myanmar as Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) are emerging victorious in a national election that is being described as a “dawn of a new era”.

On May 23, 2015, the Law for Health Care Relating to Control of Population Growth (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law 28/2015), which allows authorities the power to implement ‘birth spacing’, was signed by the President of Myanmar, Thein Sein. This is one of four pieces of legislation that together make up the ‘Protection of Race and Religion Laws’, a package of bills reported to have been driven by nationalist Buddhist monks with an anti-Muslim agenda.