[4] Cheery Zahau left Burma in 1999 when she was 17 and settled in India and joined the Chin women's group operating in Mizoram, along the India-Burma border.
She is a major author for “Unsafe State” report with the first-hand research on systemic sexual violence against Chin women committed by the government military troops.
During this trip, she met about 20 British parliamentary members, European Union, high level officials at State Department.
She is also a management board member of the Network for Human Rights Documentation in Burma and is pursuing an advanced degree in international relations.
She is also the author of several qualitative research reports on Women's Access to Justice in Plural Legal System in Burma, LGBT rights and the Rule of Law, Youth Movement Assessment, Women's Security and Peace, Sexual violence and minor rape, and service provisions in Burma, among others.
In the 2015 election, she contesting for House of Representatives seat from Falam township constituency, Chin State, but lost to Salai Ranbai, a National League for Democracy Party candidate.