HUMAN TRAFFICKING ON CHINA BORDER CAN ONLY BE ADDRESSED BY ENDING BURMA ARMY OFFENSIVES AND WAR CRIMES

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"On Myanmar?s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Day, KWAT urges Burma?s government and the international community to recognize that without an end to Burma Army offensives and war crimes, the problem of human trafficking along the China border will never be solved. KWAT has been assisting survivors of human trafficking for the past fifteen years, most of whom have been trafficked to China ? some as far as east as the North Korean border. Most have been forced to marry and bear children for Chinese men, with others forced into sex work. In this year alone, KWAT has already assisted about one hundred women who were trafficked to China, while we have learned of many others who have disappeared. Without knowing Chinese, and without legal papers, trafficked women face huge obstacles to return home..."

Source/publisher: 

Kachin Women?s Association Thailand

Date of Publication: 

2018-09-13

Date of entry: 

2018-09-26

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Language: 

English