Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation

In a brand new report, Human Rights Watch (HRW) documented many instances of females and girls from Myanmar’s Kachin and northern Shan States have been trafficked and forced into intimate slavery in Asia, along with the alarming absence of police force in the problem.

“Myanmar and Chinese authorities searching for away while unscrupulous traffickers are available Kachin women and girls into captivity and unspeakable punishment,” said Acting Women’s Rights Co-Director at HRW and writer of the report Heather Barr. “The dearth of livelihoods and basic liberties defenses are making these females effortless prey for traffickers, who possess small explanation to worry police force on either part associated with the edge.”

In the last 40 years, conflict in Kachin and norther Shan states has triggered displacement that is long-term left many struggling to endure. As humanitarian help is essentially obstructed by Myanmar’s government, internally displaced individuals (IDPs) surviving in camps try not to receive food that is enough renewed fighting has forced families towards the brink of desperation.