Seven out of every 10 trafficking cases in Myanmar in 2011 "were committed solely with the intention of forcing girls and women into marriages with Chinese men" YANGON (TrustLaw) - Thazin*, a ...

(Refiles to specify in paragraph 8 that it was exiled ethnic groups attributing women’s searches for greener pastures on human rights violations in Myanmar) BANGKOK (TrustLaw) – The women from Myanmar ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Authorities in China and Myanmar are failing to stop the brutal trafficking of young women, often teenagers, from the conflict-ridden Kachin region for sexual slavery, according to a ...

Enticed by work in China, hundreds of poor young Myanmar women are instead being forced into marriage, and left to scramble to get back across remote borders before they are compelled into life with ...

China's marriage rate is in steep decline. There were 6.1 million marriage registrations nationwide in 2024, down from 7.7 million the previous year. This decline has prompted Chen Songxi, a Chinese ...

Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and in neighboring Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages with Rohingya men who frequently ...

Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and in neighboring Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages with Rohingya men who frequently ...

Hafeesa (name changed) was brought from Myanmar by an agent a couple of years ago. He assured her parents that she would get a “good job” in Malaysia. Instead, Hafeesa was married off to a much older ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than half of Rohingya Muslim girls who fled violence in western Myanmar ended up becoming child brides, according to a United Nations survey that also ...