Introduction In 2006, PWO released its Poisoned Flowers report detailing the impacts of spiralling drug addiction on Palaung women in Burma’s northern Shan State. After the publication of Poisoned Flowers, the situation in the Palaung community deteriorated further. PWO began researching the surge in opium cultivation in regime-controlled areas of Burma, releasing our Poisoned Hills […]
Opium cultivation surging in constituency of Burma’s new ruling party October-25- 2011 A new briefing paper by the Palaung Women’s Organization (PWO) exposes a dramatic increase in opium cultivation in Burma’s northern Shan State in the constituency of a drug lord elected into the new military-backed parliament. Still Poisoned, a follow-up to PWO’s 2010 Poisoned […]
The Palaung Women’s Organization (PWO) has documented 72 cases of actual or suspected trafficking involving 110 people, which took place along the China-Burma border, mostly during the past six years. The majority of those trafficked were young Palaung women from tea farming communities in Namkham, Namhsan and Mantong townships. PWO surveys in villages from which […]
Community assessments by the Palaung Women’s Organisation during the past two years reveal that the amount of opium being cultivated in Burma’s northern Shan State has been increasing dramatically. The amounts are far higher than reported in the annual opium surveys of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and are flourish- ing […]