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Stolen Live (Human trafficking from Palaung areas of Burma to China)

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 […]

Poisoned Hills (Opium cul va on surges under government control in Burma)

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 […]