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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — In a bedroom in Malaysia that has become a prison, the 14-year-old girl wipes away tears as she sits cross-legged on the concrete floor. It is here, she says, where her ...

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 ...

Scores of underage Rohingya girls fleeing violence and starvation in their homeland of Myanmar and in the refugee camps of neighboring Bangladesh are being forced into arranged marriages with older ...