"The Plight of Women and Children in Burma", Issue No. 1/2006, March 2006

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REPORT I: Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Fire ?Children taken away from trouble home to alien lands for sale.”: I. Situations forcing children to be trafficked: A. Immigrating into other countries as people are unable to pay taxes imposed by the government; B. Being denied right to schooling; C. Health; D. Burning up the villages and confiscating the farmland; E. Setting people to forced labor; F. Sexually harassed victims are prone to be cast into human-trafficking field; G. ?Emigrant workers, especially young women are tempted into human-trafficking to be sold off.”;II. Human-trafficker?s persuasion; III. On the way into Thailand; IV. SPDC?s response to human trafficking REPORT: II HIV/AIDS: Unsolved Problem in Burma:- I. HIV/AIDS infecting rate increasing in Burma; II. Role of civil society in prevention... ACTIVITIES: International Women?s Day celebrated on Thai-Burma border - Mon Women?s Day Joint Statement... NEWS: Mon Women?s Organization Celebrates First Mon Women?s Day...

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Women and Child Rights Project (WCRP)

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2006-03-00

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2007-05-19

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English

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