(Yangon) – The Myanmar and Chinese governments have failed to stem the trafficking of ethnic Kachin women and girls as “brides” to families in China, Human Rights Watch said in a report ...

to the long-running civil war in Myanmar's Kachin state — a war in which soldiers have been repeatedly accused of raping girls and women, but rarely prosecuted. This karate class offers some ...

“Myanmar and Chinese authorities are looking away while unscrupulous traffickers are selling Kachin women and girls into captivity and unspeakable abuse,” Heather Barr, the author of the ...

International donors should fund nongovernmental groups’ efforts to help women and girls caught between Myanmar’s abuses against the Kachin and China’s war on reproductive rights. Heather Barr is ...

In a newly released report "Give Us a Baby and We’ll Let You Go": Trafficking of Kachin "Brides" from Myanmar to China, Human Rights Watch (HRW) detailed the trafficking of women and girls from ...

The young woman is from the village of Bang Hkai in Bhamo District in northern Myanmar ... the Kachin, Shan and Karen States. On October 27 some soldiers raped and murdered three young girls ...

BANGKOK — A rebel group in Myanmar’s northern state of Kachin said its troops on Thursday attacked more than 10 army outposts along the main road to the state capital of Myitkyina, increasing ...

Air strikes by Myanmar's military killed more than 60 people, including singers and musicians, attending an anniversary celebration of the Kachin ethnic minority's main political organization ...

BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military has been accused of launching an airstrike on a camp for displaced persons in the northern state of Kachin that killed about 30 people, including about a dozen ...

BANGKOK — An ethnic minority armed group that is battling Myanmar’s military government ... in a combat zone in the northern state of Kachin on Wednesday. The helicopter was shot down soon ...

to the long-running civil war in Myanmar's Kachin state - a war in which soldiers have been repeatedly accused of raping girls and women, but rarely prosecuted. This karate class offers some small ...