(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 ...

And if the Myanmar and Chinese governments have ... The nexus between the conflict in Kachin State and the trafficking of Kachin women and girls to China has been well documented by the Kachin ...

All three police forces in the region should do more to prevent trafficking, recover and assist victims, and pursue both the traffickers and the buyers. International donors should fund ...

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 the ...

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 — A helicopter belonging to Myanmar’s military crashed in a combat zone in the country’s north while returning from a mission to deliver supplies to army outposts, a state-run ...

The Myanmar and Chinese governments have failed to stem the trafficking of ethnic Kachin women and girls as “brides” to families in China. Trafficking survivors said that trusted people ...

JE YANG, Myanmar (AP) — Every afternoon, dozens of teenage girls at the school for displaced children line up on the grounds, dressed in white uniforms with belts of various colors: yellow, blue ...

In this Nov. 29, 2016, photo, 16-year-old Hkawn Ra, joins the karate training for self-defense in Jeyang village IDP camp, near China border in Kachin State, Myanmar. Forced from their homes and ...