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The United States on Thursday placed Burma on its list of worst offenders of human trafficking and accused it of using child soldiers amid global criticism over human rights abuses by the country’s military against the minority Rohingya Muslims.
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The United States places China on its global list of the worst offenders in human trafficking, while Burma is upgraded to the Tier 2 Watch List of nations deserving special scrutiny, from Tier 3, which includes countries not complying with minimum US standards and making no significant effort to do so.
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Burma now ranks with Uzbekistan, Sudan and Haiti at the bottom of a list of nations criticised by the US government for failing to do enough to end human trafficking.
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The US State Department plans to downgrade Burma in its annual report on human trafficking because of the country’s continuing failure to end abusive practices.
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The trial of 92 suspected human traffickers, arrested after the discovery of shallow graves of migrants in Thai jungle, began in Bangkok on Tuesday.
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A group of locals in Thailand’s Phang Nga province have armed themselves, to track down traffickers and free their human cargo.
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The United States has waived sanctions against Thailand that could have been imposed as a result of the country’s insufficient efforts to combat human trafficking.
Anti-human trafficking police have arrested a Burmese man for forcing children from Burma to sell flowers to tourists on Khao San Road in Bangkok.
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One hundred and two cases of human trafficking were reported in Burma throughout 2013, according to the Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force (ATTF), a special unit of the Burmese police force.
Thai authorities in the last week have rounded up three leading members of a Burmese human trafficking gang responsible for selling hundreds of their fellow countrymen into slavery and murdering dozens of people
Human trafficking remains a significant problem in both Burma and Thailand, where the stateless Rohingya minority has become particularly vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, a leading US report has warned
A Thai human rights legal expert accused some officials of being involved in human trafficking, following raids to rescue more than 700 Rohingya Muslims from a warehouse and a rubber[…]
Grammy award-winning singer Jaosn Mraz performed in Rangoon’s People’s Park on Sunday in front of thousands. The concert was organised by MTV EXIT to raise awareness and increase prevention of[…]
The Burmese government has failed to take adequate steps to address human trafficking, especially in conflict-affected territories such as Kachin state, despite making progress in some areas
130 cases of trafficking of ethnic Kachin to China documented in past year as monitoring group rues poverty and lack of education
Sept 17, 2009 (DVB), Burma has been named as one of six countries that will receive funding from the Australian government to tackle human trafficking, Canberra announced on Tuesday. More[…]
July 21, 2009 (DVB), Malaysian authorities have arrested nine people for their role in an international trafficking syndicate that involved the sale of Rohingya refugees from Burma, a top officer[…]
June 17, 2009 (DVB), Human trafficking within Burma remains "significant", whilst trafficking of young women into forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation is a "major problem", according to a US[…]
Mar 19, 2009 (DVB), A job seekers' agent was illegally detained and threatened with a charge of human trafficking by local village authorities in Bago division who extorted money from[…]
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More than a third of migrant fishermen in Thailand clearly were victims of trafficking over the past five years and even more workers in the industry were possibly trafficked as well, according to a report published on Thursday.
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More needs to be done to ensure that human traffickers are brought to justice and Rohingya migrants are protected, rights groups said on Thursday, after a trial in which 62 people were convicted of crimes including trafficking and murder.
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A judge handing down verdicts in Thailand’s biggest human trafficking trial on Wednesday had announced 21 guilty verdicts by mid-morning from 103 defendants, with judgments expected to last late into the day.
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Southeast Asian governments’ efforts to stop women from going abroad for domestic work are putting their citizens at greater risk of becoming victims of trafficking and exploitation, the United Nations warned.
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Thailand’s Criminal Court has set 19 July for handing down a verdict on the alleged trafficking of Rohingya migrants in a case that involves 103 suspects including a senior Thai army officer and former politicians.
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New software for police could revolutionise the fight against human trafficking in northeast India and speed up cross-border investigations with Bangladesh and Burma, its creators said.
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Two other defendants in the case were found guilty of illegally bringing aliens into Thailand and sentenced to a year in prison.
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A Burmese man has been arrested in southern Thailand’s Songkhla Province for trafficking fellow Burmese workers to work in the fishery industry.
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Only a coordinated effort among the region’s countries will have a lasting impact on human trafficking in Southeast Asia.
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Burma’s government expresses concern that a US State Department decision to downgrade the country’s status in an annual report on human trafficking could hamper bilateral relations.
