Title: Nowhere Else To Go: An examination of sexual trafficking and related human rights abuses in Southern Burma
Organisation: Human Rights Foundation of Monland
Date: August 2009
This report documents sexual trafficking and human rights abuses committed against Burmese women and children from 19 townships in Mon State, Karen State, Tenasserim Division, Pegu Division, Rangoon Division and Mandalay Division.
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Title: In the Shadow of the Junta: CEDAW Shadow Report
Organisation: Women's League of Burma
Date: 2008
This is a shadow report by the Women's League of Burma on the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, in response to the Burmese regime's report. The report asserts that, 'There is no evidence in its 2007 report that the [regime] understands the definition of gender discrimination and the purpose of the CEDAW'.
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Title: Eastward Bound: An update on migration and trafficking of Kachin women on the China-Burma border
Organisation: Kachin Women's Association Thailand
Date: August 2008
This report is an update to the report 'Driven Away' (see below). It documents verified and suspected trafficking cases, involving both women and girls, who are often transported to China as forced brides.
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Title: State of Terror: The ongoing rape, murder, torture and forced labour suffered by women living under the Burmese Military Regime in Karen State
Organisation: Karen Women's Organization
Date: February 2007
This report documents the range of human rights abuses perpetrated across Karen State as part of the Burmese regime's campaign of terror. It focuses in particular on the abuses experienced by women and girls and draws on over 4000 documented cases. These case studies provide evidence of the widespread abuses perpetrated against the civilian population of Karen State by the regime.
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Title: Courage to Resist: Women Human Rights Defenders of Burma
Organisation: Women's League of Burma
Date: November 2007
This report documents the dangers faced by women human rights defenders in Burma, who risk rape and sexual assault in custody, on top of the risk of arbitrary arrest, detention and torture, faced by all human rights defenders in Burma.
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Title: Unsafe State: State-sanctioned sexual violence against Chin Women in Burma
Organisation: Women's League of Chinland
Date: March 2007
This report documents 38 cases of sexual violence committed by the Burmese army in Chin State in western Burma. Due to social stigma and fear of further violence, few survivors disclose cases of sexual abuse, so these cases undoubtedly represent only a small proportion of the actual total.
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Title: Dignity in the Shadow of Oppression: The abuse and agency of Karen women under militarisation
Organisation: Karen Human Rights Group
Date: November 2006
This report is based on the firsthand testimony of Karen women and other villagers (both displaced and those still living in their villages), and refugees and migrant workers in Thailand. It covers a broader range of human rights abuses against Karen women than the cases of sexual violence usually documented.
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Title: Driven Away: Trafficking of Kachin women on the China-Burma border
Organisation: Kachin Women's Association Thailand
Date: May 2005
This report documents cases of women and girls who were trafficked from Kachin and Shan States and sold as brides in China or forced into the Chinese or Burmese six industries.
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Title: Shattering Silences: Karen Women speak about the Burmese Military Regime's use of Rape as a strategy of War in Karen State
Organisation: Karen Women's Organization
Date: April 2004
This report documents the widespread and systematic rape being committed by the Burmese army against Karen women. Most of these incidents have been committed with impunity, creating a climate of fear for Karen women in Burma.
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Title: No Safe Place: Burma's Army and the Rape of Ethnic Women
Organisation: Refugees International
Date: March 2003
This report summarizes accounts of the sexual violence committed by Burma’s armed forces against women of the Karen, Karenni, Mon, Shan, and Tavoyan communities. It is based on interviews with individuals and focus groups of people living in refugee camps and in villages in Thailand, as well as people still living inside Burma.
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Title: Licensed to Rape: The Burmese Military Regime's use of sexual violence in the ongoing war in Shan State
Organisations: Shan Human Rights Foundation and Shan Women's Action Network
Date: May 2002
This report details 173 incidents of rape and other forms of sexual violence, involving 625
girls and women, committed by Burmese army troops in Shan State. It reveals that the Burmese military regime is allowing its troops systematically to commit rape with impunity in order to terrorize and subjugate the ethnic peoples of Shan State.
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Title: School for Rape: The Burmese Military and Sexual Violence in the ongoing war in Shan State
Author: Betsy Apple
Organisations: Earth Rights International
Date: February 1998
This report seeks to make visible the structural origins of the rape of ethnic Burmese women, with particular attention to the institution that nurtures the rapists, the Burmese army. The report is based on original interviews with defectors from the Burmese army and villagers who lived in close proximity to the army. This report looks for the root cause of rape, so as to advocate for institutional change, establish individual culpability and argue for individual punishment.
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