The Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) “Sold to China” investigation from 2019-23, which included interviews with 187 survivors, documented that the number of human trafficking survivors from Myanmar has risen dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic with women being sold by their families to Chinese men from as far as Yangon.
“Typically, we handled 50 to 80 cases annually, but in 2019, this surged to around 150. The true number of affected women is likely much higher,” a KWAT spokesperson told DVB on the condition of anonymity.
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