Myanmar women forced into marriage

A trafficked girl. Photo: AFP
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24 December 2019
Girls caught in the cross-hairs of the trade
(File) This photo taken on June 30, 2016 shows Mar Tuu holding a photograph of her sister Kyi Pyar Soe on the outskirts of Yangon. Enticed by work in China, hundreds of poor young Myanmar women are instead being duped into marriage, and left to scramble to get back across remote borders before they are forced into life with husbands they have never met. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
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23 December 2019
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08 December 2018
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