In China, thousands of Myanmar women are forced into childbirth
- More than 7,500 women from Myanmar were in forced marriages with Chinese men in the past five years, according to a new study
More than 7,500 women from Myanmar have gone through forced marriages with Chinese men in the past five years, a new study has found, with most coerced into bearing children with their husbands.
The slave who took on Hong Kong |
The study, which was presented in Bangkok on Friday, found that Myanmese women are increasingly at risk of trafficking, including into forced marriage.
In the past five years, about 106,000 female migrants returned from China to Myanmar. Some 5,000 returnees went through forced marriages with Chinese men and 2,800 were forced to bear a child.
Among those still living in China last year – about 65,000 women – 2,500 were in forced marriages and 2,300 were forced to have a child, the latest study shows.
There are about 34 million more men than women in China as a result of the country’s former one-child policy, fuelling bride trafficking from neighbouring countries such as Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia and North Korea.