Woman sentenced for trafficking in Myanmar

State run media in Myanmar (Burma) has sentenced a woman to 12 years in jail for trafficking two women into forced prostitution. A court in the town of Tachileik had found Nang Aye Naw, 41, guilty of selling the women into prostitution in a border town in Malaysia, after luring them with false promises of work. There is a major problem of women from poor backgrounds in Myanmar being sold to brothels in Thailand and Malaysia. Despite this example of new anti-trafficking legislation in action, brought to light by the state media, Myanmar remains a country with one of the world’s worst records on human trafficking, including state sponsored forced labour. For more on this and related stories, please visit the International Herald Tribune by clicking here.