Organ trafficking has spread from mainly South and Southeast Asian countries to Latin America, North America and other regions afflicted by poverty and political instability.

Human trafficking is rampant in the region as revealed by the US State Department’s 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report.

Some 120,000 stateless Rohingya have languished in camps in central Rakhine for six years since a bloody bout of violence with ethnic Rakhine Buddhists.

Victims of forced marriage suffer a range of rights violations and exposure to physical and psychological risks.

Figures from UNWomen estimates that 35 percent of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual violence at some point in their lives

Smugglers operating rickety fishing boats prey on the hopes of people who fled violence in Myanmar, charging them small fortunes for a dangerous journey to Southeast Asia.

The lucrative business of “shanghaiing” young girls to be sold and married off to Chinese men has hijacked the local custom of bride kidnapping for marriage.