UN Women reported on a 19-year-old trafficking survivor from Myanmar who was rescued from China and returned to her village. She is now recovering with the support of a programme implemented by UN Women’s local partner, Htoi Gender and Development Foundation.
She was tricked into thinking she would work in a phone factory or shoemaking factory. When she arrived she was forced to get pregnant.
In less than a year, the programme, funded by the Government of Japan, has already trained 125 trafficking survivors, women in at-risk communities and in Internally Displaced Peoples camps and villages, imparting financial management and marketing skills, linking beneficiaries to training centers and markets.
Her story relates to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on gender equality and women’s empowerment, which has a target on ending all forms of violence against women, and SDG 16 on peace and justice, which focuses on ending abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence.
Read this survivors story at:
http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2019/1/from-where-i-stand-aung-ja
http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2019/1/from-where-i-stand-aung-ja
