Resources: Burma

Books and Articles | Films and Videos

 

Books and Articles:
Trafficking

Books and Articles:
Human Rights / Democracy


FEMALE SEXUAL SLAVERY
by Kathleen Barry. New York University Press, 1984

The book which started the debate on forced prostitution. A well researched academic work.

MIGRATING WITH HOPE
Burmese Women Working in the Sex Industry
Images Asia 1997
PO Box 2 Prasingha Post Office
Muang Chiang Mai, 50200 Thailand
Tel: 66 53 211 282 / Fax: 406 155
Email: sitthi@cm.ksc.co.th

A MODERN FORM OF SLAVERY:
Trafficking of Burmese Women and Girls into Brothels in Thailand
Human Rights Watch 1993
485 Fifth Ave,
New York, NY 10017-6104
Tel: 212 972 8400 /Fax: 212 972 0905
E-mail: hrwnyc@hrw.org
Website: www.hrw.org/reports98/publctns

A comprehensive study of Burmese girls in the Thai sex industry.

CHILD TRAFFICKING IN ASIA: ON-LINE REPORT
Defense for Children International
On-line pdf Report

ECPAT PUBLICATIONS
Website: www.rb.se/ecpat/pub_list.htm

The ECPAT Story
The Rape of the Innocent
Enforcing Laws against the commercial sexual exploitation of children
Childwise: Tourism
End Child Prostitution
Child Pornography on the Internet
1996-1997 Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
1997-1998 Moving into Action
Child Prostitution and Sex Tourism

COALITION AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN PUBLICATIONS
www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/catw/public.htm

GLOBAL ALLIANCE AGAINST TRAFFICKING PUBLICATIONS
www.inet.co.th/org/gaatw/publication.htm
or
www.inet.co.th/org/gaatw/doccen.html

GLOBAL ALLIANCE AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN:

PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ASSISTING TRAFFICKED WOMEN
Bangkok 1997
Email: GAATW@mozart.inet.co.th

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION
www.iom.int/IOM/toc.asp

Check out their homepage www.iom.int and look under "PUBLICATIONS" for more Excellent Library of articles on trafficking.

MIGRATING WITH HOPE:
Burmese Women Working in the Sex Industry in Thailand
by Images Asia
P.O. Box 2 Phrasingha Post Office
Muang Chiang Mai 50200, THAILAND
Email: sitthi@cm.ksc.co.th

OUT OF CONTROL: THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC IN BURMA
A Report on the Current Status of the Epidemic, Control Measures, and Policy Implications by the Southeast Asian Information Network
S.A.I.N.
GPO Box 217, Chiang Mai University
Chinag Mai 50200 Thailand

WAR IN THE BLOOD:
Sex, Politics and AIDS in Southeast Asia
Dr. Chris Beyrer
St. Martins Press, Scholarly and Reference Division
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
Tel: 1 800 221 7945 ext.270

WHEELING AND DEALING:
HIV and Development in the Shan State of Myanmar
HIV and Development Program, Study paper 3
304 E 45th Street, Room FF 986
New York, NY 10017
Tel: 212 906 6978 / Fax: 212 906 6336
Email: llavelle@undp.org


BURMA BEHIND THE MASK
Jan Donkers and Minka Nijhuis
Burma Centrum Nederland 1996
Paulus Potterstraat 20
1071 DA Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tel: 31 20 6716952 / Fax: 31 20 6712513
ISBN: 90 802 99 2 8

BURMA DEBATE (Periodical)
PO Box 19126,
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202 828 0110 / Fax: 202 828 0819
Email: burmad@clark.net

Burma Debate is a bi-monthly publication, providing commentary and analysis on issues concerning Burma.

BURMA NEWS UPDATE
Burma Project, Open Society Institute
4000 West 59th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Tel: 212 548 0632 / Fax: 212 548 4655
Email: burma@sorosny.org

Burma News Update is a one page news summary sent to subscribers by fax and/or Email on an occasional basis, highlighting breaking news and providing important background information.

BURMA: THE NEXT KILLING FIELDS?
Alan Clements
Odonian Press 1988,
Box 7776
Berkeley CA 94707
Tel: 510 524 3143

BURMA ISSUES
PO Box 1076 Silom Post Office
Bangkok, Thailand 10504
Tel: 66 2 234 6674 / Fax: 66 2 631 013
Email: durham@mozart.inet.th

The most comprehensive Burma information service in Thailand. Includes information on human rights. Publishes monthly newsletter BURMA ISSUES.

BURMESE LOOKING GLASS:
A Human Right Adventure and a Jungle Revolution
by Edith Mirante
www.amazon.com

ETHNIC GROUPS IN BURMA
Development, Democracy and Human Rights
Martin Smith
Anti-Slavery International, (No. 8 in ASI's Human Rights Series)
The Stableyard, Broomgrove Road
London SW9 9TL England
ISBN 0-900918-34-9

FREEDOM FROM FEAR
by Aung San Suu Kyi
London, Penguin Books, 1991

HUMAN RIGHTS YEARBOOK / BURMA 1995
National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma
NCGUB Information Office
815 Fifteenth Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202 393 7342 / Fax: 202 393 7343
Email: ncgub@igc.apc.org

INKED OVER, RIPPED OUT:
Burmese Storytellers and the Censors
Anna Allott,ed.
Silkworm Books 1994
Chiang Mai, Thailand

MYANMAR
Amnesty International Report
web.amnesty.org/library/eng-mmr/

OUT OF CONTROL
The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Burma
Southeast Asian Information Network, 1995
SAIN GPO Box 217
Chiang Mai University
Chiang Mai 50200 Thailand
Tel/Fax: 66 53 278 549

OUTRAGE: BURMA'S STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY
By Bertil Lintner
London and Bangkok
White Lotus Press, 1990

SCHOOL FOR RAPE
EarthRights International
#2012 Mass Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202 466 5188 / Fax: 202 466 5189
Email: eri@igc.org
Website: www.earthrights.org

A shocking report on the extensive and strategic rapes committed by the Burmese military.

WAR IN THE BLOOD:
Sex, Politics and AIDS in Southeast Asia
Dr. Chris Beyrer
St. Martins Press, Scholarly and Reference Division
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
Tel: 1 800 221 7945 ext.270

WHEELING AND DEALING:
HIV and Development in the Shan State of Myanmar
HIV and Development Program, Study paper 3
304 E 45th Street, Room FF 986
New York, NY 10017
Tel: 212 906 6978 / Fax: 212 906 6336
Email: llavelle@undp.org

 

Films and Videos:
Trafficking


SACRIFICE
The Story of Child Prostitutes from Burma
Produced and Directed by Ellen Bruno
Transit Media
P.O. Box 1084
190 Route 17M
Harriman, NY 10926
Tel: 800-343-5540 / Fax: 845-774-2945
Website: www.brunofilms.com

SACRIFICE examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution. It is the story of the valuation and sale of human beings, and the efforts of teenage girls to survive a crisis born of economic and political repression.

Each year thousands of girls are recruited from Burmese villages to work in Thai brothels. Held for years in debt bondage, they suffer extreme abuse by pimps, clients, and police.

The trafficking of Burmese girls has soared in recent years as a direct result of political repression in Burma. Human rights abuses, war, and ethnic discrimination has displaced thousands of families, leaving families with no means of livelihood. An offer of employment in Thailand is a rare chance for many families to escape extreme poverty.

THE SELLING OF INNOCENTS
Produced by maloflm, Toronto, Canada
Tel: 416 480 0453 x 551
Email: reunion@interlog.com

The story of child slavery, this film takes viewers into Asia's largest AC0000-light districts - to brothels, prions and police raids. Focuses largely on the Nepal-India pipeline.

Films and Videos:
Human Rights / General Info


BEYOND RANGOON
Available at your local video shop.

BURMA DIARYProduced and Directed by Jeanne Hallacy
14/1 Soi Promsi
Suhumit Soi 39, Prakhanong
Bangkok,10110
Tel/ Fax: (00662) 391 0276
Email: st-vista@dds.nl

THE HEROIN WARS
by Adrian Cowell and Chris Menges
for distribution information visit:
www.soros.org/burma/crisis/drugs.hmtl

INSIDE BURMA: LAND OF FEAR
Produced by David Monroe
Bullfrog Films,
PO Box 149,
Oley, PA 19547
Tel: 800 543 3764 / Fax: 610 370 1978
Email: bullfrog@igc.org
Website: www.bullfrogfilms.com

SACRIFICE
The Story of Child Prostitutes from Burma
Produced and Directed by Ellen Bruno
Transit Media,
P.O. Box 1084
190 Route 17M
Harriman, NY 10926
Tel: 800-343-5540 / Fax: 845-774-2945
Website: www.brunofilms.com

SACRIFICE examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution. It is the story of the valuation and sale of human beings, and the efforts of teenage girls to survive a crisis born of economic and political repression.

Each year thousands of girls are recruited from Burmese villages to work in Thai brothels. Held for years in debt bondage, they suffer extreme abuse by pimps, clients, and police.

The trafficking of Burmese girls has soared in recent years as a direct result of political repression in Burma. Human rights abuses, war, and ethnic discrimination has displaced thousands of families, leaving families with no means of livelihood. An offer of employment in Thailand is a rare chance for many families to escape extreme poverty.