Poisoned flowers
by Daniel Pedersen on Jan.31, 2010, under Frontline Reports
The impacts of spiralling drug addiction on Palaung women in Burma
The Palaung Women’s Organisation
Northern Shan State, BurmaJanuary 31, 2010
Once renowed throughout Burma as prosperous tea farmers, the Palaung in northern Shan State are increasingly succumbing to high rates of drug addiction. The addiction is devasting Palaung communities, with particularly harsh consequences for women, for whom the addiction of husbands and sons compounds the existing burdens of severe gender discrimition >>> Poisoned flowers
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