Facts
Human trafficking is a 31.6 billion dollar industry
1.2 million children are trafficked every year
43 percent of trafficked children are used for prostitution
56 percent of trafficked victims come from Asia and the Pacific
Burma is a major provider of children into the trafficking industry
Boys are heavily undereported statistic of sex trafficking due to social stigmas (ECPAT International)

The Situation
Burma is a source and transit country for human trafficking, while Thailand is a gateway for the rest of the world.

Source
Burmese men, women, and children are trafficked for sexual and labor exploitation in Thailand, the People’s Republic of China, Malaysia, Bangladesh, South Korea, Macau, and Pakistan.¹  Children are trafficked to Thailand for forced labor as beggars. In 2005, the Kachin Women’s Association of Thailand reported that Kachin women and girls trafficked to China were forced into prostitution or to become brides to Chinese men. While there are no reliable estimates on the number of Burmese who are trafficked, most observers believe that the number of victims is at least several thousand per year.   

Transit
Burma is a transit country for victims trafficked from China to Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.  There are also reports of Bangladeshis trafficked through Burma destined for Malaysia and Chinese trafficked through Burma to Thailand. 

Internal Trafficking
Burma has internal trafficking from rural areas to border areas with China and Thailand, particularly areas with trucking routes, mining areas, military bases, fishing villages, and military camps.   Children are trafficked internally for forced labor in agriculture and small-scale industries or as child soldiers.

Causes
There are many causes of human trafficking in Burma. The military junta’s gross economic mismanagement, human rights abuses, and its policy of using forced labor are the top causal factors for Burma’s significant trafficking problem. The official ban on overland emigration of most young women drives some seeking to leave the country into the hands of “travel facilitators,” who may have ties with traffickers.  The lacks of job opportunities and higher incomes have also pushed Burmese to migrate into one of its five neighboring countries. This situation has created an opportunity for traffickers to lure the victims to other countries with false premises.

The Burmese Government
The Burmese Government was placed in Tier 3 in the 2007 U.S. Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Report for not fully complying with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and not making significant efforts to do so.

There are reports of military and civilian government officials who are complicit in trafficking children to serve as child soldiers.⁸  NGOs also reported that individual police officials extort money from economic migrants and others leaving the country.⁹   During 2006, the Burmese government did not take action against military or civilian officials who engaged in forced labor.¹⁰ 

sources:
http://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/issues_doc/labour/Forced_labour/HUMAN_TRAFFICKING_-_THE_FACTS_-_final.pdf
http://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/burma