The problem of endemic forced labor and of widespread child labor plagues Burma’s most disadvantaged. The US State Department’s 2013 Trafficking in Persons report highlights forced labor practices in Burma, particularly in state agricultural and commercial enterprises, and in ethnic and border regions. The UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Burma has repeatedly documented forced labor cases, and communities affected by land confiscation or in conflict/post-conflict areas are most at risk. Ethnic people – in 2013 those particularly in Shan, Kachin, and Karen States – are forced by the Burmese military to serve as porters, human shields, landmine sweepers, and construction workers.