
From farming to the sex trade - Ireland’s human trafficking problem
Trafficking of women and girls into Ireland to work in the sex industry is one aspect of a transnational crime that has been discovered in a range of sectors, from food production to fishing, forced marriages to farming, nail bars to begging.
And while trafficked people can come from all over the world, an increase in people brought into the country from eastern Europe under false pretences and then exploited in the labour market has been noted.
Victims of human trafficking have been found - men, women and childen - but there have been just three convictions.
Dr Nusha Yonkova, head of…
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