# Forced Labour

Last year

2022

UN warns 50 million people are stuck in 'modern slavery'

The UN set a goal to eradicate all forms of modern slavery by 2030, but instead the number ballooned by 10 million between 2016 and 2021.

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Sep 12th 2022, 10:02 AM

All time

# Slavery

'A wake-up call': There are 800 people living in modern slavery in Ireland

This figure has more than doubled in the last two years.

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Jun 5th 2016, 7:45 AM

# Forced Labour

Child trafficking is on the increase in Ireland

That’s according to a report from the US State Department, which looks at trafficking in countries around the world.

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Jun 20th 2014, 4:47 PM

# Forced Labour

The State is failing to spot victims of trafficking, here's why...

There is still a general onus on victims to self-report according to the ESRI.

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May 1st 2014, 10:21 PM

# Forced Labour

'Strongest response possible' needed to combat human trafficking in Ireland

The Immigrant Council of Ireland is calling for a range of measures to be introduced in Ireland’s next anti-trafficking plan.

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Apr 12th 2014, 1:33 PM

# North Korea

UN declares North Korea's crimes on par with Nazism, apartheid and Khmer Rouge

The head of a UN inquiry has condemned North Korea’s extensive human rights abuses – including extermination, enslavement and sexual violence.

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Mar 17th 2014, 5:02 PM

# Bristol

Three men rescued in slavery raid by British police

Police carried out a series of raids in the Bristol area earlier today and rescued the three men.

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Dec 8th 2013, 5:24 PM

# London Slavery

Slavery suspects linked to 13 properties across London

British media have reported this morning that the investigation has been widened by Met police.

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Nov 25th 2013, 8:11 AM

# Forced Labour

Concerns over Irish procedures for handling domestic slavery cases

The MRCI, which has dealt with over 200 cases in the last six years, says there are lessons to be learned from this week’s high-profile case in London.

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Nov 23rd 2013, 11:30 AM

# London

Enslaved women traumatised but doing ‘remarkably well’

Founder of Freedom Charity, Aneeta Prem, has met the three victims on numerous occasions recently.

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Nov 22nd 2013, 6:26 PM

# Forced Labour

Suspects in London domestic servitude investigation bailed

Three women were allegedly held against their will in a London home for more than 30 years.

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Nov 22nd 2013, 7:29 AM

# China

China rape victim's mother wins damages over labour camp

The mother of a child who was kidnapped, raped and forced into prostitution had been sent to labour camp because of her demands that her daughter’s attackers be punished.

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Jul 15th 2013, 10:00 AM

# Forced Labour

Extra Dáil sitting to pass laws against human trafficking

TDs are being hauled in on a Friday to pass legislation which gives a new legal definition to “forced labour”.

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Jun 28th 2013, 7:45 AM

# Human Trafficking

Report shows that out of 13 suspected Irish traffickers, none were prosecuted

A new report on human trafficking by the European Commission has found that although the numbers of those trafficked in Europe rose by 18 per cent between 2008 and 2010, convictions dropped by 13 per cent.

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Apr 16th 2013, 7:15 AM

# North Korea

Photos reveal evidence of new North Korean prison camp

Amnesty International has called for a UN commission of inquiry to investigate suspected human rights violations.

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Mar 7th 2013, 7:15 AM

# Outlawed

'Modern day slavery' to be criminalised

Alan Shatter defined the term ‘forced labour’ in the new Human Trafficking Bill.

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Jan 7th 2013, 9:36 PM

# Forced Labour

Forced labour 'alive and well in Ireland'

Senator Jillian Van Turnhout is calling on the Government to legislate against forced labour, saying that 160 cases have been documented in Ireland since 2006.

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Dec 4th 2012, 12:28 PM

Voices

Column: Why isn't modern day slavery criminalised in Ireland?

There have been 169 cases of forced labour in Ireland in recent years – and this is only the tip of the iceberg, writes Gráinne O’Toole.

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Feb 9th 2012, 7:30 PM

# Khmer Rouge

Pol Pot's deputy tells court: Khmer Rouge 'were not bad people'

Nuon Chea, on trial for genocide, today denied responsibility for the mass killings of his fellow Cambodians – blaming their deaths on neighbouring Vietnam.

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Dec 5th 2011, 2:43 PM