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'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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This figure has more than doubled in the last two years.
That’s according to a report from the US State Department, which looks at trafficking in countries around the world.
There is still a general onus on victims to self-report according to the ESRI.
The Immigrant Council of Ireland is calling for a range of measures to be introduced in Ireland’s next anti-trafficking plan.
The head of a UN inquiry has condemned North Korea’s extensive human rights abuses – including extermination, enslavement and sexual violence.
Police carried out a series of raids in the Bristol area earlier today and rescued the three men.
British media have reported this morning that the investigation has been widened by Met police.
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.
Founder of Freedom Charity, Aneeta Prem, has met the three victims on numerous occasions recently.
Three women were allegedly held against their will in a London home for more than 30 years.
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.
TDs are being hauled in on a Friday to pass legislation which gives a new legal definition to “forced labour”.
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.
Amnesty International has called for a UN commission of inquiry to investigate suspected human rights violations.
Alan Shatter defined the term ‘forced labour’ in the new Human Trafficking Bill.
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.
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.
Nuon Chea, on trial for genocide, today denied responsibility for the mass killings of his fellow Cambodians – blaming their deaths on neighbouring Vietnam.
Muhammad Younis from Pakistan was forced to work in what have been described as chronic conditions in a Clondalkin restaurant for seven years.
People are being held in conditions with parallels to those suffered by 24 men rescued in England, a charity has warned.
Germany agrees a €120m compensation deal after children in state and church care were abused for 25 years.