Halt human trafficking
Thursday June 21 2007
The latest Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report produced by the US State
Department reveals that during 2006 “Zambian girls were trafficked to
Ireland for commercial sexual exploitation”. It also states that men and
women from Latvia were trafficked to Ireland and the UK “for the purpose of
forced labour.”
We need legislation which not only
criminalises human trafficking but provides a zone of protection for
trafficked people.
We must also ask if the US State Department’s
report was too quick to give our Department of Justice’s slant on the issue.
The document refers to Ireland as “a potential problem” and says there are
“only a small number of cases”. This does not reflect the experience of
agencies working with victims of trafficking on the ground.
RONAN
MULLEN, AHASCRAGH, CO GALWAY
