MANY public service bodies are still failing to cater for the needs of children, including the most vulnerable, the children’s ombudsman told a European conference yesterday.

POLICE in Britain have arrested more than 500 suspects in a crackdown on human trafficking in the sex trade, the government said yesterday.

GOVERNMENT legislation to combat human trafficking, which has been signed into law, was welcomed yesterday by a leading refugee body.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell yesterday said the Colombia Three “may well” be extradited back to Colombia.

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski said today that Western European governments have a duty to support democratic reforms in countries on Europe’s eastern fringe.