Facebook is being used more frequently in the East to target girls for the sex trade, writes Margie Mason

A report into trafficking shows that despite some good work, Ireland lags behind many in protecting children, write Dr Deirdre Horgan and Dr Shirley Martin

A petition, signed by 165,000 people, against the sex trafficking of children and young people will be handed into the Government today.

DISGRACED British rocker Gary Glitter protested his innocence yesterday after an appeals court in Vietnam upheld his conviction and three-year prison sentence for molesting young girls at a seaside villa.