Rashmi suffers from a "constant burning unease" because she is an undocumented young person.

Undocumented children and young people in Ireland are growing up facing an uncertain future.

The number of people — including children — detected being trafficked into Ireland jumped by 70% in 2015.

The Workplace Relations Commission detected 157 contraventions of employment legislation in the fishing industry in 2016 including 28 people on boats who were working illegally, it has been confirmed.

There are calls for the Government to introduce a scheme which would facilitate undocumented young people to access immigration papers.

The original wording of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic guarantees fundamental rights and promises to “cherish all the children of the nation equally”.

A conference later today will call for the regularisation of thousands of undocumented people living in Ireland and will hear the majority are working and have been living here for more than five years.

New laws cracking down on sham marriages could lead to racial profiling, migrant rights groups have warned.

Domestic workers in Ireland are most at risk of exploitation, an EU report to be published today will show.

The Government must do more to help the thousands of undocumented migrants living in Ireland, says a campaign group.

Labour of Love is a new campaign to end the exploitation of au pairs in private homes across Ireland.

The Government is being urged to re-introduce the work permit for workers in the home.

Regularising the position of up to 26,000 undocumented migrants would potentially generate €185m for the State over five years, according to a support agency.

A victim of domestic labour exploitation had told her story to Jehovah’s Witnesses who came to the door of her employer, eventually triggering her release, a conference on human trafficking heard yesterday.

The gardeners used by organised gangs to tend to cannabis crops are often little more than “slaves” who usually have to live in squalid conditions.

Victims of slavery are being left in limbo and failed by the State, campaigners have claimed.

A 57-year-old Irishwoman was among three women who were last night recovering from 30 years of alleged slavery in London.

Foreign workers are more likely to take a claim for unfair dismissal against their employer than their Irish counterparts, according to new research on the rulings of the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT).

Changes to college fee arrangements for migrant students have been welcomed but campaign groups say hundreds will still be excluded by unaffordable charges despite having been educated in Ireland.

Time is running out for the Government to help hundreds of migrant students facing enormous international student fees at college, many of whom are already Irish citizens.

Amnesty International and migrant rights groups have urged the Government to step up plans to close a loophole which means as many as 24,000 undocumented foreign workers have little recourse in cases of exploitation.

The protection of victims of human trafficking in Ireland will today be addressed by the EU's Anti-Trafficking Co-ordinator.

The Government has admitted that the failure to prosecute and convict criminals involved in human trafficking was a “pressing concern”.

A High Court judge made no secret of the fact that the quashing of a €92,000 award to a Pakistani chef who may have been “the victim of the most appalling exploitation by his employer”, gave him little satisfaction.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has asked his officials to review the situation facing the children of non-EU migrant workers blocked from the same financial supports as other students attending college.

HUNDREDS of undocumented migrants and their families marched on Leinster House at the weekend to highlight the plight of an estimated 30,000 foreign nationals who are here without legal papers.

ETHNIC profiling, which is a form of racial discrimination, is being facilitated by the Irish state, a report by the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) has found.

AS our collective history reminds us almost too often life as an emigrant is never easy.

Five housekeepers at a well-known Dublin hotel have scored a victory over management after their minimum wage salaries were cut.

The Government's plan to cut the minimum wage by €1 or 12% to €7.65 has come in for criticism.

MIGRANT workers should have the right to change employers without fear of losing their work permit, according a new poll.

A CALL by Fianna Fáil TD Frank Fahy for a relaxation of labour law inspections has been condemned as raising questions about the Government’s commitment to workers’ rights and fairness.

THE European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) is among a number of groups which have strongly criticised proposals from Minster for Social Protection Eamon O Cuív to implement a ‘social employment’ scheme which would commit up to 10,000 job seekers to 20 hours community work or face having their unemployment benefits cut.

IT’S another chapter in the success story of Chapter One, with the fine dining Dublin venue voted best restaurant in Ireland for a fifth time by the Restaurant Association of Ireland.

THE Government is facing renewed calls to change the Irish work permit system with the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) launching a campaign calling for immigrant workers to have the right to change employer.

A protest is being held outside Supermacs in Dublin today organised by the Restaurant Workers Action Group

SEVERAL thousand illegal immigrants open to immediate expulsion are to be allowed stay in the country for at least four months under legislation published yesterday.

MIGRANT workers will stage a protest in Dublin today against new work permit regulations which could leave hundreds unable to retain secure jobs.

More than half of all migrant workers earn less than the minimum wage, a new report revealed today.

A DUBLIN restaurant has been ordered to pay a migrant worker €116,000 compensation for gross breaches in employment law, it emerged yesterday.

A Dublin restaurant has been ordered to pay a migrant worker €116,000 compensation for gross breaches in employment law, it emerged today.