The Government is coming under increasing pressure to punish those who buy sex and to move away from the current emphasis on prosecuting prostitutes.

Gardaí will issue a photograph this morning of a teenage girl who may have been trafficked here in a bid to uncover her identity.

Interpol has been called in to try and identify a teenage girl found dazed in Dublin City who has drawn pictures of herself apparently being raped.

Interpol has been called in to try to identify a teenage girl found dazed in Dublin city.

Pimps are pocketing millions of euro from trafficking and prostitution while politicians consider changing the law, it was claimed.

Pimps are pocketing millions of euro from trafficking and prostitution while politicians consider changing the law, it is claimed.

Laws should be changed to give migrant women suffering from domestic abuse the chance to leave their partner without endangering their right to stay in the country, the Immigrant Council said yesterday.

MOST victims of human trafficking are subjected to threats, imprisonment, sexual abuse and beatings by their traffickers, according to a Government report.

RUHAMA is currently looking after two of the women alleged to have been trafficked to the nine brothels raided on Wednesday, but it is concerned for the welfare of five other women.

MANY Nigerian women trafficked into Ireland for prostitution refuse to identify their traffickers because of voodoo rituals, an expert has told a conference.