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 to identify a teenage girl found dazed in Dublin city.

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.

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.