Sex slave trafficking crisis looms

GANGS trafficking in sex slaves and other black market workers are posing a growing challenge for the Irish authorities, the minister with responsibility for human rights has warned.

Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs Conor Lenihan compared the problem to that presented by domestic organised crime and warned law enforcers would lose ground in the fight against it without a concerted effort to tackle it.

“Trafficking is a particularly despicable violation of human rights. It reduces human beings to commodities to be bought and sold at will,” Mr Lenihan told a conference.