Ireland lauded despite failure to prosecute any traffickers

A GLOBAL report on human trafficking has placed Ireland in the top tier of countries for its efforts to tackle the crime, even though not one person has been prosecuted under this country’s specific legislation dealing with trafficking.

The US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) 2010, says Ireland “fully complies with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking”.

While it finds this country is a destination and transit country for women, men and children subjected to trafficking, it said the Government had made “substantial strides” in acknowledging Ireland’s human trafficking problem and implementing legislation and policies to punish trafficking offenders and protect trafficking victims.