Ireland exposed as sex traffic centre

Ireland has been named as a "destination, source, and transit country" for people being trafficked for sexual and labour exploitation in a new US State Department report.

Campaigners here said the findings of the Trafficking in Persons Report 2014 highlighted serious gaps in Ireland’s anti-trafficking laws and in how victims are dealt with.

The report, which was published yesterday, said: “Foreign trafficking victims identified in Ireland are from Nigeria, Cameroon, the Philippines, Poland, Brazil, Pakistan, South Africa, Lithuania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, Kuwait, and other countries in Asia, and Eastern Europe.