'Active Irish sex trade' warning amid Ukrainian refugee influx

The Sexual Exploitation Research Programme  based at University College Dublin, warned that gender-specific safe accommodation and other specialist supports should be put in place, adding: 'Ireland continues to have an active sex trade, and as such is already a destination country for victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation.'

Experts on commercial sexual exploitation have warned Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney that not all offers of help to Ukrainian refugees are genuine.

More measures are needed to guard against women and children being abused, including through so-called "sex for rent", they have said.