Ireland taken off human trafficking watchlist in latest US report 

Sinéad Gibney, chief commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: 'While progress is going in the right direction, Ireland is starting from a very low base — ranked as one of the worst countries in Europe for our responses to trafficking. File picture:Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Ireland has been taken off a watchlist in the US State department's latest report on human trafficking.

The upgrade came after the country spent two years on the tier 2 watch list of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. Now, Ireland is still on tier 2 but off the watchlist.