As the debate about the Nordic Model – criminalising those who buy sex while decriminalising those who sell it – rages on, it is important to dispel some myths about...

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One of the fundamental characteristics of the trade in human beings worldwide is that it is often conducted through highly sophisticated criminal networks that span nations and continents. To counter...

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Last week, the annual Cross Border Modern Slavery and Trafficking for Labour Exploitation Conference took place in Armagh. The purpose of this conference was to share experiences between organisations working north and south...

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When Catherine McAuley was a young woman living in the Callaghan household in Coolock, she encountered a servant girl who came to her desperate for help. This girl worked for a local...

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A young woman call Mpoetsi and her cousin and two other friends from a rural area were offered good work as waitresses in her local big city. “We came to the city...

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Linnéa Engström, who is a Swedish member of the European Parliament, puts forward a strong case for the wider adoption of what is called the “Nordic Model” as the most effective way of...

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The reality and complexity of human trafficking was outlined to a gathering of 850 members of the leadership of women’s religious congregations, at their meeting in Rome on 10 May. The speaker...

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Every year, millions of children are trafficked, forced into hard labour, prostitution, and recruited as child soldiers. UNICEF estimates that the commercial sex trade victimises over 2 million children every year. Most...

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I drove from Olongapo City to Subic town recently and pointed to the journalist the row of shuttered, dilapidated and closed-down sex bars that lined the road at Calapandayan, Subic. It is...

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Two young men, called Robbie and Kyle, have spent every Friday night for the past ten years, rescuing women who are victims of human trafficking in Cape Town, South Africa. One of...

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