Hundreds of women are being forced to work as prostitutes after being trafficked to Ireland, the Justice Minister has told Newstalk Breakfast.
Hundreds of women around the country are being forced to work as prostitutes after being trafficked to Ireland, the Justice Minister has toldHelen McEntee was speaking after the Government launched the Third National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking.
“They have been locked in a room where they have been beaten, they have been starved, they have been raped until they accepted where they were and until they accepted that they would have to engage in prostitution.” “What I mean by that is that we encourage victims of human trafficking to come forward so that we can provide them support and assistance, but that we also bring to justice those who are responsible for this,” she said.“This is treating individuals - people - like commodities and those who are responsible for this have absolutely no respect for human dignity, for human life, for basic human rights.
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