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Tue 07 Jul 2008'Significant increase' in trafficking of women
A “SIGNIFICANT increase” in the number of women trafficked into Ireland for sexual exploitation has been recorded by an organisation that offers support to women working in the sex industry.
Ruhama says it helped 44 women last year who had been trafficked, some 33 of whom were new referrals. One of the women was deemed to have been smuggled.
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