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Fri 12 Dec 2008Call to amend Bill to protect trafficking victims
THE PRESENCE in prisons of at least two suspected victims of trafficking shows the need for the Government to make a late amendment to the Immigration Bill to ensure such people are not treated as criminals, a support group has said.
Ruhama, an organisation that works with women involved in prostitution, said women and girls believed to have been trafficked to Ireland to work in the sex trade were routinely being arrested and detained.
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