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Mon 10 Oct 2008Human trafficking
FORCED LABOUR is a modern form of slavery. Its victims are exploited for profit in a trade that often involves cross-border trafficking. Ireland is slowly coming to terms with this new form of human bondage where men and women are sold into slavery and forced to work in factories and on farms, or in prostitution.
In the last six years, according to research conducted at Trinity College Dublin, some 50 foreign nationals have been trafficked into Ireland as forced labourers. The victims, who came mainly from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Egypt and the Philippines, were engaged in catering, manufacturing and domestic work here.
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