One in five maternity staff say they have come into contact with a patient they knew or suspected of having been trafficked, but most healthcare workers report little knowledge or
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A Roma Gypsy gang has been found guilty of trafficking vulnerable Slovakian women into the UK to sell into sham marriages “like pieces of meat”, Scotland Yard said. The poverty-stricken
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A trafficking victim who was forced into prostitution around Europe after being groomed to believe she was going to be a model has spoken of her relief at finding refuge
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Runaway and missing children are being housed by gangs and used to sell drugs in the UK in a form of “child trafficking”, a report has claimed. Vulnerable children without
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Identifying victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) is like “looking for the needle in the haystack”, a Border Force official has said. Border Force staff at Heathrow Airport simulated the
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Victims of human trafficking are being let down by the authorities and could fall back into the hands of criminal gangs, a report has warned. The Human Trafficking Foundation (HTF)
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A workshop presented by the Department of Justice to help social workers spot the signs that someone may be trafficked will take place on 25 March at the NIASW office
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Forty-five potential trafficking victims were discovered in Northern Ireland last year. They claimed they were subjected to domestic servitude, labour or sexual exploitation, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said. At
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The Church of Scotland has written to Nicola Sturgeon urging her to introduce new laws to tackle prostitution. The Church want the purchase of sexual services to be outlawed, saying
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The views of people directly affected by trafficking and slavery are invited by the Justice Committee as part of its call for evidence on the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland)
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