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Durkan expresses concern for trafficking victims

SDLP Policing Board member Mark H Durkan has stated that greater efforts are needed to protect and support victims of modern slavery and human trafficking in Northern Ireland. It follows a major operation to target human trafficking this week which ...

22 Nov 2022 at 16:33

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Discovery of 27 brothels by police ‘truly shocking’ - Foyle MLA

Sinn Féin MLA Ciara Ferguson said the discovery of 27 brothels by police is ‘truly shocking'’ and said it’s a relief that the victims have now been brought to safety. The Foyle MLA said: “News that police have discovered 27 brothels across the ...

22 Nov 2022 at 16:33

Couple who enslaved Slovakian men and forced them to work at car wash are jailed

A couple who trafficked more than 40 vulnerable men to the UK from Slovakia and forced them into slavery in order to fund their gambling addiction have been jailed. Maros Tancos, 45, and Joanna Gomulska, 46, recruited their victims from care ...

22 Jun 2022 at 16:45

Potential modern slavery victims at new high in first quarter of 2023

The number of potential victims of modern slavery in the UK rose by more than a quarter in the first three months of 2023 compared with the same period last year and is at the highest level since the system to identify them began. A total ...

04 May 2023 at 11:31

Most of those held after crossing Channel referred as potential slavery victims

The majority of people detained after crossing the Channel to the UK in recent years have been referred as potential victims of modern slavery. Almost all of those who came under the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) while awaiting their ...

07 Mar 2023 at 14:39

City

Investors urge UK firms to increase efforts on tackling slavery in supply chains

Investors are calling on UK-listed companies to increase efforts to tackle modern slavery, human trafficking and forced labour in their supply chains. Sustainable investment firm CCLA, alongside a coalition of investors, has been ...

29 Aug 2023 at 14:12

Northern Ireland

Three remanded in custody charged with human trafficking

Three people have been remanded in custody charged with human trafficking for sexual exploitation and brothel keeping. Petru Samuel Balogh, 26, from Hugh Street in Belfast, Flortina Ciurar, 35, also from Hugh Street, and Ioan ...

29 Jul 2023 at 13:32

Northern Ireland

Human trafficking ‘big problem’ in Northern Ireland, says women’s charity

Human trafficking is now a “big problem” in Northern Ireland, Women’s Aid Belfast has said. The comments came as three people were arrested on charges relating to six women who had been trafficked from Romania to Northern ...

28 Jul 2023 at 16:04

Braverman loses first round of High Court fight with trafficking ‘victims’

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has lost the opening round of a High Court fight with two men believed to be victims of human trafficking. The men, both from eastern Europe, were disqualified from being given protection ...

26 Jul 2023 at 18:23

World

Watchdog opens probe into role of EU border agency in Mediterranean boat tragedy

The European Union’s official watchdog has opened an inquiry into the role of the bloc’s Frontex border agency in the shipwreck off Greece last month in which hundreds of people died. Migrant crossings in unseaworthy ...

26 Jul 2023 at 17:36

National News

Five children trafficked to Ireland with one person brought to Ireland for 'organ removal'

A first suspected case of a victim being trafficked for organ removal was recorded in Ireland last year, according to a new report. Five children were identified as trafficking victims, most of them for sexual ...

13 Sept 2023 at 20:33

Six held in Romania and London as part of human trafficking investigation

Six people in London and Romania have been held as part of a police investigation into human trafficking using “loverboy tactics” to lure women into prostitution. On Friday morning, 133 officers took part in ...

04 Aug 2023 at 16:11

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