May, 2009
Rev Becky Dudley who has undertaken research locally, says:
‘Hard data is difficult to find, but professionals and community workers have encountered a cause for concern in four areas: exploited labour; women and girls who are exploited, including in the sex industry; unaccompanied minors arriving in Northern Ireland; and young people (born in Northern Ireland) who are being systematically sexually exploited.’
From research published in 2005 on behalf of Women’s Aid which can be read here [pdf].
For more on the situation locally please view the further information document here [pdf].
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Exploited is a helpful booklet prepared by The Law Centre (NI) with summary information on the rights of trafficked people in 12 languages.
Further information including the languages it is available in can be sourced here.
Hard copies can be obtained from the Law Centre using the link here, by telephone on 028 9024 4401 or write to Law Centre (NI), 124 Donegall Street, Belfast, BT1 2GY
The Law Centre also offers advice through its helpline: 028 9024 4401.
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RESPONSES BY CHRISTIANS IN GB
CHASTE (Churches Alert to Sex Trafficking Across Europe)
A charity that works for the global eradication of trafficking for sexual exploitation, the provision of practical care and support for those who have been trafficked, and the suppression of the demand that drives the supply of women and the girl child into the sex markets of Europe.
CHASTE: PO Box 983, Cambridge, CB3 8WY
Tel: 0845 456 9335
Web: www.chaste.org.uk
Beyond the Streets (formerly the National Christian Alliance on Prostitution)
Working with other agencies, this organisation seeks to support people move from prostitution to a life ‘Beyond the Streets’. The website includes some background information.
Beyond the Streets, PO Box 1676, Southampton, SO15 9DA
Tel: 0845 0044 231
Web: www.beyondthestreets.org.uk
The National Christian Alliance on Prostitution website can still be accessed at www.ncapuk.org and contains many helpful resources (direct link here).
Salvation Army
The Salvation Army has an anti-trafficking resource pack with a DVD of a short movie, a sermon outline, 2 posters and other information costing £5. They can be obtained from:
The Salvation Army Anti-Trafficking Campaign, International Development, 101 Newington Causeway, London, SE1 6BN
Web: www1.salvationarmy.org
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LOCALLY
CORI(NI)
In April 2008 the Conference of the Religious in Ireland in the north, CORI(NI), co-hosted a seminar on the work of the Medialle Trust. Read the talks at www.cori.ie
An ad hoc CORI anti-trafficking working group has issued a leaflet, Trafficking of People; Modern Day Slavery, to provide information for Catholic religious on the issue of trafficking.
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FURTHER INFORMATION:
Act to Prevent Trafficking Conference Paper by Eimer Burke Psychological impact on the trafficked person Oct 2009 [pdf]
House of Commons Library, Standard Note SN/HA/4324, 30 January 2009,
Human Trafficking: UK Responses
House of Commons Select Committee report
The Trade in Human Beings: Human Trafficking in the UK
Comment on the report
Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA)
Further Submission to the Home Affairs Committee Enquiry into Trafficking, March 2009
Identifying a trafficked person [pdf] presentation by Alison Harvey, July 2008
Anti-Slavery (International), charity (Information and other links)
UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
Human Trafficking
Migrant Smuggling
Home Office Guidance regarding Trafficking
Paper by Tom Obokata, Assistant Director, Human Rights Centre, Queen’s University Belfast
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NEWS AND COMMENT
Amnesty welcomes UK ratification of the Trafficking Convention
Guardian article on ratification
Examples of trafficking cases (Amnesty)
Gillian Wylie, ‘Securing States or Securing People?, Human Trafficking and Security Dilemmas’, Studies 2006
Local News Items:
BBC News report: NI-Lithuanian labour trafficking exposed
BBC News report: Police save 11 from Trafficking
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ORGANISATIONS
Act to Prevent Trafficking A faith-based group in Ireland which seeks to address the problem of trafficking in persons.
ECPAT UK (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes)
Coalition against child trafficking and exploitation.
Council of Europe: Action against trafficking in human beings.
European Network against Trafficking in Human Beings
CROP (Coalition for the removal of pimping)
STOP (Supporting Trafficked and Oppressed People)
Women’s Aid Federation Northern Ireland
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