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Shocked and moved at personal account

Written by Donal Dorr A very moving account of the reality of prostitution was given by Ms Mia de Faoite at the  conference in the Osbourne Centre at the National...

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SUGGESTION ABOUT HOW TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING

An interesting and helpful suggestion about how to combat trafficking for sexual exploitation has come recently from South Africa. What follows is a slight adaptation of that suggestion. A law...

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Restricting the right to say ‘yes’

In the Irish Times of 28 December Fionola Meredith published an opinion piece in which she put forward a very strong critique of the ‘Turn Off the Red Light’ (TORL)...

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What if…?

APT member, Eilis Coe, reflects on what it would really mean for victims of trafficking if our Christmas Light was truly the Lamb of God? As our days become shorter...

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Shocking abuse reported in UK

by Donal Dorr The Sunday Times magazine for 15 December 2013 has a truly horrifying story about trafficking of people—mainly teenage girls—into Britain from Vietnam, China, Nigeria, and other countries....

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Factors Common to HIV/AIDS and Human Trafficking

Speaking at the annual event marking World AIDS Day, organized by Trocaire and the Faculty of Theology at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Maura O’Donohue spoke of the common factors she...

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Pope Francis calls trafficking in persons ‘a crime against humanity’

Posted by Isabelle Smyth Pope Francis is so concerned about human trafficking that he made it the sole subject of his address to a new bunch of 17 diplomats assigned...

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Big Data and New Technology in the fight against Human Trafficking

Maura O’Donohue and Donal Dorr highlight two key points from a recent report. Author and journalist Michael Grothaus explains how different anti-trafficking agencies are beginning to cooperate far more effectively...

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Human Trafficking and Catholic Social Teaching

Mary Mangan represents APT on the network known as RENATE (Religious in Europe Networking against Trafficking and Exploitation. In this blog she shared with us an important Workshop that took...

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Pope Francis initiates Anti Trafficking Workshop

Imelda Poole, who works in Albania, is a member of the Network called RENATE (Religious in Europe Networking against Trafficking and Exploitation). In this blog she shares her account of...

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