Statement
from Joint NGO Group concerned with
Trafficking
in Human Beings
18th
June, 2007
We
are concerned with attempts by a US State Department report to minimise
We
must question how the US State Department received and composed this information
– and stress that such inaccurate information serves no purpose for
In
our considered view, this year’s TIP Report departs from standards of
objectivity and lacks a checking of data, thereby drawing inaccurate
conclusions.
The
document refers to
This
report has not highlighted the current legislative vacuum in Ireland in relation
to trafficking, not does it include the fact that the Criminal Justice
(Trafficking in Persons and Sexual Offences Bill) 2006 was sent to the Irish
Human Rights Commission to assess its compatibility with Ireland’s obligations
to Human Rights standards.
The
report also refers to a figure of €580,000 being provided by the Government to
‘a local NGO’ to fund victim care and living expenses while victims await court
appearances’. We are not aware of
any such figure being provided for this purpose.
Our
main concern around this report is that it does not reflect the reality of
trafficking of persons into
Issued by the following
groups:
(Contact details of
spokespersons alongside individual organisations)
Ruhama – Gerardine Rowley – 086 2591247
Amnesty International – Fiona Crowley – 01 6776361 / 087 2505551
CORI Ad Hoc Working Group on Trafficking – Maura O Donohue –085 7161916
Migrant Rights Centre
National Women’s Council – Joanna McMinn – 01 8787248
European Women’s Lobby (EWL) – Grainne Healy – 087 2473286
EWL’s Irish Observatory on Violence against Women – Monica O Connor – 01 8787248
Notes to the
Editor:
v
The
Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report
2007 –
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2007/86204.htm
Released by the
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On
Page
218 ,
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On
page 7
,
it quotes that during 2006 ‘Zambian girls were trafficked to
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On
page 134
,
it states that ‘Men and women from
v
The
Irish Human Rights Commission
- Observations
on the Criminal
Justice (Trafficking in Persons and Sexual Offences )Bill 2007
The
conclusions of the Irish Human Rights Commission on the Criminal Justice
(Trafficking in Persons and Sexual Offences) Bill 2006 are published in this
submission.
The Criminal Justice (Trafficking in Persons and Sexual Offences Bill)
2006 was found incompatible with
Contact: Liam Herrick – IHRC
v 2000 – 2006 Statistics from Ruhama
(Ruhama is a Dublin based NGO that has worked with women involved in prostitution for the past 18 years)
Ruhama is aware of over 200 women who have been trafficked into
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Report
by the Migrant Rights Centre
http://www.mrci.ie/publications/documents/NoWayForwardNoGoingBack.Foreword.ExecSummary.pdf
No
Way Forward, No Going Back: Identifying the problem of trafficking for forced
labour in
This report provides an
overview of the situation with regard to trafficking for forced labour in