Slavery Irish style

biko

Slavery is still happening a lot around the world today, mainly in specific regions, but virtually no country is untouched.
Ireland has its fair share too. How do we find and beat these slavers traders? Imo "human trafficking" is just a nice word for slavery.

To what extent are they now infecting Ireland?
Is it only prostitution or does their grip extend into other branches too?

Remember, there wouldn't be trafficking in Ireland if there wasn't a market, particularly for young girls lured into slavery with promises of jobs and then raped and beaten into submission. Start by noticing the strip clubs and similar bars in your area, can the Eastern European women move around by themselves or is there always a minder there to make sure they don't "stray".
For instance, in Galway there is always a minder to walk the women to and from a certain strip club - maybe for their protection but maybe to make sure they don't "get lost".

Other markets for slavery:
*Roma people being flown into Ireland to beg for their masters back in Romanian luxury mansions.
*Foreigners being paid abysmally, the last case was a Dublin restaurateur has been ordered to pay a worker €91,000 for gross exploitation which has been likened to slavery.

Denerick

A lot of the evidence suggests that many of the prostitutes working in Ireland are from western/central European countries like the Czech Republic/Spain. Although it is a common myth, most prostitutes are not forced into the business by eastern European mafia.

paddyandy

Cutbacks in the Gardai do no good at all .The defenceless are deserted and the pub Patriots SF do nothing about it .

biko

Denerick wrote: »

A lot of the evidence suggests that many of the prostitutes working in Ireland are from western/central European countries like the Czech Republic/Spain. Although it is a common myth, most prostitutes are not forced into the business by eastern European mafia.

It's interesting you would mention this. Can you provide sources?
I'm not saying every single prostitute is trafficked here but some are. I'll see if I can find numbers on this.

The below links shows trafficking and followup sex trade is indeed a reality in this country

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/ireland/100521/African-women-sex-slaves-human-trafficking

But the business of buying and selling women is flourishing in this country, according to Sara Benson, CEO of Ruhama, a Dublin-based organization that works with sexually-exploited women. She told the audience at the movie premier that Ruhama, Hebrew for "renewed life," has come across eight women in the last month who have been trafficked into Ireland. Some 100 of the 431 women helped by Ruhama during 2007 and 2008 were victims of traffickers and most were from Nigeria.

http://www.coistine.ie/resources/resources-for-schools/8-human-trafficking-in-ireland

The 2008 US State Dept “Trafficking in Persons Report” says “Ireland is a destination country for women, men, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor… Women from Eastern Europe, Nigeria, other parts of Africa as well as smaller numbers from South America and Asia, have reportedly been trafficked to Ireland for forced prostitution.

http://www.independent.ie/unsorted/features/sex-for-sale-russian-mafia-muscles-in-on-irelands-red-light-industry-212780.html

The murder of a prostitute and a Garda crackdown on the Irish sex trade left a dangerous vacuum on the streets. DAMIAN CORLESS investigates
Gardai are investigating three English-language schools here on the suspicion that they may be front operations for smuggling Eastern European sex workers into Ireland. The institutions came under scrutiny in the planning of Operation Quest, last month's garda blitz on ten lap-dancing clubs which produced 101 arrests.

In 1996, the year of Belinda Perier's death, 60 prostitution-related offences were recorded. In 1999, with Operation Gladiator underway, that figure skyrocketed to 1,000 as gardai swooped to put brothels and streetwalkers out of business. According to our well-placed source, it turned out to be a monumental miscalculation.

"Every big operator in the business was taken out," he says. "A couple have since returned, but for a time it left a big vacuum and the 'Russian Mafia' just strolled in and took over. There wasn't any turf war because there were no Irish left to fight a turf war.