Asylum seeking victims of human trafficking in Ireland: Legal and Practical Challenges

Friday, 18 November 2011

The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) received funding from the UN Global initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN GIFT) to provide legal representation to victims of human trafficking in Ireland. The ICI has invested in and developed an expertise in the provision of holistic legal representation for women and girls who have been subjected to human trafficking for sexual exploitation in the State. The ICI has a number of open legal cases that are at different stages of the Irish immigration and criminal investigation/prosecution processes. These cases involve women who have been trafficked to Ireland for the purposes of sexual exploitation, with many of them having been trafficked and exploited in other countries on route to Ireland. In the majority of cases, the clients had filed an asylum application before or after being referred to the ICI for legal representation, and they are the focus of the present report.

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Asylum seeking victims of human trafficking in Ireland:Legal and practical challenges