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# ruhama - Thursday 18 October, 2012

Sex Trafficking

Sex trafficking numbers ‘tip of the iceberg’

18/10/12 6,150 Views 43 Comments

Over 1,000 women for sale on the internet in Ireland, TheJournal.ie told, but few go to police.

# ruhama - Wednesday 22 August, 2012

Ruhama

Ruhama reports 18 per cent increase in demand for support services

22/08/12 2,285 Views 42 Comments

Group which assists women affected by prostitution and trafficking says it supported 241 women last year.

# ruhama - Tuesday 15 May, 2012

Prostitution

“Women sell sex because they have to,” says new campaign

15/05/12 4,294 Views 140 Comments

The Ruhama agency has launched a new multimedia campaign which it says “contradicts the glamorous veneer and images used to advertise and normalise prostitution”.

# ruhama - Wednesday 2 May, 2012

Human Trafficking

Reports of 13 cases of trafficking of minors made last year

02/05/12 2,125 Views 8 Comments

Of the alleged victims, eight were said to have been trafficked for sexual exploitation.

# ruhama - Wednesday 8 February, 2012

Prostitution

Prostitution programme ‘showed the appalling abuse of women’ – Taoiseach

08/02/12 4,926 Views 48 Comments

Enda Kenny told the Dáil today that the government intends to introduce legislation to clamp down on the prostitution industry in Ireland.

Prime Time

RTÉ praised for ‘hard hitting’ programme on prostitution

08/02/12 8,289 Views 95 Comments

Profiting from Prostitution revealed that about 700 women are currently selling sex in Ireland and their pimps are taking in massive profits as a result.

# ruhama - Friday 30 September, 2011

Read Me

Column: ‘I thought what I was doing was normal’

30/09/11 4,067 Views 11 Comments

How do women end up in prostitution? One tells her personal story, and describes her experience in the sex industry.

# ruhama - Tuesday 27 September, 2011

Prostitution

Law banning purchase of sex “would reduce sex trafficking and prostitution”

27/09/11 2,501 Views 81 Comments

Police officers from Sweden and Norway met with members of the Gardaí, the HSE and other organisations to discuss making the purchase of sex illegal in Ireland.

Opinion

Column: Do we have the right to buy or sell sex?

27/09/11 3,062 Views 33 Comments

Criminalising people who pay for sex diverts attention from the real victims being exploited, argues Paul Ryan

# ruhama - Tuesday 23 August, 2011

Prostitution

Most victims of sex trafficking are African, says support group

23/08/11 806 Views 5 Comments

Ruhama’s annual report shows that the majority of women they help who were trafficked into Ireland and forced into the sex trade are African.

# ruhama - Monday 22 August, 2011

Prostitution

Prostitution on the rise in Ireland

22/08/11 2,099 Views 58 Comments

The number of women here working in the sex industry has increased by 4 per cent, according to an organisation that supports the victims of prostitution.

# ruhama - Friday 29 April, 2011

Prostitution

Men who pay for sex ‘should be prosecuted’

29/04/11 1,175 Views 9 Comments

Public health specialist calls for men who buy sex to be prosecuted – but an organisation representing sex workers in Ireland says this is not the best approach.

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