Scandal of trafficked women held in UK
- Document number
- 2838
- Date
- 2011
- Title
- Scandal of trafficked women held in UK
- Author/publisher
- Tom Harper, London Evening Standard
- Availability
- LSI library
- Document type(s)
- Media/News,
- Keywords
- Sexual exploitation, detention, human trafficking
- Summary
- The ‘London Evening Standard' reports that almost 200 women are being unlawfully detained in immigration centres whereas they are victims of trafficking. The article cites the story of a woman who was trafficked from Nigeria at age 14 for sexual exploitation. Although she escaped she was later detained for several months before her church assisted her with a lawyer. The Poppy Project is now launching a campaign to call on the Government to stop detaining trafficking victims.
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