What Can I do?
What can I Do?
- Keep yourself informed about this global problem
- Be aware that is is present in Ireland
- Talk about it among your friends and family and in your workplace
- Do whatever you can to raise awareness of this evil in our society
How do I keep up to date?
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Know the Signs
- Be of any age, although the age may vary according to the location of the market.
- Move from one brothel to the next or work in various locations.
- Be escorted whenever they go to and/or return from work and other outside activities.
- Have tattoos or other marks indicating ‘ownership’ by their exploiters.
- Work long hours or have few if any days off Sleep where they work.
- Live or travel in a group, sometimes with other women who do not speak the same language.
- Have very few items of clothing.
- Have clothes that are mostly the kind typically worn for doing sex work
- Only know how to say sex-related words in the local language or in the language of the client group.
- Have no cash of their own.
- Be unable to show an identity document.
Human Trafficking affects women, men and children in their deepest being. It strikes at what is most precious in them – their dignity and their values as individual.