Britain's shameless role in helping sex traffickers keep thousands of wome

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Britain's shameless role in helping sex traffickers keep thousands of women in slavery

Those who try to escape prostitution are branded illegal immigrants then deported home to disgrace and poverty
By Sophie Goodchild, Marie Woolf and Tom Anderson
Published: 09 October 2005


Criminal vice-masters are making millions profiting from trafficked women in a growing illegal trade, which MPs will this week claim the Government is failing to stop.

Senior police say cities are so flooded with sex-trafficked women that turf wars are breaking out between rival gangs as supply starts to outstrip demand. Criminals even use the internet to advertise the services of women tricked into sex slavery.

Campaigners accuse the Government of not doing enough to protect the thousands of women, some as young as 15, duped into coming to Britain on the false promise of jobs as nannies or waitresses only to be forced into sex and brutality.

Ministers have yet to sign a new European agreement, already supported by 15 states, aimed at combating human trafficking. Tomorrow, an influential committee of MPs and peers will debate whether to launch a formal inquiry into the Government's failure to sign the convention.
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