News & Press 2008
Press Releases 2008
Press Release 10th November, 2008:
Ruhama launchs campaign targeting men who purchase sex in Ireland
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Press Release 30th June, 2008:
Ruhama today released some key statistics for 2007.
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Press Release 28th January, 2008
Ruhama invites Agneta Bucknell to talk about the Swedish model of legislation which criminalizes the buyers of sexual services.
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Interviews 2008
Call to free jailed sex trafficking victim
20th December 2008, The Irish Times by Tom Shiel
Call to amend Bill to protect trafficking victims
12th December 2008, The Irish Times by Ruadhan Mac Cormaic
11th December 2008, The Irish Catholic by Siobhan Tanner
One of five women discovered in suspected brothels leaves Ireland
6th December 2008, The Irish Times by Ruadhan Mac Cormaic
What happens to the women now?
6th December 2008, The Irish Times by Ruadhan Mac Cormaic
Brothel raids - Victims must get equal thought
5th December 2008, The Examiner, Editorial
Two rescued from brothels cared for but fears over the safety of five others
5th December, 2008, Irish Examiner, by Jennifer Hough and Stephen Rogers
Only one woman given immunity from deportation
5th December 2008, Irish Examiner by Stephen Rogers and Cormac O Keeffe
4th December 2008, RTE One, Prime Time; Aoife Kavanagh reports on the scale of the problem of sex trafficking in Ireland
Suspected brothel was thought to be a profit maker
4th December 2008, The Athlone Voice by Jacinta Feehan
Gerardine Rowley, Ruhama, talks about the rights of women trafficked into Ireland
4th December 2008, RTE Radio 1, Morning Ireland.
Held captive with drugs, degradation and abuse
16th November 2009, The Sunday Independent by Carol Hunt
Ads targets men who use trafficked women
11th November 2008, Irish Examiner by Caroline O' Doherty
11th November 2008, The Irish Times, News in Brief
Launch of the first ever Irish media campaign directly targeting people who buy sex
10th November 2008, News on Two, Laura Fletcher RTE reports on Ruhama's new TV ad campaign
Anti-trafficking ads to be broadcast
10th November 2008, RTE Radio 1, Drivetime
'There's no glamour in being a prostitute. You're an object not a person...it is utter hell'
9th November 2008, Sunday World by Nicola Tallant
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Carlow at centre of sex traffic ring
24th October 2008, The Nationalist by Suzanne Pender
Human Traffickers in new Garda Crackdown
22nd October 2008, Herald AM
Sex trafficking ring investigated
20th October 2008, Paul Reynolds, Crime Correspondent, reports on the circumstances surrounding one victim's ordeal.
RTE News at One
Lap-dancing club granted licence without a whisper
12th October 2008, Sunday Independent by Joanna Kiernan
Prisoners of Vice
5th October 2008, Sunday World by Nicola Tallant
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Voodoo fears keep Nigerians from naming trafficers
2nd October 2008, Irish Examiner by Cormac O'Keeffe
Nigerian girl trafficked for sex trade goes missing from HSE
10th September 2008; Irish Times by Dara De Faoite and Ruadhan Mac Cormaic
Gardai believe teenage girl was trafficked
9th July 2008; Irish Times by Ruadhan Mac Cormaic
Women lured here and forced into sex
6th July 2008; Sunday Independent by Joanna Kiernan
Trafficking a problem in Athlone, a new report shows.
4th July 2008; Westmeath Independent
'Significant increase' in trafficking of women
1st July 2008; Irish Times by Kitty Holland
Rural hell for Ireland's sex slaves
1st July 2008, Irish Independent by Louise Hogan
Ruhama concerns on traffickers
16th June, 2008, Irish Times by Paddy Clancy
Ruhama comments on the sentencing of Martin Morgan
Ruhama, said: 'A key player in the sex industry has been sentenced. This is an industry where women are abused on a vast scale. It is important that the people who run these operations are seen as criminals, and are jailed.'
7th March 2008; RTE News: Man jailed for running brothel
Brothel and The Beast
23rd February 2008; Irish Examiner by Stephen Rogers
I was kidnapped and forced in prostitution�
17th February 2008; Sunday Tribune by Ali Bracken
Gardai investigate suspected Chinese brothels
17th February 2008; Sunday Tribune by Ali Bracken
Ruhama asks the Question; �Should lapdancing clubs be banned in Ireland?
4 February 2008; RTE Questions And Answers
Lap dance bars 'lead to rise in sex trafficking'
27th January, 2008; Sunday Independent by Larissa Nolan
