{"id":593,"date":"2013-01-22T10:34:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T10:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-takes-part-in-british-irish-meeting-on-human-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2013-01-22T10:34:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T10:34:33","slug":"crowe-takes-part-in-british-irish-meeting-on-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-takes-part-in-british-irish-meeting-on-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe takes part in British-Irish meeting on human trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Crowe takes part in British-Irish meeting on human trafficking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe was one of a number of Irish TDs who  attended a meeting of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly in  Scotland which is investigating measures that should be taken by  parliaments in Dublin, Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London to  co-ordinate measures to deal with the growing problem of people  trafficking. Crowe described people trafficking where many adults and  children are forced into the sex industry as \u201cmodern day slavery\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the meeting, Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last two-days of meetings have been very informative with common  agreement among the elected representatives that we need greater  cohesion and a more co-ordinated response to tackle human trafficking,  which is modern day slavery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecent research from the EU suggests men, women and children that  are trafficked are bought and traded as commodities with price tags of  around \u20ac20,000 and that the trafficking of people generates more than  \u20ac25 billion a year for criminal gangs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough human trafficking is becoming more profitable for gangs and  is on the increase, the number of convictions in the EU has dropped to  1,250 in 2010 from 1,500 in 2008. \u00a0Politicians, police services, human  rights advocacy groups and social services all need to work together and  across borders to ensure that nobody gets sold into slavery by these  gangs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe takes part in British-Irish meeting on human trafficking Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe was one of a number of Irish TDs who attended a meeting of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly in Scotland which is investigating measures that should be taken by parliaments in Dublin, Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London to co-ordinate measures to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}