The research shows that violence, intimidation and rape are common experiences among the women, but evidence of their suffering is often overlooked and they do not receive the protection supposedly guaranteed to them as victims of human trafficking under international law.
The report’s findings and policy implications were presented to MPs and Peers in the House of Lords last week, at a seminar convened by Cambridge University’s Institute of Criminology and the Prison Reform Trust.
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Women trafficked into crime in UK are imprisoned without support or protection
8 February 2013
Most foreign national women trafficked into the UK and forced to commit offences are given custodial sentences without help or support if arrested – despite being victims of often horrifying crime and abuse themselves, says a Cambridge-led report.