Country Progress Card - Ireland

The Stop Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People global campaign conducted in partnership between The Body Shop and ECPAT seeks to inspire long-term change to strengthen the protection offered to children and young people and guarantee their rights to be protected from all forms of exploitation, including trafficking for sexual purposes. This campaign utilises an innovative method to analyse the progress of 42 states’ efforts to combat child sex trafficking by tracking three key goals and 4 specific indicators for each goal as the campaign progresses.

Data for the Progress Card Booklets was collected through various sources, focusing mainly on ECPAT’s experiences in monitoring progress on the implementation of the Agenda for Action against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.42 Data was also sourced from UN bodies, governmental, non‐governmental organisations and other stakeholders involved in anti-trafficking measures. In Ireland, data was sourced through the Children’s Rights Alliance as well as documentary sources.