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Mon 02 Feb 2007Campaign to highlight sex traffickingThe 100 foreign women known to have been trafficked into the sex industry in Ireland is merely "the tip of the iceberg", a group working with prostitutes said today.Ruhama, a charity providing outreach services to women working in the sex industry in Dublin, said it had made contact with 100 women who came to Ireland to work, but found themselves trafficked as "sex slaves".