Kira West

Kira West is Principal of Reden International (RI)—one of the main independent private institutions in Denmark supporting women who are victims of human trafficking. RI provides support for foreign women in prostitution, offering guidance, healthcare, legal consultancy, and social care. RI runs a counselling centre for foreign women, the Night Café, does outreach work in and outside Copenhagen, and runs a safe house for foreign women who are victims of trafficking.

Trafficked women in Denmark: falling through the cracks

Denmark’s claim to want to help ‘victims of trafficking’ will ring hollow as long as Danish legislation does not match the reality faced by migrant women in prostitution.

By Kira West

/ 26 Apr 2019

Trafficked women in Denmark: falling through the cracks