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Earlier this month, a couple were jailed for running a multi-million pound prostitution ring from a former vicarage in Pembrokeshire. The women and girls they used had all been trafficked into the country, commodities in a fast-growing international criminal trade.

Four million people are reckoned to be trafficked every year, two million into the sex industry, and their stories of deception, cruelty and violence compose a heartbreaking tale of contemporary slavery, about which Roy Jenkins' guest this week decided she must do something.

Sister Ann Teresa, from Newport in South Wales, has been a nun with the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Annecy for more than 40 years. After a variety of jobs for her order, she found herself working among prostitutes on the streets of Southampton, and there discovered the plight of trafficked women. The result has been the founding of The Medaille Trust which provides safe houses to help those who have been freed from sex trafficking.

Sr. Ann Teresa, ahead of a visit to The Ty Croeso Centre on Saturday 27 February to lead a day on prayer and reflection on slavery related to human trafficking, talks to Roy Jenkins about her work with The Medaille Trust and how it relates to her vocation.

This edition of All Things Considered is broadcast on Sunday 21 February at 8.30am and repeated on Wednesday 24 February at 6.30 pm.

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