The Foreign Minister has confirmed that his office helped speed the process for a New Zealand woman to get home after apparently being held captive in Ecuador for more than a decade.
Moapi Tukufenoga has told the story of being abducted after going to a party on a boat in Auckland when she was 18.
The Foreign Minister Phil Goff says he was asked to help when contacted a couple of months ago.
Goff says 700,000 people a year are trafficked, and they are usually young women on the way to a life of sex slavery.
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