TWO Midland lawyers whose fight to expose a United Nations cover-up of the Bosnian sex trade was turned into a film want more action to be taken over the issue of sex trafficking.

Madeleine Rees and Karen Bailey, who first met at Birmingham law firm Tyndallwoods, worked to help former police officer Kathryn Bolkovac who exposed sex trafficking in the aftermath of the war and later won a £110,000 payout for unfair dismissal.

Ms Bolkovac reported UN employees and DynCorp colleagues for paying for prostitutes and participating in trafficking, and was the inspiration for the movie The Whistleblower.

Ms Rees and Ms Bailey attended a screening of the film at the Electric Cinema last week, and said the part played by Birmingham’s legal community in exposing the issue is evidence of the value of work that goes on every day in the city.

Ms Rees, who now works in Geneva as secretary general of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and Ms Bailey, who heads up city firm Bailey Wright Solicitors, are also calling for more action on sex trafficking.