Before she became a Minister in the current coalition government Simona Broomes had come to public attention as a crusader for reining in the vice of Trafficking in Persons (TIP). Her familiarity with the gold mining industry had positioned her to observe and eventually to come to understand the movement of mostly young women to mining shops in the interior to serve as sex slaves. What brought her to public attention was the fact that her hands-on approach to fighting the scourge of human trafficking coincided with an official indifference to the phenomenon and perhaps not surprisingly it was the United States government that recognised and publicly honored her as one of the 2013 Trafficking In Per-sons (TIP) Report Heroes.
Her subsequent appointment as Junior Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection and her assignment to labour issues
