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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early
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Nigeria is a source, transit, and
destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of
forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Within Nigeria, women and
girls are trafficked primarily for domestic servitude and commercial sexual
exploitation. Boys are trafficked for forced labor in street vending,
agriculture, mining, stone quarries, and as domestic servants. Religious
teachers also traffic boys, called almajiri, for
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Babies bred for sale in Nigeria Agence France-Presse AFP, www.mg.co.za/article/2008-11-09-babies-bred-for-sale-in-nigeria [accessed 13 December 2010] Neighbours were suspicious of
the daytime silence at the maternity clinic that came to life only after
nightfall, though never suspected its disquieting secret -- it was breeding
babies for sale. But recent police
raids have revealed an alleged network of such clinics, dubbed baby
"farms" or "factories" in the local press, forcing a new
look at the scope of people trafficking in The doctor in
charge, who is now on trial, reportedly lured teenagers with unwanted
pregnancies by offering to help with abortion. They would be locked up there until they
gave birth, whereupon they would be forced to give up their babies for a
token fee of around 20 000 naira ($170).
The babies would then be sold to buyers for anything between 300 000 and
450 000 naira ($2 500 and $3 800) each, according to a state agency fighting
human trafficking in Nigeria, the National Agency for the Prohibition of
Trafficking in Persons (Naptip). Allan Little, BBC correspondent news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3632203.stm [accessed 13 December 2010] It starts with the
promise of a better life. The parents
are taken in. The children are persuaded. When they leave home they do so
willingly, with some excitement, not trepidation. The trafficker has promised a good job, a schooling, a regular income. But that is not how it
works out. allafrica.com/stories/200708160019.html firefox-article.blogspot.com/2010/09/child-abuse-and-human-trafficking.html [accessed 13 December 2010] [scroll down] Head of National
Agency for the Prohibition and Trafficking in Persons and other Related
Matters (NAPTIP), The victims who are mainly teenagers, he added, engaged in
prostitution overseas. WANTED: the right to refuse Maffie Black, New
Internationalist 337, August 2001 www.newint.org/features/2001/08/05/wanted/ [accessed 13 December 2010] Take a look at
article one of the Supplementary Convention on Slavery and you will see as
one definition: ‘Any practice whereby a woman, without the right to refuse,
is given in marriage in payment of a consideration in money or in kind ...’ How about a story?
Just one, about Hauwa Abukar,
a Nigerian girl who died aged 12. Her family had married her to an older man
to whom they owed money. She was unhappy and kept running away, but because
of the debt her parents were obliged to return her. Finally, her husband
chopped off her legs with an axe to prevent her absconding again. She died
from starvation, shock and loss of blood. No legal action was taken. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/nigeria.htm [accessed 13 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The country is a source, transit, and destination
country for trafficked children.
Children from Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor, March 8, 2006 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61586.htm [accessed 13 December 2010] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Nigerians were trafficked to Europe, the Middle East, and other countries
in Women and children
were most at risk of being trafficked. Boys were trafficked primarily to work
as forced bondage laborers, street peddlers, and beggars, while girls were
trafficked for domestic service, street peddling, and commercial sexual
exploitation. Trafficking in children, and to a lesser extent in women,
occurred within the country's borders. Children in rural areas were
trafficked to urban centers to work as domestics, street peddlers, merchant
traders, and beggars. The United Nations
Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported that individual criminals and
organized criminal groups conducted trafficking, often involving relatives or
other persons already known to the victims. Traffickers employed various
methods during the year. Many were organized into specialties, such as
document and passport forgery, recruitment, and transportation. To recruit
young women, traffickers often made false promises of legitimate work outside
the country. Traffickers also deceived child victims and their parents with
promises of education, training, and salary payments. Once away from their
families, children were subjected to harsh treatment and intimidation.
Traffickers subjected victims to debt bondage, particularly victims forced
into prostitution. In some cases, traffickers employed practitioners of traditional
magic, or juju, to threaten victims with curses to procure their silence.
NAPTIP estimated that 90 percent of the girls trafficked through Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
28 January 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/nigeria2005.html [accessed 13 December 2010] [76] The Committee
notes with appreciation the serious and exemplary efforts undertaken by the
State party to combat child trafficking, including establishment of bilateral
anti-trafficking agreements and introduction of joint border controls. The
Committee further welcomes the enactment of the law prohibiting human
trafficking in July 2003, the creation of the National Agency for Prohibition
of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), and the Presidential appointment of the
Special Assistant for Human Trafficking and Child Labor in June 2003. The
Committee also notes the signature of the Convention for the Suppression of
the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others
in 2003, and the ratification of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime in 2002, by
the State party. Recruitment Firms as Agents of Forced Labour, Human Trafficking ThisDayLive, Nigeria, 01 August
2012 www.thisdaylive.com/articles/recruitment-firms-as-agents-of-forced-labour-human-trafficking/121272/ [accessed 1 August 2012] Allegations are
mounting against recruitment agencies in the country for engaging in forced labour and human trafficking. Linda Eroke
writes on the need for strict regulations and the promotion of recruitment
practices that do not threaten the right of workers. Although, Nigeria
like most African countries is bedeviled by so many problems such as poverty,
unemployment, insecurity and natural disaster, the problem of forced labour and human trafficking has continued to undermine
the essence of living. Every day,
increasing number of men, women and children are trafficked from one city to neighbouring countries and across continents with
promised of better life outside their comfort zones. In the cause of searching for greener
pasture, they are coerced into work they have not chosen and subjected to
perpetual life in bondage. They work under strenuous conditions and do not
receive the wage that was promised them.
The International Labour Organisation
(ILO) described this group of people as victims of forced labour
who have been trafficked into a situation from which they find it difficult
to escape. In Nigeria, there
is a high demand for cheap and easily disposable labour
as organisations, which are already over burden
with high cost of operations engage the services of private recruitment
agencies. This is common in industries
that are labour intensive such as agriculture,
domestic work or construction. Most of these agents, unknown to many are
traffickers who take advantage of the huge supply of cheap labour within and outside the shores of the country. Though the ILO recognises
the positive role played by Private Employment Agencies (PEAs) in national
and global labour markets, it however called for
strict regulations and the promotion of recruitment practices that do not
threaten workers’ rights. Nigeria: Country Among World's Highest in
Human Trafficking Francis Onoiribholo,
Daily Independent ( allafrica.com/stories/200812220165.html [accessed 13 December 2010] Babies bred for sale in Nigeria Agence France-Presse AFP, www.mg.co.za/article/2008-11-09-babies-bred-for-sale-in-nigeria [accessed 13 December 2010] Neighbours were suspicious of
the daytime silence at the maternity clinic that came to life only after
nightfall, though never suspected its disquieting secret -- it was breeding
babies for sale. But recent police
raids have revealed an alleged network of such clinics, dubbed baby
"farms" or "factories" in the local press, forcing a new
look at the scope of people trafficking in The doctor in
charge, who is now on trial, reportedly lured teenagers with unwanted
pregnancies by offering to help with abortion. They would be locked up there until they
gave birth, whereupon they would be forced to give up their babies for a
token fee of around 20 000 naira ($170).
The babies would then be sold to buyers for anything between 300 000
and 450 000 naira ($2 500 and $3 800) each, according to a state agency
fighting human trafficking in Nigeria, the National Agency for the
Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (Naptip). Voodoo Aids Human Trafficking [PDF] Musikilu Mojeed,
The Punch, 24 Oct 2008 lastradainternational.org/lsidocs/Nigeria.pdf [accessed 24 April 2012] VOODOO AND THE
TRAFFICKING BUSINESS
- Another major factor oiling the wheel of trafficking in the country is
voodoo. Insiders in the trafficking business say once arrangements for victims’
trips abroad are completed, traffickers seal the deal by taking the victims
to shrines of voodoo priests for oath taking. There, victims are made to
swear that they would never reveal the identities of their traffickers to
anyone if arrested whether in the course of the journey or in the destination
countries. A repented former
trafficker confirmed that voodoo, known as juju in the Nigerian parlance, is
playing a great but nauseating role in the human trafficking business. When traffickers
are arrested in Inside the Nigerian transnational human
trafficking industry Musikilu Mojeed,
The Punch, 16 Oct 2008 archive.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200810152335195 [accessed 24 April 2012] The last people in
the chain are the big madams based in the destination countries. On arrival
in the destination countries, they seized the passports of the victims and
give the boys out as domestic servants to patrons who need their services
while the girls are made to work as prostitutes. The traffickers receive
payments from patrons while the girls are made to sleep with them. Our source
said the girls pay between 60 and 80,000 Euros to their madam to get their
freedom. Dr. Esohe Aghatise, who has done
extensive work on trafficking, said when Nigerian girls arrive in Also, according to Aghatise, the girls are expected to pay about 516 Euros
to their madams per month to rent the roadside spot there they wait for
clients in extreme weather conditions. They are also expected to contribute
about 36 Euros weekly each for their feeding and buying of provocative
clothing. ”When we don‘t earn the money our madam wants, she presses a hot
iron on our chests,” Aghatise quoted one Stella, a
former victim, who was rescued by an NGO, Associatione
Papa Giovanni, as having revealed. Between 1994 and 1998, about 116 Nigerian
girls are said to have died on the streets of 45-yr-old woman arrested over alleged child
trafficking Nigerian Tribune, July 29, 2008 www.tribune.com.ng/29072008/news/news21.html [access date unavailable] The officer of the
NSCDC in charge of Ekiti axis, Mr. Jolayemi Samuel, told newsmen that the suspect claimed
that the 26 children were pupils and students in However, he said
some of the children said they were being taken to A tortuous tale of human trafficking Clare Short, [accessed 13 December 2010] I asked what her
problem was, and she said it was very complicated. She then started to weep
quietly, big silent tears sliding down her cheeks. More than ten years ago,
she was offered a job in When she got to Back home, the gang
that trafficked her said she must repay $45,000. She
explained that she had no money. They then burnt down her father’s house and
later beat her so badly that she spent three months in hospital. She then
escaped by coming to the Poverty, responsible for human trafficking
– Imoke Leadership ( allafrica.com/stories/200805270509.html [partially accessed 9 September 2011 -
access restricted] According to her,
various researches indicate that the root cause of the phenomenon of
trafficking is poverty, ignorance, civil strife, and greed. She also said
that one of the causes identified in Human trafficking endangers Nigeria's
future — Immigration John Ighodaro,
Vanguard, allafrica.com/stories/200805270077.html [partially accessed 9 September 2011 -
access restricted] Speaking on the
occasion of a workshop on human trafficking convened by Nigeria Immigration
Service, Cross River State Command and the Calabar
Municipal Government, Dr. Popoola said,
“Trafficking in persons, which has received global attention in recent times,
is rated the second largest illegal and organised
crime in the world after drugs in terms of revenue earnings.” He noted that in U.N. Integrated Regional Information
Networks IRIN, allafrica.com/stories/200805210663.html [partially accessed 9 September 2011 -
access restricted] The girls, who are
from four southern Nigerian states Edo, Akwa Ibom, Anambra and Delta, told the
officials that Osagie arranged with their parents
to take them to Libya to work as maids for US$1,272 fees each, which they
would pay in instalments from their wages. "The work promise is a ruse. The truth
of the matter is that they were going to pay the fees from the money they
would make from prostitution in "Our
investigation shows that 40 percent of trafficked girls repatriated to Philip Nyam,
Leadership ( allafrica.com/stories/200803281320.html [partially accessed 9 September 2011 -
access restricted] Despite the fact
that Ahmed Mohammed, Daily Trust, 8 February
2008 allafrica.com/stories/200802080545.html [partially accessed 9 September 2011 -
access restricted] The 'anti human
trafficking piracy special Investigation unit' of the FCT police command has
so far rescued 105 teenagers between the ages of five to thirteen years from
human traffickers, in different places in Abuja. He said the
children were trafficked from Nassarawa, Lagos,
Kano, Kwara and some villages within the FCT to be
used as sex slaves and child labourers within the
Motor Parks, Markets and restaurants in Abuja, which contravenes section 19
of the 'Trafficking Act in Persons'. Musa disclosed
further that one of the suspects, Amina Adamu actually confessed that she kidnapped the victims
to the FCT for prostitution as well as to be used as slaves, for her to get
money. Abdullahi M. Gulloma, Daily Trust, allafrica.com/stories/200711220512.html [partially accessed 9 September 2011 -
access restricted] The Minister of
Labour, Dr. Hassan Muhammad Lawal, said Tuesday
that Dr. Lawal also expressed concern that most anti-trafficking programmes focus on trafficking for sexual exploitation,
saying that the campaigns are "too narrow in scope." "ILO estimates
further indicate that 80 percent of forced labour in the African region is
for economic exploitation and only 8 percent for commercial sexual
exploitation," he said. Atika Balal,
Daily Trust, allafrica.com/stories/200711191161.html [partially accessed 9 September 2011 -
access restricted] The phenomenon of
human trafficking in While lots of
people blame poverty or culture as a basis for human trafficking in Accused human trafficker fights extradition Andrew Hough, Reuters, uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL2522605520071025 [accessed 13 December 2010] It was part of an
international police operation that led to another 19 people being arrested
in Daily Champion, allafrica.com/stories/200708160019.html [partially accessed 9 September 2011 -
access restricted] Head of National
Agency for the Prohibition and Trafficking in Persons and other Related
Matters (NAPTIP), The victims who are mainly teenagers, he added, engaged in
prostitution overseas. 95 women arrested for alleged human
trafficking The Tide Online, Aug 4, 2007 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9 September 2011] “These teenage
girls were brought into Lawyer jailed for human trafficking BreakingNews.ie, 26/07/2007 www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/lawyer-jailed-for-human-trafficking-320681.html [accessed 13 December 2010] He said taking all
this into account, Ilori’s crime wasn’t at the
highest end of the scale but added that "it was undoubtedly the
case" that he brought twelve Mauritian nationals into the country
knowing they were illegal. Judge Nolan
said he accepted that there was a scheme in place and said that although
there were others involved, Ilori was an actor in
it and made financial gains through it.
He said that these Mauritian nationals suffered because they paid out
quite a bit of money and left their native country believing they had work
available here. Curtailing human trafficking in Ebonyi okoroamadi, July 20, 2007 www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-67320.0.html#msg1309114 [accessed 13 December 2010] The question
bugging the minds of many remains, is human trafficking on the increase in It is worthy to
note that despite the effort being made by the Federal Government to stem the
rising tide of human trafficking, the menace has not abated. Voice of www.voanews.com/content/a-13-2007-07-18-voa50-66565717/555170.html [accessed 2 September 2012] The Nigerian police
intercepted a truck in the country's south carrying the potential child
laborers to "We have
secured 12 convictions; we have not lost any case since this thing
started," said Oraukwe. "We cannot let
this matter go down like that, especially when it is not just Rescued human trafficking victims go on
hunger strike Nigerian Tribune, July 18, 2007 www.tribune.com.ng/18072007/news/news7.html [access date unavailable] One of the victims,
Mr. Godfrey Ayima, said since they were brought in
by the police, they had not been fed or allowed to take their bath, saying
they were detained with hardened criminals and the girls made to pass the
night in the same cells with boys. Media onslaught against child trafficking Ponte, News Agency of At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9 September 2011] In a remote jungle
of “Now the land is
cursing us, and we want to return home, but it is becoming increasingly
difficult,” says one of them, amidst sobs, through an interpreter. These hapless children, adored in the
African tradition and seen as a great asset to the family and the community,
have been trafficked internally, becoming labourers
in another man’s empire. Trafficking of African women is thriving Francois Tillinac,
Independent Online (IOL) News, May 10 2007 www.iol.co.za/news/africa/trafficking-of-african-women-is-thriving-1.352453 [accessed 13 December 2010] In January Italian
police smashed several human trafficking rings involving African and eastern
European females and netted some 800 suspects. She said young
girls were lured with fraudulent offers of jobs in Inside Cable News Network CNN, September 16, 2006 transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/16/i_if.01.html [accessed 13 December 2010] Gooday Akhimiona is a juju or black magic priest, accused of
helping traffickers by instilling fear in human trafficking victims, mostly
girls between the ages of 12 and 25. GOODAY AKHIMIONA,
JUJU PRIEST:
Presenting my power. If I say something, (inaudible). PUREFOY: Victims say
they're forced through bloody and degrading juju rituals, and made to swear
oaths of secrecy. One victim, rescued by her cousin while on her way to Court jails father of five for human
trafficking U.N. Integrated Regional Information
Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=61221 [accessed 13 December 2010] A court in the
southern Nigerian city of Human Trafficking on the Rise in Bala Muhammad Makosa (babanjawad), OhmyNews, 2006-09-27 english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=319325&rel_no=1 [accessed 13 December 2010] Despite the effort
being made by the Nigerian government to stem the rising tide of human
trafficking, the menace has not abated.
Police authorities disclosed on Sept. 24 that two people who offered
to buy a six-year-old girl for 600,000 Nigerian naira (U.S.$4,680)
were being questioned in This disclosure
followed the arrest of six people, including a medical doctor, for alleged
involvement in the sale of children. Nigeria/West Adeze Ojukwu,
Deputy News Editor, Daily Champion ( [accessed 24 April 2012] With increasing
incidence of trafficking in children, particularly girls for sex and domestic
work, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that the
incidence of child labour in Nigeria for persons aged 10 to 14 years is
approximately 12 million. "In the
South-West, a greater number of girls and women end up in prostitution, while
in the East, the problem affects mainly boys who find themselves
trafficking into agricultural, domestic, trading and apprenticeship
jobs," the report said. Also 60 per cent of
women trafficking victims for commercial sex in Ekemini Yemi-Ladejobi,
Daily Champion ( At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9 September 2011] Clara, 13, was
picked up by her aunty having agreed with her parents that she will work as a
house help somewhere in As agreed, Clara
was handed over in exchange for money, part of which was sent to her parents
as salary for two years. Soon after the deal was sealed, Clara began her
journey to Child Traffickers Jailed Yinka Kolawole,
This Day, 20 July 2006 www.childright.nl/en/index2.php?navid=6&newsid=39 [accessed 13 December 2010] Eight child
traffickers are already serving jail terms ranging from three to seven years
in different prisons across the country for child trafficking offences. Head, Investigation and Monitoring Unit of
the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Mallam Mohammed Babandede, said
this in his paper at a one-day workshop on Public Awareness Campaigns and
Advocacy on Trafficking in Women and Children, organised
for Journalists in Osun, Kano and Cross River by
WOTCLEF. Babandede said women and children
trafficking are now serious offences since 2003, when NAPTIP was
established. He said 20 people are now
behind bars, while 25 cases are still on-going in various courts. State leads in child trafficking and
prostitution Okon Bassey,
This Day, 9 August 2006 www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=9704&flag=news [accessed 13 December 2010] 27 human trafficking victims get vocational
training [access information unavailable] The girls, between the
ages of five and 16 years were among the 40 trafficked children intercepted
by the Nigeria Police in a containerized truck in May 2005 from Edati en-route Immigration service to sensitise
Bayelsans on human trafficking The Tide News, July 24, 2006 nm.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=8154&z=17 [accessed 13 December 2010] The comptroller
expressed dismay over the rate at which parents and guardians in rural areas
gave out their children and wards to unsuspecting relations and other
individuals to serve as helpers. He
explained that the relations and others who took these children to the urban centres to help them often ended up enslaving them. “Some of the relations even sell the
children out to other countries without the consent of their parents and
guardians,” he said. Jonathan tasks govt
on human trafficking Samuel Oyadongha,
Vanguard, Yenagoa, 18 July 2006 allafrica.com/stories/200607180240.html [partially accessed 9 September 2011 -
access restricted] Vanguard, July 12, 2006 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 9 September 2011] A source close to
the policeman said that the modus operandi of
most of the prostitution rings is the same. Usually they would approach natives of some villages near Abudu in NASS amends Human Trafficking Law Daily africansinamericainc.org/a/p/news/news0043.html [accessed 13 December 2010] The 2003 law on human
trafficking has been amended by the National Assembly to allow for the
prohibition of domestic labour in the country. Nigerian ladies rescued from prostitution
syndicate’s den in Burkina Faso Chris Anucha and
Matthew Dike, Daily Sun, February 2, 2006 www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/32957-u-s-congress-apologises-slavery.html [accessed 2 September 2012] [scroll down] Tony was said to
have promised to take Rita and Lovina to Germany,
to meet their elder sister who resides in that country, but the journey ended
up in Burkina Faso where he told them they were brought to the country for
prostitution. Story that touches the heart : Why
prostitution rate is rising Chioma Obinna,
Vanguard, December 31, 2005 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 9 September 2011] She said at the age
of 16, her aunt came from Dream of freedom turns to prostitution
nightmare U.N. Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=57008 [accessed 9 September 2011] "Two people working
in an apparently-normal travel agency arranged my journey. But once we
arrived in Trafficked Women in Catholic News Service CNS, www.georgiabulletin.org/world/2005/06/22/WORLD-5/ [accessed 13 December 2010] Women smuggled into
Help Sought to Combat Brian Murphy, Associated Press AP Religion
Writer, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 9 September 2011] Maria's case
illustrates one of the least understood corners of the sex slavery
underworld: gangs using the perceived potency of native West African voodoo
and hexes to hold women in their grip. Recently, however, an unusual alliance
has started fighting back. Nigerians Held For Trafficking news24.com, [accessed 13 December 2010] Human trafficking
and the sale of human body parts are rampant in WANTED: the right to refuse Maffie Black, New
Internationalist 337, August 2001 www.newint.org/features/2001/08/05/wanted/ [accessed 13 December 2010] Take a look at article
one of the Supplementary Convention on Slavery and you will see as one
definition: ‘Any practice whereby a woman, without the right to refuse, is
given in marriage in payment of a consideration in money or in kind ...’ How about a story?
Just one, about Hauwa Abukar,
a Nigerian girl who died aged 12. Her family had married her to an older man
to whom they owed money. She was unhappy and kept running away, but because
of the debt her parents were obliged to return her. Finally, her husband
chopped off her legs with an axe to prevent her absconding again. She died
from starvation, shock and loss of blood. No legal action was taken. Fighting The Many Heads Of The
Child-Trafficking Beast U.N. Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/Report/53501/NIGERIA-Fighting-the-many-heads-of-the-child-trafficking-beast [accessed 24 April 2012] "While the challenge
of women and children being trafficked to Europe remains in the limelight, a
big problem is the children being used as domestic help in big cities and
towns within Children's Rescue Highlights Joe Bavier, Voice
of www.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-2005-03-08-voa28-67524192.html [accessed 14 December 2010] It was a
refrigerated truck, normally used for shipping frozen fish,
that a police surveillance team stopped in Child Trafficking: Police Go After
Victims' Parents Emma Nnadozie and
Evelyn Usman, Vanguard, allafrica.com/stories/printable/200503090484.html [partially accessed 9 September 2011 -
access restricted] Police in The State Police spokesman , Mr Ademola Adebayo, who took journalists to the scene of the
incident, vowed that the necessary provisions of the law would be applied on
the parents of the rescued children. James Owen for National Geographic Channel,
February 10, 2005 news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0210_020510_tv_witchcraft.html [accessed 14 December 2010] In September 2001 a
gruesome discovery was made in Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 5 Civil
Liberties: 4 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/nigeria [accessed 27 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch [accessed 14 December 2010] Library of Congress Call Number DT515.22
.N53 1992 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ngtoc.html [accessed 14 December 2010] Container kids 'to be sold as slaves' www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-19036675_ITM [accessed 14 December 2010] Nigerian police
found more than 60 children packed into a shipping container in The children were
in a container normally used for carrying fish, said police spokesman
Emmanuel Ighodalo in Human traffickers from Nigeria The Economist, www.economist.com/node/2618421?story_id=2618421 [accessed 14 December 2010] The market in No one knows how
many are shipped out each year, but everyone in Allan Little, BBC correspondent news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3632203.stm [accessed 14 December 2010] It starts with the
promise of a better life. The parents
are taken in. The children are persuaded. When they leave home they do so
willingly, with some excitement, not trepidation. The trafficker has promised a good job, a schooling, a regular income. But that is not how it
works out. Children in Slavery August 27, 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 9 September 2011] [scroll down] [August 27, 2004] In The long road to freedom Sue MacGregor,
The Independent, April 13th, 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 9 September 2011] [scroll down] Thousands of young
Nigerians are sold into slavery every year. Sue MacGregor
made a hazardous journey to meet the victims of this brutal trade, and the
campaigners fighting against it. Each year, more
than 200,000 Nigerian children are forcibly taken from their homes to be put
to work. Some go with the permission of their parents, and some do not. Many,
especially boys who may be as young as five or six, end up as household
slaves far from home, or as agricultural workers on smallholdings or in
quarries, where they break large lumps of granite with heavy iron hammers and
earn little more than a few cents a day. The dust they inhale will do them
lasting damage. Some, especially the younger ones, die as a result; others
end up with terrible scars, both physical and psychological. The girls who
are taken may end up in domestic service, but many become prostitutes,
perhaps in The lost children of Jonathan Clayton in www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1055750.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1 [accessed 14 December 2010] Voodoo is used to
control children sold into slavery by their parents. Rita’s eyes opened
wide as she described the voodoo ceremony intended to condemn her to a life
of prostitution. “The witch doctor
took some of my nails, and hair. He cut the heart of a chicken into small
pieces and mixed it all into a potion with a local gin brew. I had to drink
it,” she whispered. “I was so frightened. I knew death would come if I
betrayed the oath.” Rita, then 15, was
told that she must never run away from her “sponsors” or go to the police.
“If I did, the Gods would take advantage of me, or my parents,” she said. Her mother had
taken Rita to the ceremony. After paying for her daughter to be taken to Slavery fears for 'lost' children Matthew Chapman, BBC Radio Five Live, 15
February 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3489935.stm [accessed 14 December 2010] There are fears
that large numbers of children may be trafficked into Campaigners fear thousands of
children are being used as domestic slaves after being brought into 'AUNTS' AND 'UNCLES' - The vast
majority of the children were from Scale of African slavery revealed BBC News, 23 April 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3652021.stm [accessed 14 December 2010] The report, which
covers 53 African nations, says children are the biggest victims in what is a
very complex phenomenon. It describes
how they are forced into slavery, recruited as child soldiers or sold into
prostitution. And the trade is
often in both directions. COMPLICITY - Much of this
trade in children often has the tacit collaboration of the victims' own
families where it is seen not so much as criminal activity but as a way for a
large family to boost its poor income. Slavery abounds, U.N. 'remembers' From Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, WorldNetDaily, January 19, 2004 www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36657 [accessed 14 December 2010] The book also
contains interviews with Arab slave traders, who sustain that the sharia
(Islamic law) authorizes them to enslave children and relatives of men with
whom they are at war. They state that they sell slaves to Arabs in other
countries. Despite concerted
efforts by the Women Trafficking and Child Labor Eradication Foundation to
curb the growth of traffic in persons, it continues to boom with large
numbers of victims and suspects deported to Child slaves rescued from The Associated Press AP, September 27, 2003 www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/child-slaves-rescued-nigeria [accessed 9 September 2011] On this date in 2003
116 Black African boys were rescued from a slave labor camp in This initial
intervention stemmed from increased international attention to child labor.
The attention includes boycott threats of 120 child workers repatriated to U.N. Integrated Regional Information
Networks IRIN, 15 Oct 2003 www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=46718 [accessed 14 December 2010] This was the second
batch of child workers to be repatriated from Child labor on cocoa farms 'tip of the
iceberg' Human Rights Watch, www.hrw.org/en/news/2003/04/01/west-africa-stop-trafficking-child-labor [accessed 14 December 2010] Young Togolese boys
told Human Rights Watch they could not afford to pay school fees and so
agreed to do agricultural work in Life Sentence for Human Traffickers Toye Olori,
Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=19418 [accessed 14 December 2010] More than 45,000
Nigerians are transported to Child Labour Persists Around The World:
More Than 13 Percent Of Children 10-14 Are Employed International Labour Organisation (ILO)
News, www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/news/WCMS_008058/lang--en/index.htm [accessed 9 September 2011] "Today's child
worker will be tomorrow's uneducated and untrained adult, forever trapped in
grinding poverty. No effort should be spared to break that vicious
circle", says ILO Director-General Michel Hansenne. Among the countries
with a high percentage of their children from 10-14 years in the work force
are: Mali, 54.5 percent; Burkina Faso, 51; Niger and Uganda, both 45; Kenya,
41.3; Senegal, 31.4; Bangladesh, 30.1; Nigeria,
25.8; Haiti, 25; Turkey, 24; Côte d'Ivoire, 20.5; Pakistan, 17.7; Brazil,
16.1; India, 14.4; China, 11.6; and Egypt, 11.2. All
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