United States’government has identified Nigeria as a source, transit and destination country for women and children subjected to forced labour and sex trafficking. As a Tier 2 country, Nigeria does not fully comply with Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s minimum standards, but is making significant efforts to bring itself into compliance. In its latest Trafficking in Persons Report released by the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, Nigeria is described as a transit point for West African children subjected to forced labour in the country’s granite mines. The report stated further that West African women were taken through Nigeria to various destinations in Europe and the Middle East, where they are subsequently subjected to forced prostitution. “Nigerian women and girls are subjected to forced prostitution throughout Europe. Nigerian women and children are also recruited and transported to destinations in North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, where they are held captive in the sex trade or in forced labour. Nigerian gangs subject large numbers of Nigerian women to forced prostitution in the Czech Republic and Italy,” the report said.
– Punch
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