The madam locked Adaura in a room without food for four days and threatened to kill her. She told Human Rights Watch: Promise E., trafficked from Nigeria to Italy in 2002 when she was 25 years old, told Human Rights Watch:Â. Joy P. described being trafficked at age 12 from her home in Anambra State to Lagos State by a woman who deceived her, saying she would help with her education while she took care of her children. Implement laws and policies that promote gender equality, and address legal gaps. She did not give me food. They killed those who refused [to become Muslims], plus my Ghanaian boyfriend and threw them into the river. This report does not address sex work, which is the commercial exchange of sexual services between consenting adults. The agency and the law have helped to improve investigation and prosecution of trafficking cases. Jane O. was trafficked by her boyfriend to Italy, where she was forced into prostitution. [237] OHCHR, “Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking,” 2002, p. 133. However, Human Rights Watch learned of poor coordination and lack of clarity about responsibilities among government ministries and agencies. [79] Human Rights Watch interview with Mary W., Benin, August 3, 2017. Rehabilitative services should be both individual and collective. At the rehab they do not cook for us. Their journeys were wrought with death, rape, beatings, fear, theft, extortion, and lack of food and water. [99] Human Rights Watch interview with Morenike Omaiboje, programs manager, Women’s Consortium of Nigeria, Benin, May 19, 2017. Women’s Rights Division, and edited by Janet Walsh, deputy executive director in the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. She was returned to Nigeria by IOM. We are not allowed to go to NAPTIP. [186] Human Rights Watch interview (details withheld upon request), Benin, October 7, 2019. In addition, many organizations offer a limited standard package of trainings, which are not tailored to survivors’ individual needs, situations, interests, or capacities. [65] “Nigeria: Heightened Insecurity Threatens Rights,” Human Rights Watch news release, January 17, 2019, https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/01/17/nigeria-heightened-insecurity-threatens-rights. Such programs present important, cost-effective opportunities for fostering reintegration, reducing stigma, and providing long-term assistance for survivors. They took Adaura to an underground prison and forced her to marry a man who raped her. 25. [174] According to the National Policy on Protection and Assistance to Trafficked Persons in Nigeria, one of the objectives of keeping victims in shelters is “To offer cultural, spiritual and vocational guidance.” NAPTIP, “National Policy on Protection and Assistance to Trafficked Persons in Nigeria,” p. 10. One afternoon they said we leave. Okokon estimates that there are around 700-1,000 sex trafficking victims who need help in the Asti region of Italy. After four days, I accepted. [225], In terms of regional law, under the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol), Nigeria has specific obligations to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women; adopt measures to ensure the prevention, punishment, and eradication of all forms of violence against women; prevent trafficking, protect women most at risk, and prosecute perpetrators of trafficking; and protect women from exploitation by their employers. [226], Remedies are an important part of the international legal response to trafficking. We asked, “Why?” She said we had to do sex work. I do it until the person is okay.”[112]. She told Time magazine, “The Libyans understood that if the EU doesn’t want blacks to come, it means we are not valuable as humans…The EU is essentially rewarding these militias for abusing us, for raping us, for killing us and for selling us.” March 2018.Â, Progetto Integrazione Accoglienza Migranti (PIAM) co-founder, Inyang Okokon, was trafficked to Turin from Nigeria in 1999. Adaura said she was ill, in pain, and bleeding as her madam left her with this man. However, some information is available on estimated numbers of smuggled migrants along certain routes. [45] Ibid., pp. I do not know how I can reach them. Â, —Ebunoluwa E., 18, trafficking survivor in a NAPTIP shelter, Lagos, July 25, 2017. If they need counseling beyond six weeks, if we can handle it, fine.”[165]. She brought men to sleep with us. Some are in bondage for three years; others their cases are not serious. Anti-trafficking measures should not adversely affect the human rights and dignity of persons and, in particular, the rights of those who have been trafficked.” OHCHR, “Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking,” 2002, https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Traffickingen.pdf (accessed August 7, 2019). [184] It also significantly relies on the services of NGOs that get no government funds and only limited international donor funds.Â, A representative of an NGO offering reintegration support to trafficking survivors told Human Rights Watch, “Lack of funding is our main problem. She said she did not care; all she wanted is her money. It guarantees a number of rights for trafficked persons, including the right to compensation and restitution, and includes penalties for offenders.[197]. Take into account age, literacy, and disability-specific needs; the economic and psychosocial impact of raising children born from trafficking-related sexual violence; and whether they are in child or female-headed households.