In this report from Rai 1 News, the mayor of Chiusano d’Asti explains the Agape project, a network of villages that join the SPRAR (Protection System for Asylum Seekers and Refugees), in cooperation with Piam Onlus. All of...
The 21st Century Gold Rush
How the refugee crisis is changing the world economy. By Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie
The biggest refugee crisis in recorded history has engulfed continents, swung elections and fueled the rise of nativism. It has also...
Progetto Integrazione Accoglienza Migranti (PIAM) is a organization for migrants's rights and anti-trafficking located in Asti, a small town near Turin.
In 1999 Princess Okokon and her husband Alberto Mossino started their activity by trying to give a concrete answer to...
It’s just after 9pm when the first Nigerian women start to appear on the streets of Asti, a small city near Turin in northern Italy. Some stand in groups of two or three, flagging down passing cars or checking...
In 2016, the International Organization for Migration has identified 11,000 victims of trafficking in Europe. Women are tricked with false promises of work only to be forced into prostitution. Arriving in Europe at the age of 24, Princess suffered...
Leila Segal, Founder of Voice of Freedom, on her experience of working with trafficked women.
I remembered why I set up Voice of Freedom, when Rose*, the Nigerian woman I was sharing a room with at the shelter, who had...
Taking of trade victims seekers for asylum in Piedmont.
The phenomenon.
In recent years, Nigerian traffickers have used Libyan routes to bring thousands of women into Europe for exploitation, such as prostitution. Potential victims are often hidden in the mass of...
Life of forced prostitution awaits majority of the 11,009 Nigerian women who arrived on Italy’s shores last year, says International Organisation for Migration.
The number of Nigerian women travelling by boat from Libya to Italy almost doubled last year, with...
Thousands of women and girls are being trafficked to Italy from Nigeria, into a life of forced prostitution. Abused and desperately vulnerable, they have a champion in Princess Okokon, who was herself trafficked from Nigeria in 1999. Okokon fled...
UN says 80% of the Nigerian women who came to Italy by boat in the first half of 2016 will be trafficked into prostitution.
The trafficking of Nigerian women from Libya to Italy by boat is reaching “crisis” levels, with...