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...
African women seeking a better life in Europe face a long, perilous, often fatal journey across the Mediterranean. But when they do arrive, they confront yet another threatening prospect: conscription into sex slavery. Eighty percent of all Nigerian women...
Interview with Chiara Sambuchi
I always feel a sense of impotence when I approach the sufferance of others. I feel it very intensively every time I start a new documentary film project, by which I know I'll face other human...
Thousands of unaccompanied child migrants are arriving in Europe each year — tricked by false promises of a better life. Instead, many find themselves trafficked into prostitution and slavery. Christina Lamb reports.
The wooden fishing boat, jam-packed with stick-figure people...
Size of the problem and results obtained by Piam.
In March 2014, following the first wave of landings of refugees from Libya, 40 African boys arrived in Asti. We were equipped in a hurry, prompted by the emergency to give...
In the regional news dated April 2014, there was a press report about Settime, a small village near Asti where are many migrants welcomed, as said by the 2014 major of the town Guido Rosina and by Alberto Mossino,...
Size of the problem and results obtained by Piam
Piedmont is one of the regions with the largest presence of women on the roads; the situation in Asti certainly does not differ from the regional one: only in the last...
Trust Conference is committed to finding real solutions to empower women and to fight slavery worldwide. The annual event brings together global corporations, lawyers, government representatives, and pioneers in the field of women’s rights and anti-slavery.
The 2016 annual conference...