The UNVTF-funded project, Asti Contro La Tratta – Asti against Trafficking (A.C.T), targets mass asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean. The project provides integrated assistance to victims of trafficking aged between 16-23 years in the first 60 days upon their arrival in Italy,...
Human Rights Festival
Saturday 25th November, Milan
The human rights festival, with the collaboration of ''WeWorld onlus'' within the range of the 8th edition of the ''WeWorld'' festival dedicated to women rights, organizes, on Saturday 25th of November in Milan, at...
Last year, the number of women making the journey from Nigeria to Italy, via Libya, was almost double that of the year before. But in their attempt to escape crippling poverty, the women end up caught in trafficking rings,...
Every year, thousands of teen-agers from one city in Nigeria risk death and endure forced labor and sex work on the long route to Europe.
By Ben Taub
It was close to midnight on the coast of Libya, a few miles...
The International Organization for Migration has posted a new report on human trafficking. The number of victims has increased by 600 percent in the last two years- most of them being minors. It is destined to be a nightmare.
By...
From Lybia to the Domizio shore, on the border beetween Lazio and Campania: forced to work as prostitutes to pay off the debt for the journey in Italy. "The age of the nigerians on the streets is falling dramatically....
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...