Tag: prostitution in numbers
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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...