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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...
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...