Legal Response To Women Trafficking In Nigeria
Abstract
Nigerian women are being trafficked mostly for sexual exploitation to Italy and to other destinations including Belgium, France, Spain, Sweden the Netherlands and the former Czechoslovakia; while young girls are trafficked for domestic and agricultural labour from West, East and Central Africa to the Middle East and Europe .This paper aims at revealing the act of women trafficking in Nigeria and the ways the laws had combated it.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/6078
DOI (PDF): http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/g7178
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