Ending cross-border human trafficking, urges governments to end cross-border human trafficking

Former UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Professor Joy Ezeilo, has called on government at all levels to establish early warning mechanisms to end the pervasive and cross-border problem of human trafficking or of human trafficking in Nigeria.

Ezeilo, Executive Director of Women Aid Collective and Senior Advocate for Nigeria (SAN), said this in a statement issued on Saturday in Enugu, reacting to the trending video of young Nigerian girls, mainly from Imo State, being victims of trafficking for forced prostitution in neighboring countries. Ghana.

She said setting up an early warning system would identify cases where girls disappear from school, fail to enroll in school or live out of care family, urging government at all levels to implement urgent measures to address root causes, with a view to reducing vulnerabilities. young girls.

“Watching the trending video of young Nigerian girls, mainly from Imo State, being trafficked for forced prostitution to neighboring Ghana is a stark reminder of the pervasive and cross-border problem of human trafficking or human trafficking,” she said.

Ezeilo revealed that from 2008 to 2014, when she served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, she met Nigerians being trafficked or living as irregular migrants in almost 100 countries she visited in the part of its global mission.

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