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By APOLINARI TAIRO Tanzania has approved amendments to the local anti-human trafficking laws to include tougher penalties such as lifetime jail-terms and fines of up to Tsh200 million ($86,000). Attorney General Dr Eliezer Feleshi said the country needed to implement punitive measures to effectively shut down the vice. Read: UK, Dar partner to fight child trafficking…
Sean Douglas Donna Cox MINISTER of Social Development Donna Cox has warned that human traffickers were using social media to try to ensnare youngsters and adults into a life of exploitation. She was speaking on Wednesday at the Brix Hotel, St Ann’s, at the launch of Heal, Empower, Rise Counter Trafficking in Persons (HER CTIP)…
This article is reprinted from its original location at Hope for Justice‘s website. It was pulled from their RSS feed for your education. Visit Hope for Justice’s news page by clicking here. Hope for Justice’s Film Producer, Gomolemo Nyakale, recently returned from a visit to Moldova where he was helping to document the situation in…
30 July marks the United Nations World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. This day was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution A/RES/68/192 in 2013. The United Nations member states declared that such a day was necessary to raise awareness of the situation of victims of human trafficking and for the promotion…
A United Kingdom-based Nigerian, Dr Olalekan Ogungbemi, has revealed that poverty, unemployment and inadequate funding for relevant agencies to enable them discharge their functions effectively were the reasons for human trafficking in Nigeria and Africa in general. Ogungbemi, a renowned public health expert, disclosed this to our correspondent in Lafia, on Saturday, while giving an…
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has secured the conviction of 70 persons involved in human trafficking in Edo and Delta states. NAPTIP Commander in Edo, Nduka Nwanene, disclosed this yesterday in Benin during a sensitisation workshop for traditional and religious leaders on irregular migration and human trafficking organised by…
The disclosure by the Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Fatima Waziri-Azi, that over 20,000 Nigerian women and girls are currently stranded in mining areas in Mali, shows that human trafficking is still on the rise. Waziri-Azi, who made the revelation, pointed out that the majority of the…
The Federal Government has repatriated another 166 stranded Nigerans from Libya who were victims of human trafficking. Mr Kabiru Musa, Charge d’ Affairs of the Nigerian Mission in Libya said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja. Musa said that the 166 evacuees departed Mitiga…
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