Assessment of Human Trafficking and National Policies and Its Elimination in Nigeria
Assessment of Human Trafficking and National Policies and Its Elimination in Nigeria
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study
Human trafficking is defined as the trade of people for the purpose of forced labor, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. [UNODC, 2011] This can include providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage,[CHILD TRAFFICKING FOR FORCED MARRIAGE, 2013], or the extraction of organs or tissues, including for surrogacy and ova removal. Human trafficking is a crime against the person because it violates the victim's right to movement through coercion and commercial exploitation. [Liam,2018] Human trafficking is the trade in people, particularly women and children, and does not always involve the movement of the person from one place to another. [state department,...
