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
1.1Â Â 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,...
