Europe Spends Billions Stopping Migration. Good Luck Figuring Out Where the Money Actually Goes: Dec. 9/2019 This article by The Correspondent highlights how the European Union expended upwards of 770m Euros on fighting unsafe migration and human trafficking from Nigeria. Where has the money gone and has it paid off? Europe is the promised land […]
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Are Nigerians Still the Problem In Europe’s “Migrant Crisis?”
January 31, 2020
JANUARY 31, 2020- LAGOS, NIGERIA. Annually, both IOM and UNHCR meticulously calculate and then publish their figures relating to land and sea arrivals of migrants into Europe. For years, these figures substantiated the European Union’s justification for what it considered a ‘migrant crisis.’ In 2019, IOM reported a total of 128,554 arrivals, while according to […]
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month- Did You Know?
January 5, 2020
JANUARY 2020- January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Did you know? That the average cost globally of a lifetime slave is $90? That human trafficking is a $150 billion industry? That 40 million people at any given moment are currently enslaved, i.e., more than at any other time in history? That human trafficking is often […]
IOM Releases 2019 Statistics for Mediterranean Crossings
January 4, 2020
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND- on January 3, 2020, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), via its Missing Migrants Project, reported that 110,669 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea during 2019, marking the sixth year in a row that at least 100,000 arrivals were recorded on three Mediterranean Sea Routes. According to IOM, that figure is slightly lower […]
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