JUNE 28, 2018- For the second year in a row, Nigeria has received a ‘Tier 2 Watchlist’ placement on the United State’s Department of State 2018 Trafficking In Persons (TIP) Report, which was released today. The TIP Report ranks countries in tiers based on their government’s efforts to fight human trafficking. As a Tier 2 […]
Pathfinders’ R. Evon Idahosa Retained as Consultant to UN at Human Rights Council Session 2018
June 21, 2018- At the 38th United Nations’ Human Rights Council Session, which commenced at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on June 18, 2018, Pathfinders’ R. Evon Idahosa served as a consultant to the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Trafficking, participating in a side event relating to the global trafficking of women and girls, […]
Pathfinders’ R. Evon Idahosa Serves as Contributing Writer to CPA UK’s e-Handbook on Modern Day Slavery
We are honoured to announce that Pathfinders’ R. Evon Idahosa, Esq. is a contributing writer to the UK Home Office’s (via @CPA_UK’s Modern Slavery Project) newly launched e-Handbook on #ModernDaySlavery entitled: Legislating against Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking & Forced Labour. The e-handbook is a comprehensive guide for parliamentarians and parliamentary officials on legislating effectively against modern […]
Italy Closes Ports to MSF’s Aquarius Carrying 600+ Sub-Saharan African Migrants
SICILY, ITALY- Aquarius, Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF) Mediterranean rescue ship, carrying more than 600 rescued migrants from Eritrea, Nigeria, Ghana and Sudan (including 123 unaccompanied minors and seven pregnant women), was stranded on the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, June 11, 2018, following Italy’s new populist government’s decision to close its ports on Sunday, June 10, […]
Edo State Human Trafficking Bill Signed Into Law by Governor Obaseki
ABUJA, NIGERIA. On May 23, 2018, the Governor of Edo State, His Excellency, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, signed into law the Edo State Trafficking in Persons Prohibition Bill (2018) in Abuja. The new Act, which was approved by the Edo State House of Assembly in March (just shortly after the Oba of Benin’s pronouncement on March […]
Pathfinders’ R. Evon Idahosa is Speaker at New York University’s (Florence) Symposium on Sex Trafficking From Nigeria to Italy
FLORENCE, ITALY- on May 10, 2018, in partnership with Vital Voices and New York University (Florence) (La Pietra Dialogues), Pathfinders’ R. Evon Idahosa addressed the issue of sex trafficking from Nigeria to Italy at a symposium hosted by New York University (Florence). At the symposium entitled, “Trafficking In Women from Nigeria to Italy- A Crisis […]
PJI Survivors Hone Their Accounting Skills and Learn How To Brand Their Small Businesses
Every woman has a story. We are honored to journey with survivors of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation as they emerge from victim to survivor to business owner. Beyond rescuing women from trafficking, we also employ an economic development methodology to ensure that survivors are slave-proof, i.e., no longer vulnerable to being retrafficked. This requires, among […]
Nigeria: Human Trafficking Legal Framework
Relevant Legal Framework for HUMAN TRAFFICKING in NIGERIA Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Law Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015 National Policy on Protection and Assistance to Trafficked Persons in Nigeria (2008) Guidelines on National Referral Mechanism for Protection and Assistance to Trafficked Persons in Nigeria (NRM) (2015) Child Rights Act, 2003 Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act (2015) Labour Act (1974) Criminal Code (Sections 223, […]
His Majesty the Oba of Benin Renounces Curses on Victims of Human Trafficking
BENIN CITY, EDO STATE- His Majesty, the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II (the supreme spiritual of the Benin Kingdom), summoned all Benin Chiefs and native doctors in the Benin Kingdom to his palace for an emergency meeting in Benin City on March 9, 2018, wherein he renounced all curses that had been placed on victims […]
Pathfinders and WOFS (Abuja) Provide Hearts of Hope Support for IDPs at Gwoza-Bama IDP Camp, Abuja
ABUJA, NIGERIA. On March 3, 2017 and in partnership with Word of Faith School (Abuja), Pathfinders organised an outreach which provided almost 300 Hearts of Hope packages (food, clothing and basic hygiene items) to survivors of the Boko Haram insurgency at the Gwoza-Bama IDP Camp in Abuja (Area 1), Nigeria. The camp is currently hosting 2,700 survivors in Nigeria’s […]