Nigeria: Human Trafficking Legal Framework

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6 years ago

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, 224, 365, 366, 369)
Edo State Criminal Code (Amendment) Law, 2000 (Section 223A) (It is anticipated that this law will soon be repealed and replaced by Edo State’s new anti-trafficking law which was unanimously adopted by the Edo State House of Assembly on March 14, 2018 and signed into law on May 23, 2018 by Governor Godwin Obaseki.)
Edo State Trafficking In Persons Prohibition Act (2018)
Penal Code (Sections 275, 278-280)
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Sections 17, 34, 42)
Immigration Act, 1963 (Section 1, G-H), 2015 + Immigration Regulation, 2017
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children (Article 3)
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2000
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1990
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), 1981 (Article 6)
African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Enforcement) Act, 2004
ECOWAS Declaration and Plan of Action Against Trafficking in Persons, 2001
Forced Labour Convention (1930)
Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138)
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182)