Human trafficking

More Nigerian women are being sucked into Italy’s dangerous world of sex trafficking

Despite work by local and international NGOs, Italy remains a thriving destination for sex trafficking and a majority of the victims are Nigerian women.

According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), there has been a “huge increase” in the number of Nigerian women arriving in Italy by boat from Libya. Carlotta Santarossa, counter-trafficking project manager at IOM says a majority of the arriving women are “victims of trafficking and are likely to end up exploited in Italy or other European countries.”

In the last three years, there’s been an almost ten-fold increase in the number of Nigerian women registered at landing points in Sicily.