The Fight against Human Trafficking

Abstract

want to extend my thanks to the colleagues at Goettingen University: Tobias Jakobi and Patrick Theiner, who were supportive during the very early stages of this research. I am sure that without thefruitful discussions and constant feedback exchange with all my colleagues and mentors, this book would not exist. I also want to thank my editor Sarah Roughley, for her trust, support, and encouragement through the entire publication process.

Transnational Organised Crimes: An Assessment of Human Trafficking and the Challenges Militating against a Total Elimination in Nigeria

“…Several reasons have been adduced to explain the reasons behind the flourishing of human trafficking globally. Formal indications, economic factors have been identified as the most motivating factor for human trafficking (Ravlik, 2019).A Global Report(GR) on Trafficking in persons published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has estimated economic worth of this crime to be anything in the range of $5billion and $42billion as at 2017 (Bouché and Bailey, 2020).While an IMF report in 2018 indicate that the trade in human trafficking is wart $150.3 billion (IMF,2018). According to Deb et el ,other drivers for human trafficking globally include for the reasons of; sex slaves, organ harvesting, forced labour, mercenary and facilitations of other crimes such as drugs trafficking among others (Deb, Sunny and Majumdar, 2020).…”

“…Human trafficking has come to be the most lucrative illegal global trade, next to the trafficking in arms smuggling and drugs (Benlarabi, 2019). According to Ravlik, the financial returns in human trafficking are honestly very tempting, considering that a -pimp" for instance, can sell one woman as many times as possible, unlike arms or drugs trafficking which have a single face value (Ravlik, 2019). From Fig.…”

“…This has been identified as one of the major reasons human trafficking has continue to thrive ( Efrat, 2016). This position has been collaborated by Warnecke, who identified weak laws, inadequate and enforcement of even the existing laws as a major impediment to the ending of human trafficking (Warnecke, 2019).Relatively, Ravlik points out the problem of different legislation and anti-trafficking measures by different countries, makes the matters so complicated in a unified fight against the crime (Ravlik, 2019). She held the view that this kind of efforts are at crossroads, and counterproductive in the effort at combating this crime.…”

“…She held the view that this kind of efforts are at crossroads, and counterproductive in the effort at combating this crime. She further proposed -the triangulated nexus of anti-trafficking enforcement‖, which should be targeted at running a cross country analysis and combined efforts by clustered countries (Ravlik, 2019).In Nigeria, even though several steps have been taken towards the elimination of the crime of human trafficking, including the establishment of the National Agency for the Prohibition in Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), the battle is still inadequate as the justice system is weak and penalties sometimes less punitive( Abonyi, 2021; Ede, Chiaghanam and Kalu, 2019; Uduji Okolo-Obasi and Asongu, 2019).…”

“…Another factor that has worsened the fight against trafficking in Nigeria is the issue of stigmatization (Eteng et al, 2021;Uduji et al, 2019).The situation is most worrisome especially for women who are victims of sex trafficking for instance, as research shows that they later in life find it difficult to be accepted a hand in marriage, especially for some communities that still uphold such values like; virginity before marriage, and even tagged as not a -marriage material‖ (Ravlik, 2019).Some of the female victims are even made to abandon their communities to go to new environments entirely to begin their…”