Trafficking in Persons or Human Trafficking been identified as forms of modern day slavery. Trafficking in Persons has become an issue of global attention such that the United Nations under the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has the responsibility of implementing the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children. Objectives are Sensitise community members on the indicators of Trafficking,Create awareness in secondary schools on trafficki
Benue State is a source state for recruitment of victims. They are recruited most of the times from the rural areas because of the high rate of poverty, lack of skills acquisition programs the potential victims are lured with the attraction of going to find work in the cities and some of them are brought to the cities by relatives. In the cities where they find themselves most times the commercial and more developed cities like Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja, Kaduna, Kano the victims are given out.
1. Advocacy meetings 2. Organizing sensitisation workshops on indicators of TIP 3.Organising awareness raising discussion in Secondary Schools 4.Two day training program for teachers 5.Monitoring and Evaluation
The awareness component would create a system of accountability whereby the targeted beneficiaries would be more responsible in handling situations relating to TIP. The targeted beneficiaries will be able to identify indicators of TIP cases / victims and referral facilities that are available within their communities. The interactive foras would be organized to facilitate interactive discussions among the students and experts and their teachers.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
