As part of efforts to combat sex trafficking and prostitution, a Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), has urged the Nigerian government to protect “the most marginalised women”.
The group also sought a law to decriminalise and reintegrate the victims of prostitution and trafficking through psychosocial support. The coalition also urged the government to adopt the Sankara Equality Model, a legal framework that recognises the system of prostitution as a form of gender-based violence .
Speaking in Benin City, the Edo State capital, on Thursday, the group said the film entitled: “Oloture” highlights the scourge of sex trafficking in Nigeria”. The Executive Director of Coalition of the Abolition of Prostitution, Jonathan Machler said: “in countries that have adopted penalising sex buyers, we have seen a decrease in the male demand for sex”.
Also, the Executive Director of Associazione Iroko Onlus, Esohe Aghatise, said Nigerian government needed to put concrete actions in place to tackling human trafficking.
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