Spanish Ambassador Juan Sell said fighting human trafficking entails sending a message of hope to its victims.
Conservatively, 800,000 people are trafficked annually, with 80% of them being women and half of these being minors. The global sex trade itself is worth $32 billion annually. The issue of what can be done to end human trafficking, in which 25 million people are trapped, was the theme of an international meeting on 17 January in Abuja.
Argentine Ambassador Alejandro Herrero, who set the tone of the conversation, said human trafficking is one of the most horrible violations of human rights and it has to be combated. Equally, the American Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard, described the peddling of humans across spaces as a global scourge, a brutal and inhuman trade that violates human rights and robs people of their dignity.
Spanish Ambassador Juan Sell said fighting human trafficking entails sending a message of hope to its victims and one of determination to bring the perpetuators to justice. He advised people to beware of offers that seem irresistible, adding that human trafficking and sex enslavement are real. His country, he said, is on the receiving end of trafficking.
The French Embassy’s Deputy Head of Mission, Olivier Chatelais, regretted that, annually, hundreds of Nigerian women are trafficked directly to France. He added that a way out is to organise a worldwide solidarity alliance to fight international crime. France is a party to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution, and child pornography. In November 2021, it announced a budget of $15.87 million to fight trafficking.
Others on the platform of the meeting included Jarai Sabally of The Sisterhood is Global Institute, Taina Bien-Aime of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Jonathan Machler of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution, Esohe Aghatise of Iroko and Mickey Meji of the Survivor Empowerment and Support Programme.
She was assisted out of prostitution by an organisation called Sex Workers Education Advocacy Task Force, or SWEAT, and decided that one of the main things to do is to get the term “sex work” abolished and have the sex industry recognised as exploitative and oppressive.
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