The 2023 trafficking in-person report by the US Department of State has stated that the Nigerian government failed to fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking.
The report published on the US Department of State website noted that the Nigerian government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared with the previous reporting period, including investigating more traffickers, including officials allegedly complicit in trafficking crimes, and increasing prosecutions and convictions; identifying more victims and referring all identified victims to care and finalizing and implementing the handover protocol to refer child soldiers, including some...
“This compared with initiating investigations into 852 cases during the previous reporting period. The government initiated prosecutions of 78 suspects, including 67 suspects for sex trafficking and 11 suspects for labor trafficking, and continued prosecuting 35 suspects for unspecified forms of trafficking from previous reporting periods.
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