Abstract
30Apr 2016 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A TOOL FOR MITIGATING BABY FACTORY HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN NIGERIA. Sidikat Shitu. Directorate of General Studies, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University Lapai, Niger State, Nigeria.
Highlights
This paper seeks to draw the attention of the academia, policy makers and human rights activists across the globe to look into the plight of teenage girls who are victims of the latest dangerous form of human trafficking, trade of infants popularly called “baby factory” in Nigeria
With the most recent as the Palermo protocol opened to all states on 12th -15th December, 2000 in Italy and 12th December, 2002 in New York, which is a supplementary protocol of the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime designed to Prevent, Suppress and Punish anyone found Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children and Nigeria successfully ratified it in 2001
Recommendations and Conclusion:One of the promising measures to curb or combat the baby factory menace is through entrepreneurship development
Summary
This paper seeks to draw the attention of the academia, policy makers and human rights activists across the globe to look into the plight of teenage girls who are victims of the latest dangerous form of human trafficking, trade of infants popularly called “baby factory” in Nigeria. Human trafficking is believed by traffickers to be a highly lucrative business, it is perceived to be the second most lucrative criminal business in the world today, after drug trafficking (UNHCR, 2000) and discovered to be the world‟s fastest growing criminal trade It got a globally approved definition in year 2000, a definition spelt out by the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime which states that: „Trafficking in human beings‟ shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. With the most recent as the Palermo protocol opened to all states on 12th -15th December, 2000 in Italy and 12th December, 2002 in New York, which is a supplementary protocol of the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime designed to Prevent, Suppress and Punish anyone found Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children and Nigeria successfully ratified it in 2001
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