Protection and Participation
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Impact
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Members of the Nigeria Children Parliament take part in the Children’s Day rally |
- Continued capacity building and sensitisation of police, immigration and prison officers on the issue of child trafficking has yielded results. The National Agency for the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons in collaboration with development partners investigated over 141 cases of suspected traffickers brought 36 cases to the high courts and rescued over 1,500 victims between November 2004 and December 2006. This includes increased repatriations of trafficking victims from foreign countries.
- Implementation of the Nigeria/Benin joint work plan on combating trafficking in persons has scaled up the level of cross border investigations and prosecutions in both countries.
- A ‘Multilateral Co-operation Agreement on Combating Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children’ was signed by 15 member States from both ECOWAS and ECCAS during the regional conference held in Abuja in 2006.
- In 2007, the campaign against trafficking, produced by Radio Nigeria with UNICEF support, made a real impact by increasing public’s knowledge and willingness to act against this phenomenon.
- As of December 2006, over 18,000 youths, mostly between 15-24 years old, had been reached through the youth resources centres in Edo and Delta States alone. Over 3,500 registered young people use the resource centres on a regular basis every year.
- In 2007, over 2,000 children in conflict with the law, indigent children and women received improved legal representation, counseling and pro-bono services as a result of capacity building for legal practitioners.
- Massive awareness campaigns on birth registration across the country, and provision of motorcycles, birth registers and registration forms resulted in increased number of births registered in the country in 2007.
- In terms of child participation, today, most radio and TV stations in Nigeria have weekly children’s programmes presented by children.
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