Nigeria is the most comfortable country for human trafficking.

Nigeria is the most comfortable country for human trafficking. It all starts with the fact that a trader promised good life to their "product." Parents themselves persuaded to sell their children, and they willingly agree because the seller has promised good wages, educational opportunities and other benefits of civilization. However, the reality is different. Every year more than 500 thousand young girls from Nigeria illegally trafficked to brothels in Europe. The very passage to Europe like a nightmare - to the shores of Spain and Italy, illegal immigrants trafficked on flimsy boats. Those who managed to survive the road, faced with the fact that now they have to sell their bodies in the street. In recent years, the Government of Nigeria and the church opened several shelters for those who are too naive.

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1. Nuns talking with a girl who was able to go home at a rehabilitation center in Benin.





2. The girl rescued from slavery, looks out the window of his clothing store, which she was able to open due to the credit organizations fighting human trafficking in Nigeria.



3. The shaman voodoo ceremony holds "binding" of the girl and the merchant. The police are just standing around.



4. Voodoo shaman during the ceremony of oath. The process of human trafficking in Nigeria and voodoo rituals are intertwined - the girl who sells usually must say a special voodoo oath.



5. One of the nuns running the orphanage



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7. Girls are required to take an oath to his dealer.



8. Travel to the "Better World" begins with illegally crossing the Libyan border



9. The Italian Coast Guard fished a group of illegal immigrants near the island of Lampedusa



10. Sometimes, the girls have to wait a few days at the border of the possibility to leave Nigeria.



11. Graveyard of ships on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Normally immigrants crossing the sea in such huts as in the photo



12. The girl managed to save the Italian coastal services, sleeping in prison for illegal immigrants in Lampedusa



13. Police delivers a Woman who escaped from slavery in voodoo temple, where it was associated with his vow to destroy the seller



14. The girl returned to Nigeria, sitting in the lobby of the rehabilitation center.



15. Benin.



16. Young prostitutes at the Meridian Lodge



17. Girls are waiting for customers in the hotel lobby



18. Ceremony to break the vow of voodoo temple



19. Mother listens to the story of his daughter on slavery



20. The walls of the shelter for victims of traffickers



21. The girl, who were able to return home, chastises his cousin, who sold her into slavery



22. One of the tombs of many illegal immigrants who have died at sea on the island of Lampedusa, Italy



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