Internal Child Trafficking in Nigeria: Transcending Legal Borders
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2004
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CODESRIA
Abstract
This chapter explores the linkage between internal trafficking of children and their use as
domestics in Lagos, Nigeria. The focus on child domestics is borne out of the triple tragedies they
face, first as young children moved from their villages to the cities; face unbearable modes of
transportation; stay within household that they are not used to; and suffer most abuses such as
working long hours, poorly remunerated, and particularly vulnerable to sexual abuses within the
households. Yet they remain silent and invisible while they suffer untold tragedies because
scholarly works on them are scanty. This chapter opens up the phenomenon and explores various
international and national legal documents aimed to protect them, evaluate challenges to policy
implementation, and prescribes suggestions