Cycle of exploitation turns Nigerian sex slaves in Italy into traffickers
More
than 12,000 Nigerian women and girls have reached Italy by sea over the
past two years - a six-fold increase over the previous two-year period -
with around four in five of them trafficked into sex work, according to
data from the IOM.
Human trafficking by Nigerian organized crime
gangs is one of the greatest challenges facing police forces across
Europe, according to the EU's law enforcement agency, Europol
