Nigeria: Rights group urges UN to address sex trafficking
Equality Now, an international human rights organization has urged United States member states to make specific commitments to end sex trafficking. In a statement, the group said it was concerned that the issue of sex trafficking had been marginalised at the forum to Fight Human Trafficking now holding in Vienna, Austria.
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Nigeria Rights group urges UN to address sex trafficking
Monday, Feb 18, 2008
Equality Now, an international human rights organization has urged United States member states to make specific commitments to end sex trafficking. In a statement, the group said it was concerned that the issue of sex trafficking had been marginalised at the forum to Fight Human Trafficking now holding in Vienna, Austria.
Equality Now urged governments to make the most constructive use of the three-day forum that opened Wednesday under the aegis of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODUC).
"Reportedly costing over $4 million, (N472 million) the Vienna forum cannot be just be another world conference that will end in extensive rhetoric,"
the group said.
Anti-trafficking organisations from around the world have expressed support for a joint appeal by Equality Now.
"Any policy that aims to curtail sex trafficking of women must address the exploitation of prostitution on the one hand and poverty and sex discrimination on the other."
According to Equality Now, the marginalisation of the issue of sex trafficking at the forum left a vacuum in addressing its causes and laying out statgegies to end it.
"Governments must make clear commitments and exercise political will to end the scourge of sex trafficking," it said.