Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is one of the world most damaging human rights violation. Humans are sold, aborted, deceived, exploited and resold. Although slavery has being abolished since over 200 years, a new form of slavery has taken over our global world, generating billions of US dollars. Amongst die millions of people affected by this crime, Nigerian women who are trafficked for sexual exploitation to Europe tend to be a significant number. Debating this problem still is a big taboo in many nations an societies, even when almost no country is immune against this crime. The film “A Place of Peace” would greatly contribute in revealing just one part of exploitation – sexual exploitation in secret apartments. This film, through its fictional scene , though based on true life stories and experiences of victims, aims to alert a wide audience around the globe.

The phenomenon of Nigerian women and girls being trafficked to Europe started in the 1980s in Italy and was next reported in the Netherlands in the early 1990s. Women from Edo State who migrated mainly from Benin City in search for work, found both demand and a market for sexual services. They began to recruit other women, advancing money to pay for their travel and housing and thereby creating a system of debt bondage. Obtaining a higher degree of organization and linking with international trafficking networks, debt bondage evolved into human trafficking, which then spread across Europe. Today, Nigerian victims of human trafficking can be found in most European countries. Women of 17 to 30 years of age are predominantly trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation and still come from the southern part of Nigeria, mainly Edo State and the Delta state.

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