Female Trafficking and the Challenges of Education for Sustainable Development
- July 11, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Education, IJRSI
International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VII, Issue VI, June 2020 | ISSN 2321–2705
Female Trafficking and the Challenges of Education for Sustainable Development
HUSSAINI Manir1, SARKINFADA Halima (Ph.D)2
1College of Agriculture Zuru, Kebbi State, Nigeria
2Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education and Extension Services, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Nigeria
Abstract: – Trafficking in persons is a euphemism for slave trade. The trafficking for the purpose of domestic service, prostitution, and other forms of exploitation is a wide spread phenomenon in Nigeria. This paper highlights the estrangement of female trafficking and the challenges facing the Nigerian child, every female must be protected against all forms of exploitation, indecent or degrading treatment including child labour, abuse or torture, sexual exploitation, sale, abduction and drug abuse. The need to educate the leaders of tomorrow relating the implication of child abuse and how education is a channel for ethical rebirth leading to behavioral change for sustainable development.
I. INTRODUCTION
Education is of paramount importance for the progress of any society. It is the major force behind the social, and cultural life of a community. Education is the manifestation of divine perfection already existing in man and by education the growing soul draws out that which is in itself and brings it to perfection. Every country develops its system of education to express and promote its unique socio-cultural identity and also to meet the challenges of the time, such challenges include child trafficking, child labor and human degradation. Child trafficking is one of the fastest growing organized crimes with an estimated 1.2m survivors per year of which 32% are African. (Umar, 2007). Hundreds of thousands of Nigerians have migrated to Europe, and many of them have relied on human smugglers to do so, and many have also been victims of trafficking.
Though the obnoxious practice was abolished by the league of Nations in 1926 through the efforts of the abolitionist movement that swept across Europe at that time, the practice has reared its ugly head in our modern society in another dimension. This time, “Slaves” or victims of trafficking are captured not by the usual bruited slave raiders but equally dangerous using means of deceit, coercion, threat and fraud. The volume of continental, regional and internal trafficking in persons is equally alarming. An average of 10 children pass through Nigeria’s border of Seme in Lagos State, Sharki in Oyo State, through the creeks of Calabar, Orone. t.c. every day as domestic servants or labourers on the farms in Gabon equatorial Guinea and Morocco(Shaibu, 2007).
