Italy: BeFree Dossier on Women Victims of Trafficking

DOSSIER ON EXPERIENCE OF NIGERIAN WOMEN TRAFFICKED AND SEXUALLY EXPLOITED IN LIBYA BEFORE THEIR ARRIVE IN ITALY/EUROPE

REQUEST FOR HUMANITARIAN PROTECTION

TO ITALIAN AND EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS

By BE FREE SOCIAL COOPERATIVE EWL ITALIAN COORDINAMENT Member of the Italian coordination of the European Women’s Lobby (LEF Italia)

BeFree is responsible for the legal counselling and the running of the psycho-social assistance desk at Ponte Galeria (Rome) C.I.E. (Governmental Center for Identification and Expulsion), besides the awareness raising and training activities for social workers and police officers in a large territory, including the Province of Latina, within the project “Prendere il Volo 2” funded by the Department for Equal Opportunity and the Department for Social Affairs of the Province of Rome in the framework of Art.18 law enforcement.

The following dossier is an answer to the pressing and serious need to inform the funding Authorities on the new and unknown patterns which the trafficking for sexual exploitation machinery is assuming.

In particular, Be Free wishes to report the modalities through which many African women, mainly Nigerians, are illegally taken into the Country, after a long journey that foresees a forced stay (up to one year) in Libya, before their final destination voyage to Lampedusa (Sicily) by wreck boats.

Please find an English version of the dossier below.

Italy_women_trafficked_Libya_BeFree_Jan10.doc (56.5 kb - DOC)

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