| Title: | Nigerian Media, Youth, Children and Human Trafficking |
| Author(s): | Chidiebere Nwachukwu A., Ijeoma Ajaero D & Kingsley Izuogu C. |
| Abstract: | Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar business that breaches both international and local laws such as the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons; the Trafficking in Persons Prohibition Law Enforcement and Administration Act and related laws like the Child Rights Act. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked within national and across international borders for different reasons including rituals, forced labour and prostitution. Almost on a daily basis Nigerians are swamped with news stories of child trafficking rings in many parts of the country. This work, relying on secondary data x-rays human trafficking especially as it affects children and the youth and the role the media should play to curb it. It is recommended that the media as agenda-setters should galvanize the society and especially the government to enforce relevant anti-human trafficking laws; that we should allow extant laws to guide our understanding of what constitutes human trafficking as there appears to be confusion about its meaning and that the media as agents of socialization should educate the youth and children on the virtues of honesty and hard work against the desire for easy wealth which makes them fall prey to human traffickers. |
| Keywords: | Media, youth, children, human trafficking |
