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August 1, 2019
National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in PersonsNAPTIP with support from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC says itis partnering state and non-state actors to establish Task Forces on humantrafficking.
Sylvester Atere, Communications Officer, UNODC Nigeria,disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
According to him, this is part of efforts to decreasevulnerabilities to trafficking of women, children and the youth.
Atere said the major output of the project was to support animproved partnership coordination in the referral process for the support andprotection of trafficked victims.
He said that the first State Task Force was established byEdo Government followed by Ondo, Delta and Ekiti, adding that other States wereexpected to follow soon.
Atere quoted UNODC Executive Director, Yury Fedotov, in hisstatement to commemorate world Day against Trafficking in Persons, as saying:“Tackling human trafficking brings us closer to achieving the SustainableDevelopment Goals.