World Trafficking Day: HDI tasks govt on laws to prohibit technology promoting human trafficking | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

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Human Development Initiatives (HDI) has said to successfully combating human trafficking in Nigeria will depend on how law enforcement agencies such as National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NATIP), the Police, the criminal justice system and others can leverage technology in their interventions, the reason it called on the government to step in as a regulator of the tech industry to make laws that prohibit the misuse of technology to promote human trafficking.

The Executive Director of HDI, Mrs Olufunso Owasanoye said this in a statement on Saturday to mark this year’s World Day Against Trafficking In Persons celebrated every July 30

She said that technology has been exploited among other things to communicate with a ring of other perpetrators and hide criminal proceeds with greater speed, effectiveness, and anonymity. “Traffickers have continued to hold their victims in perpetual bondage, subjecting them to mental abuse, torture, degradation and untold physical, emotional and psychological hardship through the use of technology, such include video recording and keeping picture of victims’ nudes.”

” We, therefore, wish to call on tech-based organizations, service providers and telecommunications companies to ensure to put measures and restrictions in place to prevent the misuse of technological platforms as tools for trafficking.

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