Wk 3 Several areas where trafficking has continued to flourish - Essay Example

Insert Question Several regional areas where trafficking has continued to flourish are China, Thailand, Albania, Nigeria,Belarus, Moldova, Bulgaria, Ghana, Uganda, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Brazil, Haiti, Bangladesh and Ukraine. Question 2 Effectiveness of governmental anti-trafficking policies in these regional areas [China and Nigeria] has not been maximal. China’s authorities worked towards increasing awareness levels among cultures and subcultures that are at risk. The government in 2009 raised a nine-month anti-human-and-child-trafficking awareness.

China also strengthened the All-China Women’s Federation to work in partnership with the International Labor Organization [ILO] to sustain the anti-trafficking awareness and prevention campaigns. The success of this move by the Beijing Administration is exemplified by the fact that three million people were reached (Yik-yi Chu, 40-42). Nigeria has also concerted a lot of effort to carry out awareness and educational campaigns through an array of awareness programs, by liaising with NGOs such as Action-Aid International Nigeria, Access to Education for Children, Alliances for Africa and The African Project Foundation.

However, like its counterpart China, Nigeria has realized stunted success in this quest. This is partly because the awareness programs have failed to specifically target specific populations that are most vulnerable. To effectively fight human trafficking in China, it is important that the Beijing Administration empowers rural areas where poverty is more profound, yet poverty goes hand-in-hand with human trafficking. The government also needs to make legislation that clearly defines human trafficking and prescribes the legal penalty that an offender should serve.

Nigeria needs to also make legislation which clearly defines human trafficking and the legal penalty that should accompany it. It is also expedient that Nigeria: fights at eradicating its poverty levels; strengthens its institutions [especially Nigeria’s criminal justice system]; and reconsiders its anti-trafficking awareness and educational campaigns so as to reach proper target audience. Works CitedYik-yi Chu, Cindy. “Human Trafficking and Smuggling in China.” Journal of Contemporary China, 20.68 (2011):39-52. Print