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Title: SAHARA DESERT AND THE PALERMO PROTOCOL
Location:
Global
Categories: Human Rights
Culture
Media
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
July 22 07 to September 26 07
Description:
SAHARA DESERT AND THE PALERMO PROTOCOL is a documentary film initiative that captures the plight of governments in combating human trafficking from Sub-Saharan Africa to Western Europe. The timeframe for the documentary film project is four months. And would be implemented in Seme Border Nigeria/Benin Republic; Ivory Coast/Burkina Faso Border, Bel-Younech/Ceuta/Melilla Morocco; Tarifa/Algeciras Spain; Milan/Rome/Alghero Italy.
From a human rights perspective, trafficking is an inherently risky activity and we the filmmakers have decided to dedicate our efforts to contribute positively against the structure of the inhuman and embarrassing phenomenon. Trafficking has become a global business, reaping huge profits for traffickers and organized crime syndicates, generating human rights violations, and causing serious problems for governments. Today, trafficking has become a priority for those working in many other policy areas such as human rights, Ministry of Women Affairs, health, and social developments.
Information about trafficked victims and the conditions that they endure in transit and their treatment on arrival is inconsistent at best. It is currently estimated that some 5000 Nigerian women and children are smuggled across borders every year. Many of those who do reach their destination find themselves locked in cycles of violence, exploitation, and abuse. These violations tend to go unreported because the victims fears arrest, deportation or retribution by the traffickers.
Human trafficking involves controlling and exploiting people after transporting them to a new location, often beyond the borders of their homeland. It is a modern form of slavery; using threats, intimidation, and violence to break their victims' will and resistance.
Objectives:
1. To initiate strategies aims at sensitizing potential victims to the dangers of the underground migration and the inherent risks of their exploitation by the networks of human traffickers, and to notify them on opportunities provided by legal migration as an alternative.
2. Educate parents about the costs, humiliation and consequences their children faced every day in the course of trafficking and prostitution. Disseminate knowledge and raise awareness, and in the international context regarding trafficking of women from Nigeria into Italy and concretely address the root causes of vulnerability to trafficking.
3. Highlight sexual exploitation and the human rights violations committed against women, the colossal infection of HIV/AIDS, and the social repercussions of prostitution.
Needs:
The documentary film project is a Private/Public initiative; therefore we solicit your cooperation, endorsement and submission of relevant material which we deem most important and may positively affect millions of lives. Unfortunately the impacts are deeply disturbing, as traffickers split families, undermine confidence, and disrupt democratic structures in the rule of law. The civil societies in various countries have been battling with the authors of this phenomenon, yet there have not been many arrests, and no real consensus on how to proceed.
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