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Sa’ad felt bad about leaving his family but his friends in Europe encouraged him to go. The trip through Sudan and Libya became a nightmare, confirming his worst forebodings. Watch his story!

Zakaria Hussein thought the journey to Europe would be easy but it turned out to be the nightmare of his life. Watch his story!

Zakaria Osman and his friends could not take the daily torture anymore and tried to break out of the trafficker’s prison. Watch his story!

“Then she took me to another place where my panties, some hair from my armpit and hair from my private parts were collected. She said it is to prevent me running away. If I ran away, they would use those items to invoke madness on me.” Janet from Nigeria was promised a job in South Africa. She ended up as prostitute in Europe, forced to work in the streets believing that she was under a magic spell preventing her from fleeing. Watch her story!

“We were out in the streets both day and night.Many girls have lost their lives while working as prostitutes in Italy.” Nora from Nigeria came to Europe believing she would get a job that would allow her to support her family back home. She ended up as a street prostitute. Watch her story!

Rita was living in the streets of Nigeria, surviving by begging money from passers-by. One day she was approached by a friendly woman who took her to her home. She said she had a supermarket in Europe and asked Rita if she would like to go there and work. Rita was delighted.

In this video eight Nigerian women who have fled sexual slavery in Italy recall how they were recruited back home in Nigeria. All of them were in a vulnerable situation, having left their home because of domestic violence or other reasons and desperately poor. Then they were promised a job abroad by somebody they met in the street.

In this video seven Nigerian women who have fled sexual slavery in Italy recall the horrors of the journey from Nigeria through Niger and Libya. They were abused, raped and sold off to men in brothels and bars.

In this video seven Nigerian women who have fled sexual slavery in Italy bear witness to the horrors they met when they arrived in Europe. They had been told they would get decent jobs as shop attendant, cleaner or maid, but the traffickers who had taken them there forced them into prostitution. If they refused they would be beaten or threatened with death. Before they left Nigeria they had given an oath not to run away from the job they would get in Europe.

In this video seven Nigerian women who have fled sexual slavery in Italy discuss the role of Nigerian brothel Madams in the human trafficking business. The Madams recruit women in the streets of Nigeria promising them a nice and decent job in Europe, they accompany them on the journey through the desert to Libya, put them on a boat to Italy and sell them to brothels or into street prostitution.

In this video six Nigerian women who have fled sexual slavery in Italy describe how they had to swear an oath not to run away from the job that awaited them in Europe and to pay back the money for the journey. They had been promised good and decent jobs in Europe so they did not mind swearing the oath.

In this video nine Nigerian women who have been trafficked to Europe and forced into prostitution describe how this horrible experience affected them mentally. They have fled from their tormentors but are still suffering from depression, bad memories and nightmares.