Cameroon

In Cameroon, traffickers often lure teenagers and children from economically disadvantaged families to cities with promises of employment or education. They subject them to labor or sex trafficking. Children are exploited in domestic servitude, restaurants, artisanal gold mining, fishing, and agriculture. Thousands of women from rural areas who live in poverty are also exploited in forced labor and sex trafficking in the Middle East, Europe, the US and other African countries. They are lured with the promise of well-paying jobs and end up subjected to domestic servitude or sex trafficking. The Anglophone crisis and the persistence of Boko Haram have increased economic vulnerabilities, internal displacement and the lack of formal justice, which subsequently increases human trafficking. Read more.

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Survivors’ Network

SN provides empowerment programs and vocational training to survivors of trafficking, displaced women who escaped the armed separatists and women in vulnerable communities.