Human Trafficking and Witchcraft: What are The Ties?
Superstitious beliefs can be used as an instrument of good or evil. But in the hands of human traffickers, you can probably guess what it’s being used for. I don’t know about you, but here at STOP THE TRAFFIK, staff found themselves rather disturbed by recent news story narrating the witchcraft murder of 15 year … Read more
Breaking the trafficking stereotype
Yesterday, a man who was found guilty of trafficking women out of the UK, was sentenced to 20 years in jail. This was the first prosecution of its kind in the UK. Before an attempt was made to traffick two girls, 14 and 16, out of the country, the girls were imprisoned in the man’s UK … Read more
Witchcraft Abuse: A method of coercion and submission
A few months ago I attended a talk around child trafficking from Africa to the UK (hosted by AFRUCA). I learnt how witchcraft abuse can extend further than increasing vulnerability to trafficking (as I talked about in my last post) and can be used as method of ensuring obedience. Often, victims of trafficking do not … Read more
Witchraft Abuse: How it increases vulnerability to human trafficking
Witchcraft is the exercise of alleged supernatural powers to control people or events, usually through sorcery and magic. Recently, in many African communities children are being branded as witches. This has shocking effects on the way they are treated and leads to severe abuse and neglect. It is unclear which children are more likely to … Read more
