The 1999 Constitution as amended outlaws slavery and forced labour
The criminal code, applicable in southern Nigeria provides for sanctions against "who ever trades in prostitution, facilitates the transport of human beings within or outside Nigeria for commercial sexual exploitation, and makes profit from related activities"
The Penal codes, operative in Northern Nigeria provides for "imprisonment for the buying or disposing of slaves, and unlawful compulsory labour"
The child right Act's, 2003 has provisions which prohibit the buying, and selling of children and taking children out of nigeria.
Trafficking in persons violate many international human rights instruments such as:
Right to be treated as a human being
Right to personer dignity and integrity
Right to liberty and security of person
Right to freedom from discrimination
Right to freedom from inhuman treatment
Right to highest attainable level of physical and mental health
Right to Liberty of movement
Right to life
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