Human Trafficking III – Effects & Consequences SS3 Civic Education Lesson Note

EFFECTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING

• PHYSICAL OR PSYCOLOGICAL ABUSE: People who are being trafficked are subjected to all forms of physical abuse such as rape, beating and torture. Children used as house help are often time beaten and the female ones are raped and sometimes starved of food and other basic needs of life. This affects the psychological growth of such children.
• ABUSE OF FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS: Human trafficking leads to abuse of fundamental human rights because they are often denied their right to free thought, conscience and decision.
• DELAY IN THEIR EDUCATION AND HUMAN CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT: Children who are trafficked and forced into child labour are usually denied their right to education to become useful to themselves in the future.
• VULNERABILITY TO SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES: Girls who engage in prostitution are prone to being infected with sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhoea and HIV/AIDS. These diseases are capable of cutting their lives short and can reduce their productive contribution to society and increase medical expenses.
• UNWANTED PREGNANCY: Victims of human trafficking are mostly faced with unprotected sex which could result in unwanted pregnancies. Some of these girls when they give birth will throw the child away or abandon the child with their parents without adequate care.
• STIGMATIZATION: People who are trafficked are usually stigmatised especially when they are deported back to the country from abroad.
• DEATH: Some children who are used as house helps are violently beaten to death while some die of ill health because they are not properly taken care of.

EVALUATION

• What are the effects of human trafficking?

GENERAL EVALUATION

1. What is human trafficking?
2. Explain the causes of human trafficking
3. State the effects of human trafficking.
4. What is the rule of law?
5. Who propounded the principle of the rule of law?

READING ASSIGNMENT

• Fundamentals of Civic Education for Senior Secondary Schools Book 3, Sola Akinyemi. Pg 111.

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT

1. A person who engages in trafficking business is called ______(a) controller(b) business expert (c) trafficker
2. The following except _______ are causes of human trafficking (a) poverty (b) greed (c) high self-esteem
3. Which of these is not a challenge faced in Nigeria in an attempt to stop human trafficking? (a) Increase in prostitution (b) Porosity of our national borders (c) Adequate law on prohibition of human trafficking
4. All are consequences of human trafficking except (a) death (b) unsecured future (c) improved health
5. Those who are mostly victims of human trafficking are_______and ______

THEORY

1. Outline five causes of human trafficking.
2. Explain five ways of preventing human trafficking in Nigeria.