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• Porous border aids human trafficking. IRIN News, 21 May 2008. Nigeria’s porous border with its northern neighbour Niger is being exploited by traffickers smuggling teenage girls to Europe where they will work as prostitutes, immigration officials told IRIN.
  
• Fall in rate of female genital mutilation/cutting. IRIN News, 15 February 2008. The prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Niger fell dramatically between 1998 and 2006, according to a recent government survey.
  
• Rape and beatings of women "normal" in Niger. IRIN News, 06 December 2007. The news that 70 percent of women in parts of Niger find it normal that their husbands, fathers and brothers regularly beat, rape and humiliate them came as no surprise to human rights experts in Niger.
  
• New slavery study welcomed by human rights experts. IRIN News, 31 May 2007. People are still enslaved in Niger, but an announcement that the government has agreed to sponsor an independent investigation into the issue has raised hopes for change among some human rights experts.
  

• International Perspectives and Nigerian Laws on Human Trafficking, Olaide Gbadamosi, Esq. Network for Justice and Democracy. 2006
• HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Law, Olaide Gbadamosi, Esq. The Network for Justice and Democracy, 2005