FREEING GIRLS FROM TRAFFICKED TO ITALY FOR SEX: ‘YOU WILL NOT BE A SLAVE FOREVER’

Director(s): Clementine Malpas
Producer(s): Claudine Spera and Annie Kelly

2016 | 9 min | Italy
Languages: Online

Thousands of women and girls are being trafficked to Italy from Nigeria, into a life of forced prostitution. Abused and desperately vulnerable, they have a champion in Princess Okokon, who was herself trafficked from Nigeria in 1999. Okokon fled her captors, and, with her husband, Alberto, set up the NGO Piam Onlus. Together they have helped hundreds of women in Asti and Sicily – including those who have just stepped off the boat after being hidden among migrants – to escape their traffickers, giving them refuge and support.