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Nigeria

SDG indicator 8.7.1 Proportion of children engaged in economic activity
With household chores - age 5-17 (2017) Without household chores - age 5-17 (2017)
Total 28.7 % 31.5 %
Female 27.5 % 30.7 %
Male 29.9 % 32.3 %
SDG indicator 5.3.1 Proportion of women aged 20 - 24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
12.25%
Before age 15 (2021)
30.32%
Before age 18 (2021)
Latest ratifications - View all
C111
02 Oct 2002
Ratified
C187
08 Nov 2022
Ratified
C181
23 Mar 2023
Ratified
SDG indicator 16.2.2 Number of victims of human trafficking per 100,000 population
628
2007
0.83
2008
0.8
2009
0.65
2010
0.59
2011
0.44
2012
0.55
2013
0.57
2014
0.49
2015
0.54
2016
0.98
2017
0.59
2018
0.57
2019
0.52
2020
2021
SDG indicator 16.2.2 Number of victims of human trafficking for forced labour, servitude and slavery, per 100,000 population
0.42
2007
0.18
2008
2009
0.11
2010
0.1
2011
0.17
2012
0.19
2013
0.13
2014
0.28
2015
0.27
2016
0.31
2017
0.14
2018
0.17
2019
0.15
2020
2021
Source: ILO Normlex

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Priorities

  • Ensure national compliance with existing codes of conduct and standards of procedures. The National Policy on Child Labour and the National Action Plan on the Elimination of Child Labour must be reviewed and adapted, and national codes of conduct and standards of procedures must be reviewed or developed. Child labour data should be collected and regularly updated. Supply chains should be monitored regarding child labour, and products should be certified.
  • Strengthen child labour prevention, withdrawal, and rehabilitation mechanisms. Livelihood supports—an alternative to the income from child labour—should be provided for parents of victims of child labour. Educational support services and life skills and vocational training should be provided to children involved in or at risk of child labour. The capacity of the Child Labour Unit as well as labour inspectors should be strengthened.
  • Develop effective institutional arrangements for awareness-raising and mass mobilization against child labour. Workers and employers should be jointly sensitized about child labour in supply chains and supported through the development of targeted information materials. Steering committees should be established at the levels of local governments and communities, and referral centers for case management should be created.

 

Progress

Child labour

  • The Ministry of Labour developed and produced a Jingle on the evils and ills of Child Labour and the need for its elimination in the country during the reporting period of June 2019- May 2020.
  • 18 victims of trafficking were supported with vocational/ economic life skills and starter kits at the household level by the International Organization on Migration (IOM) during the reporting period of June 2019- May 2020.
  • The Ministry of Women Affairs’ Child Development Department and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) at the Federal and State levels and other stakeholders in 2019 provided medical care kits, economic empowerment and training on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) where over 457,353 vulnerable women and children became aware of their; dignity, health needs and strategies for discerning/avoiding sexual exploitation tendencies and violence.

Human trafficking

  • In 2019, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) supported the Federal and affected State Ministries of Women Affairs in partnership with the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and affected State Emergency Management Agencies (SEMA) to reach out to flood victims with over 5700 relief items for women girls and pregnant women, including dignity kits and sleeping mats in temporary locations and local wrappers for the women in at least 5 states.
  • In 2019, the Ministry of Labour strengthened the inspection system by recruiting additional staff and bringing the total number of Labour Officers to 1,415 and Factory Officers to 724. Thereby increasing the number of Labour Inspections and Child Labour specific inspections nationwide. Out of these inspections, a total of 3,937 Child Labour violations were detected with 1,263 withdrawn from Child Labour and 1,494 children and their families empowered.

 

International Instruments

Area Ilo Instrument Status Ratification date CEACR comments
Child Labour
C138
Ratification of C138 - Minimum Age Convention (1973)
In Force 02 Oct 2002
Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery
C182
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)
In Force 02 Oct 2002
Child Labour, Modern Slavery
C029
Forced Labour Convention (1930)
In Force 17 Oct 1960
Forced Labour, Modern Slavery
C105
Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (1957)
In Force 17 Oct 1960
Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery
C143
Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention (1975)
Not In Force 23 Mar 2023
Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery
C181
Private Employment Agencies Convention (1997)
Not In Force 23 Mar 2023
Freedom of Association
C087
Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (1948)
In Force 17 Oct 1960
Freedom of Association
C098
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949)
In Force 17 Oct 1960
Discrimination
C100
Equal Remuneration Convention (1951)
In Force 08 May 1974
Discrimination
C111
Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (1958)
In Force 02 Oct 2002
Occupational Safety and Health
C155
Occupational Safety and Health Convention (1981)
In Force 03 May 1994
Occupational Safety and Health
C187
Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention (2006)
Not In Force 08 Nov 2022

Milestones

2015

Nigeria enacts the amended Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act. As a result of new trends in trafficking in persons and the need to strengthen the institutional framework, the 2003 Act is repealed. The country adopts the National Policy on Migration. The policy implementation plan provides a legal framework for monitoring and regulating internal and international migration, as well as the collection and dissemination of migration data by relevant stakeholders.

2013

Nigeria adopts its first National Policy on Child Labour and National Plan of Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour,both products of a consultative process among stakeholders engaged in activities geared toward eliminating the worst forms of child labour in the country. The Hazardous Child Labour Listis developed and validated. 

2003

Nigeria adopts the Child Rights Act, which imposes specific duties and obligations on the government, parents, and organizations and bodies related to the well-being of children. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Personsis created by the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act of 2003.

2000

Nigeria signs, and later ratifies, the Palermo Protocol on Trafficking in Persons. The country commits to taking measures against transnational organized crime.

RESOURCES
Nigeria
Nigeria Annual Pathfinder Progress Report May 2021-April 2022