An Assessment of the Broadcast Media in the Campaign Against Child Labour and Human Trafficking in Nigeria
CHAPTER ONE
Objectives of the Study
The aim of this study is to measure the magnitude, pattern and identify the causes of child labour and human trafficking in Nigeria, and also to know the impact of broadcasting media on this harmful behavior practices.
- To identify the causes of child labour and human trafficking
- To make recommendations on how to eliminate child labour and human trafficking in Nigeria
- To provide demographic information on victims and their
- To know the level of effectiveness that communication has brought about concerning child labour and human trafficking.
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
- Sourcesof Literature
The sources of literature used in this analysis are primary and secondary data. The secondary data are already prepared research work of scholars on related topics from journals, magazines, relevant books published and unpublished material e.t.c. Primary data are information got by the researcher from the respondents. Mass communication encyclopedia on language communication and various websites on child labour and human trafficking, Caritas University library, mass communication library, textbooks and so on.
Review of Concepts
The following concepts were review
- Human trafficking
- Child abuse
- Child labor
- Mass media
The Concept of Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is the trade in human, most commonly for the purpose of sexual, slavery, forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others, or for the extraction of organs or tissues including surrogacy and or removal, or for providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage.
Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally human trafficking is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim’s rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation. Human trafficking is the trade in people and does not necessarily involves the movement of the person from one place to another. Human trafficking represents an estimated 31.6 billion of international trade per annum in 2010. Human trafficking is thought to be one of the fastest growing activities of trans-national or criminal
organization. Human trafficking is condemned as a violation of rights by international conventions.
According to the national agency for the prohibition of human trafficking in 2003 defines trafficking “as including all acts and attempted acts involved in the recruitment, transportation within or across Nigeria borders, purchases, sale, transfer, receipt as harboring of a person involving the use of deception, concern or debt bondage for the purpose of placing or holding the person whether for or not involuntary servitude (domestic, sexual or reproductive) in forced or bonded labor or in slave like condition. In 1994, the general assembly of the United Nations Organization defined trafficking as illicit and clandestine movement of persons across national and international boarders largely from developing countries and some countries in transition with the goal forcing women and girl, children into sexual or economically oppressive and exploitative situation for the profit of recruiters, traffickers, crime syndicates as well as other illegal activities related to trafficking such as forced domestic labor. Article three (a) of the international labor organization (ILO) recognizes human trafficking as one of the worst firms of human labor, child trafficking as defined as all forms of slavery, such as sale and trafficking of children debt bondage and selfdom of children for the used of armed conflicts (UNICEF 2002).
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research Methodology
In this study, the survey research method was adopted as the scientific approach in the study. Survey research was found to be the most appropriate for this particular study survey research as a research technique used to obtain data, requires either intermeeting the respondents or providing them with self administered questionnaire.
Research Design
The design used for this study is survey research design. According to (Berger) 2000, pg 187). Survey is a research method, which involved the researcher using it to get information about certain groups of people who are representative of some larger group of people of interest to them.
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
This chapter is concerned with presentation and analysis of data collection from the use of questionnaire, using simple percentage and frequency tabular presentation for clarity and easy understanding.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter deals with the summary of the research recommendations and conclusion.
Summary
This project examines the impact of broadcast media in the campaign against child labour and human trafficking in nigeria. The researcher formulated three research questions that helped to raise three hypotheses with validity and reliability the researcher also reviewed five different concepts with supports from books and journals. The researcher during the courses of this project applied t he agenda setting theory propounded by Mccombs and Shaw in the year 1874. This theory describes the powerful influence of the media which is the ability to tell us what are important in the society, such issues as child labour and human trafficking, child abuse and so on the researcher uses chi-square to test the research hypothesis with empirical and statistical support.
Findings from the study shows that Ekiti Radio campaign plays a vital role in campaigning against child labour and human trafficking in Ido community of Ido-Osi lolcal Government area. Conclusion was drawn from the data obtained from the respondent.
Conclusion
from the out come of this study and research, the following can be deduced: that it is women and children that are mostly affected by child labour and human trafficking, and that Ekiti-state. Radio campaign helps in reducing the increasing rate of child labour and human trafficking in the state. Deduced from this study also reveals that child labour and human trafficking is as a result of ignorance, greed and mostly poverty. Those mostly affected are those who are not financially buoyant.
In a Nutshell, child labour and human trafficking according to this study remains the worst form of crime against human being living in Ido-Osi local government area, and that through the help of Ekiti state radio campaign against child labour and human trafficking this menace could be curbed.
Recommendations
Considering the importance of life, it would prudent to increase the campaign to curb the negative effects of trafficking advertising, such efforts should include a multifaceted approach with three goals:
- The total number and amount of money spent on trafficking campaign should increase soas to spread more word on the bad effect of child labour and human trafficking.
- Powerful educational programs and advertisements, paintings, and more realistic picturesof the impact of Ekiti radio media campaign against child labour and human trafficking should be
- Federal,state and local government authorities should significantly increase the campaign and program done pertaining to child labour and human trafficking.
- Trafficking campaign should be strictly regulated with all content and format gearedtowards all levels of audience, minorities groups and the
- More federal, state and local findings are allocated to increase efforts that are to put anend to child labour and human trafficking especially women and
- Programs on trafficking be put up in public venues, schools and event centre’s which arecommonly attended by youths as well as magazines and other media primarily viewed by
- Media literacy programs helping youth to better understand and result offers and promise,advertising, counter advertising campaigns illustrating the dangers of child labour and human trafficking.
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