Other Nigerian juju Juju and oath systems Benin City, Nigeria · 2018

Oba of Benin revokes juju trafficking oaths

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Traffickers used juju oaths and threatened supernatural consequences to control victims; the Oba of Benin's public revocation directly targeted that coercive mechanism.

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intergovernmental record institutional action International Organization for Migration, “‘Voodoo Curses’ Keep Victims of Trafficking Under Bondage” (2019).: IOM documents the trafficking-control role of oath rituals and the Oba of Benin’s 2018 revocation of oaths imposed on trafficking victims.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.iom.int/news/voodoo-curses-keep-victims-trafficking-under-bondage Corpus classification: intergovernmental-record; evidentiary role: institutional-action. SHA-256 d49f3b83b35133e09db2d86674c68bcdb30ce17e07ca43eed181680b84e998f4
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