The International Organization for Migration says the number of Nigerian women arriving by boat from Libya to Italy almost doubled in 2016, with the huge majority of them being victims of sex trafficking and exploitation. The IOM indeed maintains that approximately 80 percent of the roughly 11,000 Nigerian women who arrived in Sicily in 2016 were trafficked and are destined to forced prostitution in Italy or elsewhere in Europe. The numbers have been growing at a fast rate in recent years, highlighting the need of different responses to the humanitarian emergency.