• The World Programme of Action for Youths adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1995 and the National Youth Development Policy be fully implemented. (Government) • Government and NGOs provide adequate out-of-school training and recreational facilities for children and young persons. (Government and NGOs) • Government make a greater effort to substantially increase funding to human rights agencies such as the National Human Rights Commission and NAPTIP that prevent trafficking in persons. (Government) • Specialised family law units be created within the judiciary to handle cases of juveniles and children who run into difficulties with the law, with accompanying appropriate forms of correction and punishment. (Federal and state governments, and the judiciary) • The states that have not introduced a Children’s Parliament do so. (State legislatures) OBJECTIVE 9: 132 PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF VULNERABLE GROUPS, INCLUDING THE DISABLED, THE POOR, IDPS AND REFUGEES i. Summary of the CSAR 390. The problem of vulnerable groups in Nigeria is no longer as negligible as it was many years ago. Previously, strong social networks, particularly the extended family and traditional welfare structures built on kinship, absorbed much of the problem of vulnerability in the country. However, with increasing neoliberal, capitalist policies, safety nets provided by these traditional structures have given way, while new ones have not replaced them. Consequently, the plight of vulnerable groups, including the disabled and the poor, has come into bolder relief. 391. The number of IDPs has risen dramatically since the return to civil democratic rule in 1999. As noted under objective 1 above, the phenomenon of IDPs is caused by internal violence/crises, natural factors and border infiltration. Displacement also results from environmental pollution, which the government has been addressing seriously since the democratic dispensation came to power in 1999. 392. Land disputes have created displacements. These vary from one place to another. Plateau State in the Middle-Belt of Nigeria has experienced many ethnoreligious conflicts. This has led to thousands of people being killed and displaced. Conflict between settlers and indigenes in Kano has led to the displacement of more than 300,000 nonindigenes, especially from southern Nigeria. 393. In Numan, Adamawa State, Muslims’ opposition to the location of a new church resulted in violence, which led to the destruction of the entire