A/HRC/41/46/Add.1 cooperation with its partners, may want to consider assessing how to carry out the mandate given by the Act in a way that does not have negative repercussions for the specialized services for trafficked persons. 52. While visiting shelters run by both the Government and civil society organizations, the Special Rapporteur also noted with grave concern that significant protection gaps existed with regard to the protection of and assistance to men above the age of 18, many of whom had recently been rescued from appalling exploitative conditions in Libya. According to disaggregated data compiled by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, since 2004, 9,344 females and 3,842 males have been counselled and rehabilitated. However, visiting the shelters it was clear that the male data referred almost exclusively to male children, despite the data not being disaggregated by age. Civil society organizations also expressed their concerns regarding the inability to provide for adult male victims of trafficking, especially returnees from Libya, who often refused to be sheltered, owing to the additional stigma associated with their victim status and related stereotypes around masculinity. It has also been reported that male returnees often need specialized medical rehabilitation, as about 60 per cent of them come back from Libya on heavy drug addiction and civil society organizations are not equipped to deal with the magnitude of such a phenomenon. The Ministry of Health needs to step up to ensure that appropriate medical services, including psychiatric and psychosocial support, are guaranteed for all survivors. Return and reintegration 53. Reintegration and rehabilitation of trafficked victims in Nigeria has proven to be particularly challenging. On 10 March 2016, IOM started the voluntary humanitarian returns programme to bring back migrants from Libya. From 13 April 2017, returns have been implemented in cooperation with the European Union under the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration, for an expected duration of three years. From its inception through to 28 August 2018, 9,695 migrants had been received and assisted through the programme and 440 of them had been identified by IOM, in collaboration with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, as victims of trafficking. Disaggregated data on returnees show that 59 per cent are male, 41 per cent female and 83 per cent are between 18 and 35 years old; data also show that 90 per cent of them were returned from Libya and 50 per cent of them were originally from Edo State. Considering the inhumane conditions in which migrants find themselves in Libya, which include sexual and labour exploitation, being sold in slave markets and other widespread and systematic human rights violations, as documented by several United Nations sources, the Special Rapporteur is concerned that the number of victims of trafficking among returnees might be much higher than those identified as such. 54. Through the EU-IOM Joint Initiative, IOM provides reception and post-arrival assistance to returned migrants in partnership with the Nigerian Immigration Service, the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, the National Emergency Management Agency, the Nigerian Port Health Services and the Edo State task force against human trafficking. The basic services provided to the returnees upon arrival include onward transportation, telephones for further communication and food (for all 9,695), temporary accommodation (for 6,503), medical support (for 1,018), protection (for 551) and referral (for 549). Additional services to migrants with special needs also included referrals to clinics, psychosocial first aid, provision of “dignity kits”, referral to shelters, counselling and family tracing and reunification. 55. According to information received, the Federal Government also brought back from Libya a considerable number of Nigerians. Although the Federal Government did not provide the Special Rapporteur with any statistics regarding the number of returnees under its reintegration plan, the United Nations estimates that it brought back 2,130 Nigerian migrants from Libya through Port Harcourt in January 2018. During her visit, the Special Rapporteur noted that returnees through the federal reintegration plan had not yet received any type of support. Many of them had been rejected by their families and had no place to go. Some were sheltered by civil society organizations, whose capacity to support them is 11