CLIMATE CHANGE

There is a growing, global movement for governments to pass mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence legislation requiring companies to enact preventative measures, conduct robust risk analyses, and face punishments for failing to prevent all human rights violations—including human trafficking and forced labor—in their supply chains.

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In Sierra Leone, climate change worsens human trafficking of the poor

Two women look on to the site where their homes used to be after the mudslide in Regent, Freetown, in …

Davos Dispatch: Facing a climate breakdown, leaders ‘act while we learn’

Devex’s Raj Kumar sat down with several leaders to discuss how the climate crisis intersects with their work: Peter Sands, …
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New Research Warns That Investors, Governments Are Not Adequately Addressing Uyghur Forced Labour Risks in Renewable Energy Sector

NEW YORK, NY, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2024 – In new investor guidance and a policy briefing launched today by co-authors Anti-Slavery International, the …

Human trafficking, sexual abuse and exploitation: the ‘loss and damage’ from climate change a fund will not compensate

Violence against women and children, including sexual abuse and exploitation, remains a taboo subject in the policy debates attended by …

Achieving SDGs and climate justice essential to prevention of trafficking in persons: UN expert

GENEVA (28 July 2023) – Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is essential to effective prevention of trafficking in persons, especially …

Report: Climate change, migration and human trafficking

Abstract The Sundarbans region of Bangladesh and India face several climatic risk factors, and for communities in the area they …

Climate Change and Human Trafficking Report

We live in an era of climate disasters. Over the last four decades, climate-related emergencies have increased by over 80%, …

Connecting the Dots: Disability, Human Trafficking, and Climate Change

Little is known about the intersection of climate, disability, and human trafficking. Due to a lack of research looking at …

Climate crisis increasing risk of trafficking for women and girls in Malawi

If Malawi continues on its current development trajectory, another 4 million people will be driven into extreme poverty due to …

The Climate Crisis: Exacerbating Vulnerabilities and the Looming Increase of Exploitation

The climate crisis, and the many ways it will reshape the world, necessitates that governments everywhere sharpen their focus not …

Women on the Front Lines of Change: Empowerment in the Face of Climate and Displacement

In the wake of extreme weather and other climate change disruptions, women are disproportionately at risk of violence and displacement. …

‘We ferried 500 men out’: how an organizer foiled one of America’s biggest human trafficking operations

‘Guest worker programs are a complete failure in the US. They hurt immigrant workers and employers.’ Photograph: Resilience Force In his …

The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters

A growing group of laborers is trailing hurricanes and wildfires the way farmworkers follow crops, contracting for big disaster-recovery firms, and facing …

Climate justice without modern slavery now!

The climate crisis is here, and people are feeling the consequences now. Climate induced migration and displacement are putting populations on …

Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration

Internal climate migrants are rapidly becoming the human face of climate change. According to the new World Bank report “Groundswell …

What is the Link between Natural Disasters and Human Trafficking and Slavery?

A popular supposition is that natural disasters generate immediate criminal activity by human traffickers. There is little evidence to support …

Climate Refugees are Increasingly Victims of Exploitation

Millions of climate-displaced people are victims of modern slavery. They end up in forced labor or debt bondage, have to …

The Great Climate Migration

This is the first part of a three-part cooperation between ProPublica and the New York Times. To see all relevant …

Evidence grows of forced labour and slavery in production of solar panels, wind turbines

A ‘certificate of origin’ scheme could counter concerns about renewables supply chains, says Clean Energy Council The Australian clean energy …

Climate inaction is undermining anti-slavery efforts

The report heard around the world The world has been united in horror following the “code red for humanity” declared …

How the Global Garment Industry Shapes Climate Change Vulnerability in Cambodia

In response to mounting public pressure, companies have moved rapidly to launch media campaigns highlighting their commitment to a green …

Climate change and modern slavery: the nexus that cannot be ignored

A ruined house a little way down the valley from a mudslide. The brown mark shows how high the torrent …

The Climate Change and Human Trafficking Nexus

Climate change increases the risk of natural disasters and places a strain on livelihoods; it exacerbates poverty and can potentially …

36.5 mln children displaced worldwide, highest since World War II: UNICEF

Internally displaced Somali women sit with their children as they wait for malnutrition screening at the Dollow hospital in Dollow, …

Droughts and cyclones fuel trafficking fears for climate migrants

Representative image. Credit: AFP Photo While climate change is worsening poverty and inequality in the country, policymakers have rarely considered …

Climate change & trafficking: ‘We have little understanding’

We know very little about the impact of climate change on human trafficking. Anecdotal evidence from countries across the world — according …

Vulnerable nations demand funding for climate losses, fearing UN ‘talk shop’

Developing countries are losing wealth as they are hit by extreme weather and rising seas, says V20, amid calls for …

Climate change, migration and vulnerability to trafficking

Women wait for relief distribution in the Lakhimpur district, Assam, India in September 2020. The Kakoi river in the background …

Making the Case for a U.S. Corporate Accountability Agenda

April 24 marked nine years since the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Just the day before, dangerous structural …

Ripe for change: Ending human suffering in supermarket Supply chains

Inequality is rampant across the global economy, and the agro-food sector is no exception. At the top, big supermarkets and …

Spotlight Report on Global Migration

Executive Summary Rampant labor exploitation in temporary migration schemes, climate crisis, prevalent vaccine apartheid, tragedies at borders and in detention …

Labour Exploitation in the Asia-Pacific Region: Beyond the Hype

The exploitation of workers is at an all-time high. However, traditional concepts of slavery combined with gendered expectations means that …

Can We Get Clean Energy Without Dirty Mines?

In 2021, global sales of electric vehicles more than doubled. This year, automakers are projected to make another huge gain, …

World Migration Report 2022

Foreword Human migration and mobility may well be age-old phenomena touching almost every society around the world. However, they have …

Leaving Home: Voices of children on the move

Children have become an important part of large-scale population movements both within and between countries and are likely to be …

Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (for policy makers)

This Summary for Policymakers (SPM) presents key findings of the Working Group II (WGII) contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report …

How Cheap, Disposable Fashion Fuels ‘Waste Colonialism’

A waste picker stands in the landfill at Dandora in Nairobi, Kenya. The Changing Markets Foundation Acrid smoke constantly billows …

The Road to Ruin? Electric vehicles and workers’ rights abuses at DR Congo’s industrial cobalt mines

Executive Summary Cobalt is everywhere. It is a silvery-blue mineral used in the rechargeable batteries that power our mobile phones, …

GROUNDSWELL Acting on Internal Climate Migration POLICY NOTE #4 Internal Climate Migration in the Middle East and North Africa

Climate change is emerging as a potent driver of mobility. The report Groundswell Part II: Acting on Internal Climate Migration …

GROUNDSWELL Acting on Internal Climate Migration POLICY NOTE #6 Internal Climate Migration in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Climate change is emerging as a potent driver of mobility. The report Groundswell Part II: Acting on Internal Climate Migration …

GROUNDSWELL Acting on Internal Climate Migration POLICY NOTE #5 Internal Climate Migration in East Asia and the Pacific

Climate change is emerging as a potent driver of mobility. The report Groundswell Part II: Acting on Internal Climate Migration …

Modern Slavery, Environmental Destruction and Climate Change: Fisheries, Field, Forests and Factories

Executive summary Modern slavery and climate change have emerged as concurrent crises in the contemporary world. While these phenomena have …

From a Vicious to Virtuous Circle: Addressing climate change, environmental destruction and contemporary slavery

Climate change affects everyone. Changing weather patterns have left millions of people at risk of losing their homes and livelihoods; environmental degradation …

Opinion: How modern slavery threatens climate efforts

Image: Haze following forest fires in Riau, Indonesia. Photo by: Aulia Erlangga / CIFOR / CC BY-NC-ND In response to the urgent …

Climate-induced migration and modern slavery

Executive summary Contemporary forms of slavery are often categorised as slavery, slavery-like practices, bonded labour, debt bondage and forced sexual …

Groundswell Part 2 : Acting on Internal Climate Migration

This sequel to the Groundswell report includes projections and analysis of internal climate migration for three new regions: East Asia …

Extreme weather events in India made women, children more vulnerable to modern slavery, flags report

Climate change-induced extreme weather events put women, children and minorities at risk of modern slavery and human trafficking. The phenomenon …

Climate crisis leaving ‘millions at risk of trafficking and slavery’

Millions of people forced to leave their homes because of severe drought and powerful cyclones are at risk of modern …

Twin threats: Climate migrants said to face greater risk of modern slavery

BARCELONA, Sept 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Salamatu, 22, from northern Ghana, has worked as a porter in Accra for …
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The Climate is Changing, and so is Human Trafficking

Originally published in: Earth Refuge The world is reckoning with the mounting strain of climate change. While the U.S. confronts …
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Climate Change and Human Trafficking After the Paris Agreement

At least 21 million people globally are victims of human trafficking, typically involving either sexual exploitation or forced labor. This …