More than 40 million people worldwide are living in slavery today; nearly three quarters are women and girls.
While many socio-economic, political, cultural and institutional risks shape vulnerability to modern slavery, it is becoming clear that climate change and climate-induced migration heighten those existing vulnerabilities and – without action – paint a bleak future for many.
This narrated presentation by Ritu Bharadwaj, a senior researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), looks at where climate change, distress migration and slavery meet.
It uses three specific examples from IIED’s research to dig deeper into the issue, which spans urban and rural locations.
It explores how the impact of climate change and environmental degradation is deepening inequality, driving migration and creating vulnerability to modern slavery, gender-based violence, human trafficking and forced labour within borders and cross borders.
And it shows that this issue needs be acknowledged and treated with urgency, and presents actions that are needed at all levels: by the international community, the development community, and all of us as individuals.
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