Sarah Johnson: 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 slavery and human trafficking over the coming decades, a new report warns. The climate crisis and the increasing frequency of extreme weather disasters including floods, droughts and megafires are having a devastating effect on the livelihoods of people already living in poverty and making them more vulnerable to slavery, according to the report, published today.
Researchers from
the International Institute for
Environment and Development (IIED) and Anti-Slavery International found
that drought in northern Ghana had led young men and women to migrate to major
cities. Many women begin working as porters and are at risk of trafficking,
sexual exploitation and debt bondage – a form of modern slavery in which
workers are trapped in work and exploited to pay off a huge debt….
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