Climate change increases risk of human trafficking, UN warns

What is human trafficking?

O human trafficking ou human trafficking is characterized by “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of people, through the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or a position of vulnerability or of giving or receiving payments or benefits to obtain consent for a person to have control over another person for the purpose of exploitation.” The definition can be found in Protocol Relating to the Prevention, Suppression and Punishment of Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, complementary to United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, also known as the Palermo Convention. (UNODC)

What does the report say?

"Climate change increases vulnerability to human trafficking“, says the study by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), based on data from 141 countries in the period 2017-2020 and the analysis of 800 legal cases.

Over time, “entire regions will become uninhabitable”, a consequence that “disproportionately affects” the poorest communities, who live mainly from agriculture and fishing.

Without means of subsistence, they are easy prey for traffickers, Fabrizio Sarrica, main author of the text, explained to the press.

Who are those suffering most from the effects of the climate crisis?

Who are the people most exposed to floods, floods and landslides in Brazil? A study, published in July this year, exposes the harsh reality of socio-environmental injustice and environmental racism in Brazilian cities. Come the Curto News tells you more.

Only in 2021, the climate catastrophes caused the internal displacement of more than 23,7 million people. Many others had to go abroad.

The report cites devastating typhoons in the Philippines and Bangladesh. In both countries there was an increase in cases of human trafficking.

Ghana, where there are droughts and floods, and the Caribbean region, hit by hurricanes and rising sea levels, are also more exposed to electricity networks. human trafficking.

Another breeding ground for this type of crime is armed conflicts. Although Africa is by far the most affected continent, the UN agency points to the potentially “dangerous” situation in Ucrania.

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