Climate-induced migration and modern slavery
Channel: IIED
Date: 2021-09-26

This is a recording of a webinar that examined how climate-induced migration is creating vulnerability to modern slavery and explored possible solutions.

Climate change is devastating the planet, leading to intensifying global inequality as well as disputes over land, water and scarce resources. People are being driven to migrate within and across borders in search of resources and income, making them vulnerable to human trafficking and modern slavery, including forced labour.

A new report from Anti-Slavery International and the International Institute for Evironment and Development (IIED) is among the first to outline the critical link between climate-induced migration and modern slavery.

This groundbreaking report provides important new evidence to inform the UN climate summit (COP26) in November and high-level bodies such as the World Bank and United Nations on the need to address climate change as a factor of modern slavery.

This high level panel launch event featured discussion from experts on modern slavery and climate change as well as real life experiences of forced labour. The speakers were:

*(1:27) Jasmine O'Connor OBE, CEO Anti-Slavery International
*(3:21) Felipe González Morales, UN special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
*(12:17) Cecilia Silva Bernardo, climate negotiator for Angola and for the least developed countries, and co-chair of the Adaptation Committee of the UNFCCC
*(23:20) Clare Shakya, director of IIED's Climate Change research group

The panellists' session starts at 29:02 and the panellists were:

*Ritu Bharadwaj, senior researcher in IIED's Climate Change research group
*Somnath Hazra, consultant economist and visiting faculty, Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India
*Enock Pufaa, researcher and community engagement officer, Challenging Heights, Ghana
*Fran Witt, climate change and modern slavery advisor, Anti-Slavery International

More details: https://www.iied.org/climate-induced-migration-modern-slavery