No Place to Call Home. Protecting Children's Rights when the Changing Climate Forces them to Flee.
2027
- Author
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- World region
- South Asia
- Origin of migration
- Assam, India
- Area of transit
- No data available
- Destination of migration
- India
- Who is affected
- Children
- Type of climatic event
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Slow-onset event
Melting Himalayan glaciers.
- Type of migration/mobility
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Forced displacement, Internal
- Destination industry or sector
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No data available
- Type of modern slavery
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Human trafficking
Girls are trafficked for forced marriage, domestic servitude, forced labour and forced commercial sexual exploitation.
- Link between climate change, migration and modern slavery
- Indirect
- Key vulnerability factors
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Children's vulnerability to human trafficking is exacerbated by forced displacement due to the effects of climate change and other structural issues.
- Summary
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This source looks specifically at the impacts of climate change on children, whose needs are generally overlooked by governments' responses and research on climate change and migration.
- Recommendations
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Recommendations are divided into three overarching groups: research, policy and action on the ground. They are directed at national and international actors. They address cross-cutting themes to ensure children's rights are protected and that solutions are safe, lasting and have children's wellbeing at heart.
