Les donateurs ont de plus en plus tendance à exiger de ceux qui reçoivent leurs financements qu’ils mènent des études et des évaluations afin d’estimer le nombre de victimes de la traite dans une région ou une industrie ciblée. Les…
L’île Ilha do Cardoso, dans l’État de Sao Paolo sur la côte sud-est du Brésil, abrite la communauté Enseada da Baleia. Les moyens de subsistance de ce peuple caiçara dépendent des caractéristiques particulières de leur lieu de vie et incluent…
Imaginez-vous devoir marcher pendant quatre heures chaque jour pour aller chercher de l’eau potable parce que la montée du niveau de la mer a rendu votre source d’eau souterraine saumâtre. Imaginez-vous être transportée à l’hôpital à plusieurs kilomètres de distance…
Depuis que nous avons publié un numéro sur le trafic d’êtres humains en 2006, l’augmentation des signalements de cas, tant de traite que de trafic, a suscité un regain d’intérêt vis-à-vis de l’impact croissant et des liens entre ces deux…
For the pastoral communities in the Dollo zone of Ethiopia’s Somali region, the 2015–17 drought was the worst in living memory. “We have never experienced a drought of this kind. … Around nine years ago, we suffered one, but it…
The impacts of climate change are most severely felt by those who live closest to their natural habitats. Indigenous Peoples in the Greater Mekong subregion of Southeast Asia are facing threats to their livelihoods and traditional ways of life, and…
Climate-related shocks and humanitarian crises are closely inter-linked. As climate change becomes more extreme and unpredictable, hundreds of thousands of people living in poverty in Somalia are already paying a heavy price. As well as facing a fragile political situation…
Forced migration due to environmental stressors must be differentiated from voluntary migration. Blurred and contradictory definitions abound, leading to inadequate or an absence of regulations regarding the provision of support and compensation. Culpability – and responsibility – can be established…
I hail from Turkana, a nomadic-pastoralist community that numbers approximately one million and occupies the most arid parts of northwestern Kenya. Our region, Turkana County, stretches to the Ethiopian, South Sudanese and Ugandan borders. We keep cattle, donkeys, camels, goats…
Mauritania currently hosts 60,511 refugees who fled Mali in 2012. These refugees hail from the north of Mali and are now living in Mbera camp and its surroundings, in south-eastern Mauritania.[1] They left their home areas because of growing insecurity;…