Bangladesh: Considered one of the world’s most climate vulnerable countries, with a reported estimate of over 1 million people living in modern slavery in 2023 - widowed women were targeted by traffickers and driven into prostitution and hard labour after cyclone Sidr in 2007.
Pakistan: Monsoons and superfloods destroy crops and arable land threatening farmers livelihoods and forcing them in a cycle of debt, risk of imprisonment where they were forced to do unpaid labor, and give away their land pushing them to displacement, risky employment, and preyed on by traffickers.
Philippines: In the immediate aftermath of Super Typhoon Rai in 2021, modern slavery risk increased and exacerbated vulnerabilities for indigenous population.
Horn of Africa: Drought affected areas saw increases in child marriages, economic and food insecurity, and displacement
Central America: Rising global temperatures, increases in the rates of crops disease, and extreme weather events are threatening livelihoods of those depending on agriculture forcing them to migrate from the region

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