Exploring Intersections of Trafficking in Persons Vulnerability and Environmental Degradation in Forestry and Adjacent Sectors

Who’s behind it? – Verité (2020)

How can it help? – This summary report describes the overall methodology used to conduct the research and proposes an analytic framework for other practitioners in the field to examine the relationships between deforestation and vulnerability to trafficking in persons. A thematic approach to understanding these intersections is presented, and each theme is elaborated by drawing on examples of findings from country case studies and linkages between environmental degradation and trafficking in persons vulnerability, as well as related phenomenon documented in the existing literature.