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The Resurgence of Slavery in Pakistan: Implications of Climate Change
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The Resurgence of Slavery in Pakistan: Implications of Climate Change

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The devastating floods that hit Pakistan last summer continue to have a lasting impact on farming families in rural Sindh and the Kacchi Plains of Balochistan. Despite six months passing since the floods, many fields remain underwater, and the soil is too damaged for planting seeds. The small tenant farmers, who are already burdened with…

17 Rooms: Rejuvenating the Sustainable Development Goals through shared action | Brookings
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17 Rooms: Rejuvenating the Sustainable Development Goals through shared action | Brookings

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2022 GLOBAL FLAGSHIP SYNTHESIS REPORT Message from 17 Rooms co-chairs Co-chairs, Zia Khan (left) and John McArthur (right), at the September 2022 17 Rooms Community gathering in New York City on the eve of the U.N. General Assembly. Everyone agrees on the need for more and faster progress across all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)….

COP27 is over – what next?
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COP27 is over – what next?

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The Sharm El-Sheikh COP27 climate summit concluded last week after two weeks of tense discussions with world leaders. Well past the agreed deadline, talks eventually resulted in a historic agreement on loss and damage, which places the responsibility on wealthier states to provide financial assistance to poorer states facing the immediate impacts of the climate…

COP27: the impact of climate change on modern slavery must not be ignored
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COP27: the impact of climate change on modern slavery must not be ignored

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7 November 2022 Image credit: Thammachak Sotiya, via Shutterstock. This year we have seen the devastating impact on human lives by environmental events, amplified by climate change, such as the floods in Pakistan and devastating drought in the Horn of Africa, caused by five years of lack of rain. We know that in many cases…

States at COP27 must push climate action without modern slavery
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States at COP27 must push climate action without modern slavery

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States are gathering in Egypt on Sunday for the COP27 UN climate summit where the importance of pushing for human rights-based climate action that prioritizes building resilience to modern slavery is paramount.  Activists silenced Egypt has come under scrutiny for its alarming human rights record and increasingly stringent restrictions on human rights and environmental activists,…