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Abstract
Climate change will increasingly lead to widespread environmental degradation which will in turn spur large-scale vulnerability, displacement, and migration. This phenomenon is now well recognized in the literature, although causal pathways continue to be debated. However, scholars and practitioners have so far largely neglected to examine the related ways in which climate change will significantly impact the scale and scope of global trafficking in persons. This Comment responds to a lack of scholarship on the climate change-human trafficking nexus by exploring the predicted impacts of climate change on human trafficking. In light of these forecasted developments, this Comment argues that the United Nations Trafficking Protocol contains a textual basis through which states may recognize people who have been made vulnerable to trafficking by climate change. Finally, this Comment asserts that any apparent or actual consent by those who are trafficked is irrelevant within the framework of the Protocol
Recommended Citation
Smith, Mikaila V.
(2021)
"Applying the United Nations Trafficking Protocol in the Context of Climate Change,"
Chicago Journal of International Law:
Vol. 22:
No.
1, Article 19.
Available at:
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cjil/vol22/iss1/19