Bethany Jackson
Rights Lab Senior Research Fellow in Modern Slavery and Sustainable Ecosystems
Email: Bethany.Jackson1@nottingham.ac.uk
Bio: Dr Bethany is currently working with local partners in Bangladesh and India on migration and climate change. They have also previously worked with Antislavery International on the benefits of combining human rights and environmental legislation as well as the WWF to produce a report on the combined action that could be taken to end the nexus. They were also the Rights Lab's lead on COP26 engagement.
The Rights Lab have multiple projects outlining the work of modern slavery and climate change including the effects on migration and local communities, hazards, emissions and where modern slavery and climate change monitoring can be combined to establish common ground and integrated legislative approaches.
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Below is a selection of articles and resources from the Hub featuring Bethany's research.
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- Climate change induced migration has been linked to the risk of human-trafficking and modern slavery, a new study from the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham has found.
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- As reported by UN Women, women and girls face an abundance of amplified social and economic threats compounded by the impacts of climate change.
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- Modern slavery has increasingly been linked to the environment; in particular environmental degradation and climate change. Modern slavery can be a driver of environmental change as well an outcome – changes in the environment can push people into situations where they may become vulnerable to modern slavery and vice versa. To address climate change, the impacts of modern slavery must be accounted for.
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- Amanda is joined by Dr Bethany Jackson and Dr Jess Sparks from the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham. They dig deep into a discussion on modern slavery within the climate crisis and thus the modern slavery/climate change nexus.
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- Achieving the environmental SDGs must address modern slavery, through expanding collaborative action to centre the voices and rights of workers, communities, and survivors of modern slavery at all levels of legislation design and implementation.