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Lost Lands Series Introduction

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Climate change forces 20 million people to flee each year, says Oxfam | DW | 02.12.2019

Climate-related catastrophes like floods and forest fires are driving millions of people from their homes every year, said anti-poverty NGO Oxfam. While no one is immune, people in poor countries are most at risk.

Over the past decade, climate-fuelled disasters drove over 20 million people a year from their homes, concluded a report released by Oxfam on Monday. The Oxfam study, titled "Forced from Home," was released as two weeks of UN climate negotiations kick-start in Madrid.  

It examined the numbers of people displaced inside their home countries by climate-fuelled disasters between 2008 and 2018, based on government and international agency data, as well as media reports.

"Today people are seven times more likely to be internally displaced by cyclones, floods and wildfires as they are by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and three times more likely than by conflict," the report said.  

While no one is immune, people in poor countries are most at risk, the NGO said. "People in low and lower-middle income countries such as India, Nigeria and Bolivia are over four times more likely to be displaced by extreme weather disasters than people in rich countries such as the United States."

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Basic Income March in Detroit

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Know How Climate Change Impacts Human Displacement

The reason for Climate Change Impacts Human Displacement is a lack of governance, lack of preparations and funds for disaster risk reduction.

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Discussing UBI and Corporate Automation

Discussing UBI and Corporate Automation @MarWillaimson and @AndrewYang we need an #AutomationTax

Discussing Universal Basic Income and the US Economy – February 2019

As Yang says – “this is no longer speculative” – the facts are speaking that automation is destroying the livelihood of people in this country. I believe there needs to be an automation tax on corporate profits derived from displacement of human workers. That…

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Deeply Talks: Refugee Children and Resilience

The scale of human displacement across the world means more children than ever are growing up without stable homes. In our latest Deeply Talks, we discuss lessons from child-development experts on how to build their resilience.

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The 21st Century has ushered in a time of unprecedented global wealth and extraordinary opportunities; but Africa is mired in human trafficking, a crime against humanity, where thousands of men, women and children fall victims to. While many proposals for remedial action have been formulated, real commitment to collaborative processes at all levels has always been limited. Hence, the need for collective learning about our responses and the responsibility to those whose suffering provided the basis for that learning will never be more urgent than it is now.

It requires novel partnership policies, strategies and tools, multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary institutional framework in tandem with stakeholder-driven multi-track advocacy, as a means of self-determination of epistemic communities. Strengthening synergies between international and national efforts would inform to prime the international partnership under a code of practice, mainstreaming responses and coordinated action. Africa already possesses most of the “tools” needed to change the course of human trafficking and displacement. Epistemic African communities have pioneered, developed and tested many adaptive strategies, with an impressive range of best practices, long before states came into the scene. Africans are not powerless against these ailments, but the magnitude of the disaster-triggering agents has become so cruel and trafficking agents so cunning, these systems are being outgunned. Advances in human thought towards justice and universalization of human rights guarantees are gathering momentum with the motive energy backed by demand for accountability of states. While this will set profound feat against human vulnerability, legalism shades mutual aid and sagacity of civic duty that rightly makes human beings unique.

         Key words: human displacement, human trafficking, international partnership, human rights, legalism,

See lecture here or https://www.academia.edu/16828894/Shaping_Epistemic_Alliances_-_Trafficking_in_Persons_and_Forced_Displacement_in_Africa