Rumi Kato Price, a Founding and Steering Committee Member of the HTCN, and Puthborey Phon, a doctoral student in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell recently published an article examining how climate change-induced drought in the Mekong Delta is increasing the risk of human trafficking. More specifically, the article discusses how the worsening environmental conditions are forcing people to migrate, making them vulnerable to trafficking networks.
