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Two young men walk in the flooded Shibaburi area of Pemba after heavy rains poured down in the Pemba region of Mozambique

Each morning, around 5 am, hundreds of boys and girls cross the border from Venezuela to head to the buses that will take them to school in Cucuta, Colombia.

Modern slavery is an increasingly important global issue. According to the International Labour Organization, over 40 million people are subjected to various forms of exploitation including forced labour, debt bondage, sexual exploitation and forced marriage. Modern slavery poses a particular risk to those moving to new and unfamiliar places, even inside their own country. Experts are more convinced than ever that climate change is rapidly becoming the biggest driver of forced migration. This in turn is leading to greater numbers of people becoming vulnerable to contemporary forms of slavery.

Syrian refugee children are pictured in an informal settlement near Terbol in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon

Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the UN Security Council during a meeting on conflict prevention and mediation. (12 June 2019)

Protesters gather in front of the headquarters of the Sudanese army in the capital, Khartoum.

A traditional Dogon village in central Mali.

4 June 2019: A child playing on the roof of El Carmen school in Barrio Union, Petare, in the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela. It is too dangerous to play outside and children head straight home as soon as they leave school. Even a basketball hoop right outside the school was removed to discourage children from hanging out outdoors.

Protesters take to streets in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.

Only 6 per cent of children in Africa live in areas where air pollution is reliably measured at ground-level, leaving half a billion children across the continent living in areas with no reliable means of measuring air quality, according to a new UNICEF report released on World Environment Day.