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BSN Urges that Biofuel Not Be Used in Brazil to Perpetuate Slave Work

The Brazil Strategy Network's coordinating committee adopted a resolution related to the recently signed ...

ILO Discusses in Brazil How to End Slave Work for 1.3 Million

The International Labor Organization (ILO) calculates that there are 12.3 million people in the ...

Mato Grosso State Becomes Brazil’s Main Focus of Slavery

Mato Grosso, the largest state in the Center-West region and one of Brazil’s major ...

18,000 Slave Workers Rescued in Brazil, But No One Went to Jail

Brother Xavier Plassat, coordinator of Brazil’s Land Pastoral Commission’s Campaign to Combat Slave Labor, ...

Brazil Has Already Freed 16,407 Slave Workers

Brazil’s Ministry of Labor’s Special Mobile Inspection Group freed 79 workers from slave labor ...

For Brazil’s Sugar Cane Workers the Day Starts at 4:30 AM and Debts Never End

More than 115 years after the signing of the Golden Law (1), slavery is ...

Slave Employer Fined US$ 1.2 Million in Brazil

Brazil’s 2nd Labor Court of the city of Marabá (Pará state), in the Amazonian ...

Brazil Starts Plan to Eradicate Slave Labor

The implantation of the Plan for the Eradication of Slave Labor, announced yesterday by ...

With 2 Million Kids Working Brazil Promises End to Child Labor

Since 1996 the Brazilian government has been able to rescue 930 thousand working children ...