Inter-American Court Rules Against Slave Work in Brazil

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has welcomed a call from the International Labor ...

121 Years After Abolition Brazil Is Still a Slave-ocratic Country

At a ceremony held at the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL), Marcos Vinicios Vilaça ...

Brazil’s New List of Employers Using Slaves Is Out. There Are 175 Names

The Brazilian Public Defense has released a new listing of employers involved in slave ...

Agriculture is one of the areas in which slave labor is more common in Brazil

Brazil Again Finds and Releases Hundreds of Slave Laborers

From the beginning of the year till the end of March, 583 Brazilians who ...

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 ...

Lula Blames Slavery for Brazil’s ‘Social Abyss’

In his remarks today at the 1st National Conference to Promote Racial Equality, Brazilian ...

Over 2,500 Brazilians Were Freed from Slavery in 2004

In 2004, 2,582 people were freed from slave-like labor conditions on 252 rural properties ...

90 Slaves, Including Kids, Are Freed in Brazil

Slaves Two teams from the Special Mobile Inspection Group of the Ministry of Labor ...

Impunity Induces Slavery in Brazil

Interview with Brazilian Ricardo Rezende Figueira, who worked for 20 years in the state ...