Forced LaborArchive 2008–2016

Forced Labor in Brazil (2007)

A forced labor case from 2007 in Brazil, Brazil.

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Documented on the original SlaveryMap (2008–2016). We don’t have a verifiable source on file yet. Know one?

What happened

The company has denied abusing workers. It was slapped with a $1.1 million fine and its directors charged with "submitting workers to conditions analogous to slavery." If found guilty, they could be sentenced to up to 15 years in jail.

Response and intervention

The Labor Ministry conducted a raid in the state of Para after 18 cane workers died from exhaustion in a year in the area. The raid found more than 1,000 cutters working 13-hour days in what the unit said were slave-like conditions.

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Pará, Brazil, 2020

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Brazilian labor inspectors rescued 39 enslaved workers from an illegal gold mine in the northern state of Pará, where they lived in open sheds without drinking water. The mine was run by an owner already on Brazil's "dirty list" of employers using slave labor, and it was the third raid on one of her operations.

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Forced Labor2010

Para, Brazil, 2010

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180 workers were found working on two ranches owned by ‘Lima Araujo Agropecuaria’, in the state of Para, Brazil. This included several adolescents. The premises had previously been raided five times in total between 1998 and 2002. The workers were forced to live in mud huts, with no water and little sanitation. It is reported that sick workers were also denied medical treatment.

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Forced Labor2010

Maranhao, Brasil, Brazil, 2010

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yes, Inocencio Oliveira of the opposition rightist Liberal Front Party was sentenced to pay $185,000 in fines for the 53 workers found in slavelike conditions during a raid on his farm last year (2002)." http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2003-11-08/news/0311080039_1_brazil-lawmaker-slavery

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