Fighting Forced Labour The Example of Brazil 1st Edition by Patricía Trindade Maranhão Costa, International Labour Organisation ISBN 9789221222934 9221222934

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ISBN 10:  9221222934

ISBN 13: 9789221222934

Author: Patricía Trindade Maranhão Costa,  International Labour Organisation

The study was written by the researcher Patrícia Trindade Maranhão Costa. Aurélie Hauchère, Project manager in the ILO Special Action Program against Forced Labor, revised the text and provided additional inputs.

They would like to thank Lais Abramo, the Director of the ILO office in Brasilia, Andrea Bolzon and Luis Machado (ILO Brasilia, Project to Combat Forced Labor) and Roger Plant for their much appreciated comments, as well as Brother Xavier Plassat (CPT), Leonardo Sakamoto (NGO Repórter Brasil), Maria Antonieta Vieira (of UFRJ’s Group for Research on Modern-day Slave Labor – GPTEC), Claudia Brito (ICC), Ana Yara Paulino (IOS), Edgar Brandão (MTE), Cristhian Teófilo da Silva and Aline Thomé Arruda (Univer-sity of Brasilia) for their contributions to this report.

Finally, thanks are extended to Steve Pope for his meticulous editing of the final text.

Table of contents: 

Part 1 Introduction

1.1 Background

1.2 Methodology and Structure.

Part 2 The Legal Framework

2.1 Recognizing the existence of the problem.

2.2 Slave labour in Brazil

2.3 Forced labour in international law.

2.4 Forced labour in domestic law

2.5 Other relevant legislation.

2.5.1 Violation of labour legislation

2.5.2 Damage to the environment.

2.5.3 Internal trafficking of workers

2.6 Penalties.

2.7 Jurisprudence.

2.8 Legal challenges: impunity and ignorance of rights

Part 3 Context and Structural Causes

3.1 Historical causes: slavery in colonial times.

3.2 Access to land: concentration of land ownership

3.3 Poverty and Forced Labour..

3.3.1 Illegal occupation of the North region.

3.3.2 Land disputes and modern-day slavery

Part 4 The Complex Nature of Rural Forced Labour

4.1 The characteristics of slave labour in Brazil.

4.1.1 Degrading working conditions

4.1.2 Mistreatment and violence in the workplace.

4.1.3 Inadequate remuneration and unfair compensation.

4.1.4 Restriction of freedom

4.2 Victim profile.

4.2.1 Poverty and others factors of vulnerability

4.2.2 The workers’ code of honour.

4.3 Recruitment of slave labour.

4.3.1 The structure of the estates and the ‘chain of command’

4.3.2 Slave routes in Brazil.

Part 5 Responses to the Issue

5.1 Social actors concerned.

5.2 Government actions.

5.2.1 Special Mobile Inspection Group

5.2.2 Payment of labour compensation and unemployment benefit to freed workers.

5.2.3 The ‘dirty list’

5.2.4 Project ‘Marco Zero’

5.3 Civil society and private sector actions

5.3.1 Study on the Slave Labour Production Chain

5.3.2 National Pact for the Eradication of Slave Labour

5.3.3 Monitoring of the National Pact for the Eradication of Slave Labour..

5.3.4 An increasing commitment from the business sector

5.4 Strategies for prevention of slave labour and reinsertion of freed workers.

5.4.1 National Campaign for the Prevention of Slave Labour..

5.4.2 Prevention of slave labour.

5.4.3 Rehabilitation of Freed Workers

5.5 The Second National Action Plan

Part 6 Challenges ahead

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