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Conscious clothes shopping app for Android and iPhone launched in Brazil for...
On Wednesday (12/11), Repórter Brasil, a national reference in the defence of human rights, launched Moda Livre (Free Fashion), a free application for smartphones, available for Android and iOS...
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Clipping: Deutsche Welle presents independent media projects in Brazil
Click here or in the image above to watch the Global 3000, where Deutsche Welle presents independent media projects in Brazil.
View ArticleClipping: Brazil’s Slaves Are Being Freed, But Owners Go Largely Unpunished
by TIM PADGETT I bought Francisco Lima his first taste of freedom in decades. A cheeseburger. It was 2004, and Brazil was starting to confront one of its most distressing problems: slavery. I was in...
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Revealed: Asian slave labour producing prawns for supermarkets in US, UK
Thai ‘ghost ships’ that enslave and even kill workers are linked to global shrimp supply chain, Guardian investigation discovers Kate Hodal, Chris Kelly in Songkhla and Felicity Lawrence Slaves forced...
View ArticleCongress approves expropriation of property found with slaves
Brasilia – The Brazilian Senate approved the Constitutional Amendment Bill (PEC) 57A/1999 on Slave Labor late on 27th May. The proposed constitutional amendment provides for expropriation of real...
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Relations among Brazilian companies on “Eles Mandam” platform
Database consolidated during the second stage of project Eles Mandam (They Rule, in Portuguese), launched on Wednesday (18), provides transparency on a number of direct and indirect relations among...
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In 2015, watch out for Paraguay
It does no justice to all that Emiliano Zapata’s, Frida Kahlo’s and Juan Rulfo’s Mexico means, but “Mexicanization” has become synonymous with bad things. It is used to speak about the risk of a...
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Current regulations unable to ban products from slave labor, expert says
Miners in Ghana, fishers in Bangladesh and loggers in Brazil have two things in common: many are vulnerable workers often submitted to slave-like conditions while engaging in an activity destructive to...
View ArticleWood and Slavery – slave labor that threatens the Amazon rainforest
Read the full investigative news report at: http://reporterbrasil.org.br/loggers A film by: Ana Aranha Photography: Lunaé Parracho Editing: Alex Duvidovich Editing assistant: João Cesar Diaz Research:...
View ArticleInvestigation reveals slave labor conditions in Brazil’s timber industry
The dictionary definition of a settler, “one who emigrates to populate and/or exploit a foreign land,” does not just apply to the Brazilian colonial period. Even in the 21st century, the term settler...
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Slave labor in the Amazon: risking lives to cut down the rainforest
Logging activity inside indigenous land Cachoeira Seca, in the state of Pará (Photo: Lunaé Parracho/Repórter Brasil) A rookie in the trade of cutting down trees, João* asked himself how life led him...
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Suppliers of Lowe’s in the US and Walmart in Brazil linked to slave labor in...
Products derived from timber extracted by workers living in conditions analogous to slave labor in Brazil are connected to a complex business network linked to the U.S. market – possibly reaching the...
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Escalation of rural violence foretells climate of war in 2017
Even before the end of the first half of 2017, three major tragedies in rural Brazil had left their mark in the country’s history. In the state of Mato Grosso in April, nine agricultural workers were...
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Massacre in Pará: testimonies suggest that police were working in association...
A new testimony supports suspicions that civil police officers were working in association with private security guards on the Santa Lúcia farm, where the massacre of ten landless agricultural...
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100 years of servitude
Many years later, facing his younger brother, the sexagenarian Augusto Miranda Brasão was to remember that since the age of 12 he worked with his father cutting piassava to pay off debts to his bosses....
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Acre against Chico Mendes
In Rio Branco, a wall painted with the face of Chico Mendes. He was killed in 1988 for standing up to a rancher in defense of the interests of local rubber tappers. Photo by Fernando Martinho Dressed...
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The crooked paths of Suape
Maria Madalena, a resident of the Ilha Mercês quilombo (maroon) community “My parents and grandparents died here. How can Suape call us trespassers?” asks Maria Madalena da Silva, aged 65, a resident...
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Included in the dirty list, Cutrale still has farms certified with “good...
Even with the company’s name included in the “dirty list” of slave labor, a group of farms belonging to Succítrico Cutrale received one of the most important socio-environmental certifications in the...
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Brazilian meat industry encroaches on Paraguayan Chaco
It is in the arid forests of the Chaco, a rich environment naturally adapted to the intense heat and the scarcity of water, that the Paraguayan government plans to consolidate the country as the...
View ArticleInvestigation reveals slave labor conditions in Brazil’s timber industry
The dictionary definition of a settler, “one who emigrates to populate and/or exploit a foreign land,” does not just apply to the Brazilian colonial period. Even in the 21st century, the term settler...
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