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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...
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Brazil: Bolsonaro supporter works to imprison Dorothy Stang’s successor
ANAPU, Pará state, Brazil – “Dorothy lives!” shouts a student with his fist clenched. Another ten people repeat the gesture and shout: “Always!” The cries of protest close a prayer held round the...
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Brazil: Bolsonaro supporter works to imprison Dorothy Stang’s successor
ANAPU, Pará state, Brazil – “Dorothy lives!” shouts a student with his fist clenched. Another ten people repeat the gesture and shout: “Always!” The cries of protest close a prayer held round the...
View ArticleBrazil discusses the financial sector’s role in the fight against slave...
The financial sector has played a key role in the fight against contemporary slave labour and trafficking in persons in Brazil since the Federal Government began to provide quality information about...
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Slave labor found at second Starbucks-certified Brazilian coffee farm
Eight months after slave labor was discovered at the Cedro II farm in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Starbucks and Nestlé-controlled brand Nespresso — both of whom had quality certified the farm...
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Judge upholds request by Daniel Dantas’s company to evict 212 families in Pará
Cândido Matias da Silva, 64, proudly shows everything he has planted over the last 11 years on a 30-hectare plot in Eldorado dos Carajás, in the Brazilian state of Pará. He walks through the vegetable...
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Supermarkets purchased meat from suppliers charged with using slave labor
The Pão de Açúcar Group suspended meat purchases from two companies (Photo by Zé Gabriel/Greenpeace) Three major supermarket chains bought products from meatpackers whose suppliers include ranchers...
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Even after a 25-million-real fine, JBS still sources livestock from...
A 24.7-million-real fine was not enough for JBS to stop buying cattle from companies that contribute to destroy the Amazon. Despite being punished by Operation Cold Meat for illegal practices in 2017,...
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JBS, Marfrig and Frigol buy cattle from deforesters in area highly affected...
Large Brazilian meatpacking companies operating in both the domestic and foreign markets buy cattle from ranchers fined in top deforestation areas, which are now at the epicenter of burnings in the...
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“Cocktail” of 27 pesticides found in water of 1 out of 4 Brazilian cities
A cocktail of a number of pesticides was found in the drinking water of 1 out of every 4 Brazilian cities between 2014 and 2017. In this period, supply companies in 1,396 municipalities detected the...
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Tax exemptions on pesticides in Brazil add up to US$ 2.2 billion per year
Imagine starting out the year having to pay your property taxes, your car taxes or any other taxes. Imagine getting to the supermarket and receiving a 40% discount on shampoo and 30% on tomato sauce....
View ArticleUK military beef supplier buys from sanctioned Brazilian farmers,...
UK armed forces in the Middle East are being served beef from a Brazilian company whose suppliers have illegally cleared more than 8,000 hectares (ha) of land – including swathes of the Amazon and...
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