Fighting forced labour : the example of Brazil

xvii, 122 p.

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Cover; Half title page; Title page; Copyright information; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgements; 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 Causes3.1 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 dispute 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 other factors of vulnerability

4.2.2 The workers' code of honour4.3 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 Labour5.3.4 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; Bibliography; Annexes; Decree 540/2004, 'Dirty List'; National Pact to Eradicate Slave Labour in Brazil; List of figures

Figure 1 Productive activities of estates found employing workers kept in conditions analogous to slavery in BrazilFigure 2 Deforestation arch in the Amazon Region; Figure 3 Activities carried out by workers subjected to slave labour (by estate); Figure 4 Chain of command on the estate; Figure 5 Slave routes in Brazil; Figure 6 Example of a production chain - soya; Figure 7 One of the slogans used during the National Campaign; Figure 8 Logo of the Brazilian campaign; Figure 9 First stage of the National Campaign to Combat Slave Labour

Figure 10 Second stage of the National Campaign to Combat Slave Labour

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