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21 Oct 2017

Brazil: Civil society, ILO and prosecutors claim that new gov. rules changed contemporary slavery concept & jeopardizes combat to slave labour

Civil society organizations such as Reporter Brasil, Comissão Pastoral da Terra (Pastoral Land Commision), InPACTO, Conectas, Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social (Ethos Institute Business and Social Responsibility), authorities as the International Labor Organization in Brazil, prosecutors of the Federal Public Ministry and the Labour Prosecutors offices, judges such as the Associação Nacional dos Magistrados da Justiça do Trabalho (Anamatra, National Association of Magistrates of Labour Justice), among others, argue that the decree published by the Ministry of Labour on 16 October changes the concept of contemporary slavery in the country and seriously jeopardizes the fight against slave labour. The representative of the ILO in Brazil stated that the country is no longer a reference in the fight against slave labour. The Frente Parlamentar Agropecuária (Parliamentary Agricultural and Livestock Alliance,FPA), also known as the ruralist group, denied having pressed the Ministry of Labour for the publication of the new ruling. Last week the Ministry of Labour dismissed the chief of the division for the eradication of slave labour, André Roston, who had told a Senate commission "that budget cuts meant it was impossible to carry out new inspections" last August. For more information about the context in which the ruling was published, see here in Portuguese.

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