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30 Jan 2017

Brazil: Govt. ignores Supreme Court, civil society and other authorities & continues not publishing the "dirty list" of slave labour

Civil society organizations call the government to publish the infamous “dirty list”,  a public register of employers caught using labour in a situation analogous to slavery.  Justice Carmen Lúcia, current president of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court, repealed in May 2016 the measure that suspended the release of the list. The government could have published the list ever since, but failed to do so. Thus it has failed to use an important tool to combat slave labour, transparency, and access to information for both society and companies.

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