Why are companies on Brazil’s slavery ‘dirty list’ still getting contracts?
The 2018 Global Slavery Index estimates 369,000 people are living in slavery among Brazil’s population of 205-million
15 June 2020 - 15:50
Rio de Janeiro — A Brazilian construction company won a government contract despite being blacklisted on the country's slave labour “dirty list”, the Thomson Reuters Foundation can reveal, fuelling calls for laws to ensure businesses could not bypass the register.
Considered one of Brazil's most powerful anti-slavery tools, the dirty list features about 180 companies that were found by labour inspectors to have engaged in slave labour...
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