A looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. The 300 years the most powerful nations on us grew rich and strong go on the profits of the slave trade over 12000000 men women and children with full sibly transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south America Today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the 19th century it is alive it is thriving and it is bigger than ever. Throughout the 350 years of the Transatlantic Slave Trade more than a 3rd of the 12000000 slaves transported from africa was shipped to brazil. 123 years ago brazil became the last country in the americas to abolish slavery. 15 years ago brazil adopted an Innovative Program to eradicates modern slavery. Get today in one of the false this rising global economies up to a quarter of a 1000000 men and women are enslaved in brazil. It can not but out together but its not in that thing but it can. See that a wall will mean so long for. Their news real knowledge you know but do you. Want to know from graham why dont you nobody who you know. But i will set up i have a bump in the. City. Even the brazilian rain forest im the slavery piece mounts raid on a suspect slate. Similar to pull the mobile Home Inspection team comes to a remote copy wrong in the heart of one of the most sins of brazil. And one of the biggest strongholds of modern slavery. For most of the overflow been a juvenile so getting to the. Suburbs most of them didnt struggle so much about the. State of the province. Is the region most of the cases were found it is a very dangerous region there has been recently 5 homicides. Involve regarding people who are fighting for the land. Even though mobiles fraction units the have had some surprises in which. They had some some shooting yes the land owners and the units. Who are very well. They say just. In case was just it was 1995 brazil adopted in of its of laws to fight the problem of modern slavery. These define slavery in wide ranging terms. Of peace in the. Foreground there is a need. For slave labor its it can be. By degrading nations can be by force of label can be by bondage 0 so there is 3 ways and they can occur separately and its not enough that conditions that gives the whole condition of slave labor and all. The team discovers 15 men who they determine a being held in conditions of slavery each of these men will now be paid for their work and freed from the farm. In the past 15 years the mobile inspection teams have freed 14000 men and women from slavery. And when that stuff i. Think of the stuff ive since moved to lay this out. To. Day at the exposed tips of a massive iceberg. Nearly 2000 kilometers from brazils capital the state of pa is still plagued by slave. Here the fragile ecosystem of the amazon rain forest is rapidly being destroyed by illegal before state. And behind the deforestation one of the dirtiest and most degrading forms of slavery charcoal burner. Boys could exist anywhere give us the fullest. Choir to demodulate go out about disco. This is my tomato. Is cut off. You know april 2011 brazils slave busting squad raided a charcoal farm. In why uneasy. Ration street 11 state. Were traveling to talk to meet 2 of those men and to find out how they came to be in slave. No. Potential new format shamble. New book. No. Doubt there was a man who do think that it was good when youre talking about him in the budget be if. You think it that i bought up a month they would your. Book do you mean i dont mean them for your film would only be a little. Hype into a lopez was a cop annoys the chuckles. 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For a year plus art is one of brazils leading Anti Slavery Campaign is his work has won him powerful enemies. Into need generally dont be. Pushy be that to continue one. No stephen was. Interesting this time i didnt know the. Value school. Maintained was mine is there more to it. Bizarre than against their own communities. In the months since they were freed hype into lopez and jersey goes to still some source of her leopard. In or her one or think about the dont follow game over. Looking more has been a lot better for you off the top of the movement and theyre all. The best and its what they need and they give us a sub police i think he was up we had to give been she said his eye but then she can it. Set up by that theyre not given the. High end joes they have reason to be worried. And this is going to push this but adult audience gets done which they knew was shown to some dont spittle. It was in their same struggle showing masses its. Charcoal is big business in brazils booming economy its the vital ingredients in an industry which turns 2000000000. 00 a year. Every year brazil exports around 10000000. 00 tonnes of pig on a key ingredient in the worldwide production of steel and charcoal is the 1st stage in that chain joke out of oh theres a tiny thing in my finale that is close even a king only propositional hospital fuzzy feel goes a yes i feel was a im not there yet but ema the last 7 years ago investigators working for local n. G. O. S uncovered damning evidence of slavery in brazilian charcoal farms which was supplying the pig iron industry in response the government and industry established the National Pact to eradicate slave labor and its aim was to encourage companies to monitor their working conditions at all stages of production. Similar to a measly 15 on and Steel Companies set up the charcoal Citizens Institute to investigate and monitor industry supply chains but membership of the pact and the institute is voluntary and since 2004 many people and companies have simply ignored the. Muslim force for c. H. In for service the. Last. Few years in prison. Mr due to not be more adults limited. To form accused to do tours no go. I would do careful just thought i wasnt getting this in lopping what i meant to pick up more than 2 on that a little sheer paudeen e b o plodding. Illustration to produce. The results slavery continues to infect charcoal production and the entire supply chain that feeds. This is the Industrial Zone on the outskirts of modern where most of the pentagon factories are located and according to the evidence that weve been given and the testimonies weve heard one of these companies is allegedly still involved in buying illegally produced charcoal made by slave labor. And went as a good engine. Will do so and. Yes and that is a lie the needs as much americans. Produces 330000. 00 tons of pig on every year relying on charcoal to heat its furnace its. In the slave camps of the amazon its an open secret where some of that charcoal comes from 1st. And do you know to Work Companies or weigh the truck always go out ill quote one if theyre my Little Pocket book. In 2010 cause the products it gives were photographed with his then brazilian president lula to get the company has a lengthy record of using slaves tainted. In 2004 slave labor was discovered and called the pot of chocolate fall in 2005 if you slaves change from being women and children with fried from a tropical farm hes only customer was. The same year called the pot was fined 1000000. 00 brazilian ralph more than half a 1000000. 00 for purchasing charcoal from a Company Holding slaves. In 2009 and in direct supplier of charcoal to cause he was discovered using slave labor. Because he was expelled from the tropical systems can cheat because he did fail to pay the monday 3 subscriptions to fund the anti slavery. Was a but if i was a. Boy my years as a brzezinski dont be alone. When we went to cause it bought as head office in the states we were not well. But. Again i think. For the moment im an l. B. O. And it will be that was if i lived in my room and it was not going to know just where in a public area here i did. And when its not allowed. Were from Al Jazeera Television and were wondering if theres anyone we could interview about because it was operation was and i watched it that much it got full. Cause in directors refused to talk to us then i mean by media and the company has subsequently ignored repeated requests to comment on allegations of slavery in its supply chain. So where does cause he bought a slave team to be gone go into these trains that take the pink on away from bottle up to the cars from that are loaded on to ships taken to western industrialized countries like europe japan but its actually the United States. Most of course the pod is pagan is sold through just one u. S. Broca an Illinois Based Company called National Material trading we have obtained u. S. Customs documents 420092010 showing that an mc has regularly imported shipments of pig on from calls. Steel aluminum metals critic National Material trading has been a long time supplier of paid on to major American Steel producers they in turn supply some of the most Famous Brands in the world. National material trading refused to respond to questions about its purchase of slave trade to take on from call jihad or to disclose the steel producing middlemen to whom they sell it. With multiple locations specializing in steel distribution and processing National Material is one of the largest Steel ServiceCenter Groups in the u. S. But in recent years ford calls general much as im well one of the worlds biggest manufacturers of washing machines sugars and microwave ovens have a knowledge he steals which was made from an empty space. Today for. And General Motors say that an empty seat is not one of their direct scale one supplies but that they couldnt comment on in direct or middlemen supply. For told us the pig iron situation has been taken very seriously by the Senior Management team of ford since 2006 when it was originally brought to our attention we have asked all our suppliers that might use pig produced using charcoal from questionable sources to verify their supply chain. Validation continues to be challenging given the number of supply chain activities between ford and the charcoal caps in brazil. And General Motors said General Motors has a strict 0 tolerance policy against the use of child labor abusive treatment of employees or corrupt Business Practices in the supply of goods and services to General Motors the companys contracts require that a supplier represents that neither it nor any of its subcontractors will utilize child slave prisoner or any other form of forced or involuntary labor we learned in 2006 that a direct supplier of General Motors may have been using materials purchased from an empty at that time we investigated immediately and took appropriate steps will pull promised the statements but did not provide one. In washington what was it but it was a part of it is a scheme. A dull day at the my school and sawyer. Pretty soon was so was going to put his presence about limits or kill us the money will see its. Own calls on those. You know as they shouted to d g. That it was what it was so enormous that brocchini. At the settlement of the coolest bit so. Goes meow disappears sourced so only bears. Who made the phone stands wonder if you could talk to a family about to buy a car in the United States or japan or germany and they didnt realize that it was being produced in a Church Supply Chain that involved slave labor what would you say to a family. Planning. So who is really committed to stopping slave tainted charcoal contaminates in the global marketplace. The brazilian government prides itself on its commitment to end slave labor yes how effective is that commitment. The labor minister. Why do you think despite all these efforts that brazil has taken why is it so hard to eradicate this. Drug supply. While it is not the scruff looked at as you let me stop but i dont displease biologist dodged a bit as you he has been telling all corseted skulduggery just see us use volage for disability deaths of more job. You people we because of the fault. Of conduct but suspicious because you. Know a score because used not took to the garage and you flipped up on not to. Give up it was part of your governments really have to come up with this resource to end slavery they promised to do so by passing laws that say we will not have slavery in our countries until. The right mixture of politicians and the public and thought leaders and Business Leaders and immediately as you name it understand it and get get get the big picture we can raise those resources. Ironically the key to building that understanding may lie in one of the most ubiquitous if least noticed by consumers tools of modern business the buck the one thing that i learned as a bit of a shock to me was the link that i personally had to modern slavery every day when i walked into my favorite store when i picked a product off the shelf there was a story behind the barcode theres a story behind that product the question is how and now. David batstone founded the Antislavery Campaign group not to say a key part of its mission is to empower consumers with information so they can join the fight against slave labor in the Global Supply chain. So our team came up with 40 factors that go into the making of any product based on that we began to grade products and companies and using that material 1st we took that data and gave a grade a b. C. D. E. F. Like you would get when you were in school the result was an application for smartphones that enables consumers to check a product Slavery Index whenever wherever they go shopping the app is designed so you can scan a barcode on a store shelf the great comes up and you can say well. I wonder why they got an a or one away got an f. And you can click to see the score card you can see the 40 factors for transparency transparency in supply chains is essential for ensuring that slave labor is not being used to make products that end up in consumers homes but ultimately it is up to governments to enforce legislation and penalties if they dont then men like joes a and high will continue to be enslaved. In a quad or. Body low level of baltimore bill of fare but if i wish to vent what i think about dont bother me more probable from. Scrabble set up a chip mother but then. As i. Said on one side and. In the next episode of slavery a 21st century evil women sold into bridal slavery in india and the difficult investigation to track down my traffic has told. The health of humanity is its stake a Global Pandemic requires a global response. W. H. O. 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