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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Last year, 942 people were rescued from slave-like conditions in Brazil. Updated on Tuesday, May 11, the data were collected by the Observatory for the Eradication of Slave Labor and Trafficking in Persons, developed by the Labor Prosecutor s Office and the International Labor Organization (ILO). Minas Gerais was the state with the highest number of rescues in 2020, with 351 cases, followed by the Federal District, Pará, Goiás and Bahia. Martin Hahn, director of ILO s Office in Brazil, alerts that the Covid-19 pandemic tends to worsen this scenario for immigrants, blacks . . . To read the full NEWS and much more, Subscribe to our Premium Membership Plan. Already Subscribed? Login Here ....
3 Min Read RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A maid enslaved for decades was among dozens of slavery victims rescued in coordinated raids across Brazil, government officials said on Thursday, hailing the operation as a “milestone” in anti-trafficking efforts. Most of the 140 workers freed in “Operation Rescue” were found in rural areas - many picking oranges in the central state of Goias, but several others were toiling in sweatshops in Sao Paulo and two worked as maids in Rio de Janeiro. “This operation is a milestone,” said Romulo Machado e Silva, undersecretary of Brazil’s Labor Inspector’s Office, describing the simultaneous swoops as the country’s biggest such joint anti-slavery operation. ....
Black Brazilian Woman Rescued After Spending 38 Years in Slave Labor for a University Professor’s Family Black Brazilian Woman Rescued After Spending 38 Years in Slave Labor for a University Professor’s Family Atlanta Back Star A Brazilian maid who reportedly spent nearly 40 years in servitude was finally rescued from her captors late last month. The woman, now 46, was just 8-years old when her destitute mother handed her over to Dalton Cesar Milagres Rigueira, a professor at Patos de Minas University, otherwise known as UNIPAM, authorities say. Rigueira’s mother raised the young child, and she’s spent the past 38 years working for the family without pay or any time off. She was relegated to a life of cleaning and even forced into marriage. ....