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Brazilian Church celebrates week against modern slavery with focus on Covid-19 The Pastoral Commission for the Land (CPT), the social arm of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference (CNBB) dealing with the rights of farm workers, is holding its annual national Communication Week against Slavery-related Work. By Lisa Zengarini During the Week against Slavery-related Work, which runs until 14 May, information resources are made available to make workers aware of their rights against modern forms of slavery. The initiative was first launched in Bahia in 2016, and since 2019 has been held at a national level. Forced labour and slavery-like exploitation Its key date is Abolition Day, on 13 May, which commemorates the end of slavery in Brazil (1888). ....
Madalena Gordiano was just eight years old when she knocked on Maria das Graças Milagres Rigueiraâs door to beg for food in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil. She was invited in and Maria, a white teacher, promised to adopt her. Gordianoâs mother, who had eight other children, one of whom was Madalenaâs twin, agreed. But Gordiano was never adopted or allowed to go to school. For the next 38 years, she cooked, washed, scrubbed bathrooms, dusted and tidied for Maria das Graças Milagres Rigueiraâs family. A victim of racial exploitation, she became a 21st-century slave for a wealthy family in an apartment building in Patos de Minas, a town of 100,000 inhabitants. She was never paid nor allowed time off, according to prosecutors investigating the case. When Gordiano was rescued on November 27, she was 46 and had great difficulty in expressing herself. ....
Brazilian woman held as a slave for 38 years Madalena Gordiano s parents were relieved when a Brazilian family promised to adopt their daughter. But instead of being cared for, Gordiano was exploited as a domestic slave for almost four decades. Now she is free. Madalena Gordiano spent 38 years in slave-like conditions as a domestic worker Normally, labor inspector Humberto Monteiro Camasmie and his team monitor businesses and farms in Brazil s state of Minas Gerais to ensure they respect workers rights. But on November 27, Camasmie headed for a Brazilian family home in the city of Patos de Minas, armed with a search warrant, suspecting slave-like labor abuse at the residence. ....
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. ....