Only then did Brazil officially recognize the existence of contemporary forms of slavery. Since 2003, some US$ 26.4 million has been spent on compensation to victims. Prior to 2003, there was no ...

Allegations of labour abuse on Brazil building site cast a shadow over BYD’s plan for its first car factory outside Asia ...

the pilot asks. “Brazil is a civilized nation!” During centuries of slavery roughly five million African captives were brought to Brazil. Almost as soon as they were put to work, the slaves ...

Brazilian prosecutors found that workers building ... Tuesday said that they had rescued over 160 Chinese citizens from "slavery-like conditions." The workers had been building a factory for ...

"Slavery-like conditions", as defined by Brazilian law, include debt bondage and work that violates human dignity. The MPT added that the situation also constitutes "forced labour", as many ...

Canada's new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, may be a novice in politics but not to scandals, given his past at the investment ...

Although specific to Brazil, these autonomous spaces and social formations of fugitive slaves were kindred to the many maroon communities that were established across the Americas. Rooted in this ...

By the time of his death in 1886 at the home he shared with his three daughters, the final emancipation of slaves in Brazil would still be two years away. Painting of Montrose High Street ...

and Brazil, live in conditions of forced bondage. Some sources believe the actual figures are 10 times as large. Richard Re, A Persisting Evil: The Global Problem of Slavery, Harvard International ...

In this manner, they managed to estimate the participation of the different African regions in sending slaves to Brazil, the last country in Latin America to abolish slavery with the signing of the ...

“As a result of his anti-slavery heritage and because of his experience of Brazilian slavery, when Darwin returned to Europe in 1836 he conceived his image of common ancestry. His notebooks from 1837 ...