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Brazil makes progress against
slave labor
Brazil was making progress
against slave labor, but more
efforts on legislation were
still required, the
International Labor Organization
(ILO) said in a study published
on Wednesday.
Speaking at a presentation on
the study, Roger Plant, an ILO
senior official, praised Brazil
as the first Latin American
country to recognize and pledge
to solve the problem.
The study, called by a
non-government organization
Reporter Brazil and the ILO,
examined Brazil's efforts to
realize the 75 goals set in the
2003 Brazilian government's
National Slave Labor Eradication
Plan. It also profiled those
workers most likely to be
victims of this abuse.
Some 77.7 percent of the
published goals were achieved in
early 2005 thanks to the
training and education of
workers about their rights and
legal guarantees, said the
report.
The report showed that
prosecutions of slave labor
cases had improved, freeing more
people from slave labor.
The ILO called for a change in
the law to combat slave labor,
particularly clearer definitions
of the responsibility of those
federal and state prosecutors.
Between 2002 and 2004, the
Amazon region of Para was the
region that witnessed most
registered cases of slave labor,
showed the study.
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