This article is a continuation of ‘Slaves in the Amazon – Part 2’. Valdimar do Nascimento is 29 and recently fled the farm where he worked. This man Marabá account that the accumulated debt to his employer cut his salary 56 euros a month for spraying fields from sunrise to sunset. Prolonged contact with the […]
Mar 22 2012 | Posted in
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This article is a continuation of ‘Slaves in the Amazon – Part 1’. It seems that these threats do not frighten many entrepreneurs, who continue to resort to lies to recruit workers from other regions. "In recent years Brazil has improved somewhat, but efforts are being made are still insufficient," says Sakamoto. Among the major […]
Mar 21 2012 | Posted in
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IOM partners with Govt. of Niger and UNHCR to relocate over 500 Malian families IOM, in partnership with the Government of Niger and UNHCR, has relocated more than 500 vulnerable Malian families from insanitary and overcrowded makeshift settlements in and around the south-western border village of Sinegodar to a safe site away from the volatile […]
Mar 20 2012 | Posted in
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