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Brazil ordered to pay $5m to workers formerly enslaved on cattle ranch
Source: The Guardian
Brazil ordered to pay $5m to workers formerly enslaved on cattle ranch
Inter-American Court of Human Rights rules Brazil
failed to prevent modern slavery, over workers rescued
in official raids between 1988 and 2000
Anna Gross
Monday 9 January 2017 17.26 GMT
The government of Brazil has been ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to pay $5m (£4.1m) to 128 former farm workers who were enslaved on a Brazilian farm between 1988-2000.
Brazil is the first country to be fined for failing to prevent slavery within its borders by the court, the legal arm of the Organisation of American States (OAS), a political and juridical forum comprising all 35 independent states of the Americas.
In a judgment in late December, the court ruled that Brazil had failed to put in place adequate measures and policies to prevent modern slavery and ordered the government to pay $5m to the workers. The 128 men were used as slave labour on Fazenda Brasil Verde, owned by the Quagliato Brothers group, one of the biggest cattle ranching companies in the north of the country. The ministry of work conducted 12 raids on the farm between 1988 and 2000 and rescued 340 workers from conditions of debt bondage and slavery.
In one of the last raids in 2000, officials found workers being watched over by armed security guards, threatened with violence and left without adequate shelter or food. They were promised salaries that they never received.
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights rules Brazil
failed to prevent modern slavery, over workers rescued
in official raids between 1988 and 2000
Anna Gross
Monday 9 January 2017 17.26 GMT
The government of Brazil has been ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to pay $5m (£4.1m) to 128 former farm workers who were enslaved on a Brazilian farm between 1988-2000.
Brazil is the first country to be fined for failing to prevent slavery within its borders by the court, the legal arm of the Organisation of American States (OAS), a political and juridical forum comprising all 35 independent states of the Americas.
In a judgment in late December, the court ruled that Brazil had failed to put in place adequate measures and policies to prevent modern slavery and ordered the government to pay $5m to the workers. The 128 men were used as slave labour on Fazenda Brasil Verde, owned by the Quagliato Brothers group, one of the biggest cattle ranching companies in the north of the country. The ministry of work conducted 12 raids on the farm between 1988 and 2000 and rescued 340 workers from conditions of debt bondage and slavery.
In one of the last raids in 2000, officials found workers being watched over by armed security guards, threatened with violence and left without adequate shelter or food. They were promised salaries that they never received.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/09/brazil-ordered-to-pay-5m-to-workers-formerly-enslaved-on-cattle-ranch
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