Bring Slavery Into Sight in Brazil and End It!

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Bring Slavery Into Sight in Brazil and End It!

Summary

WITNESS and Commissão Pastoral da Terra produced Bound by Promises: Contemporary Slavery in Rural Brazil to raise visibility and push Brazil to fully enact the National Plan to Eradicate Slave Labor.

Project Challenge 2008 participant.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $96 was raised for this project.

Received $96 from 4 donations from people like:

(Anon.)

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Throughout the North of Brazil, 25,000 men each year are offered jobs and the promise of a better future for their families. They are taken to isolated ranches mostly in the Amazon only to find that they have been lured into debt bondage. Forced to do backbreaking work and live in overcrowded shacks with no running water, armed guards remind the workers that those who try to run away may be killed. With no way out, they toil in the hope of buying back their freedom.

Activities

An international media campaign and petition to President Lulu will put the necessary pressure to finally help win passage of a Constitutional Amendment that would allow land to be confiscated - without compensation - from those practicing slavery.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $96

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $96. The original project funding goal was $7,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Forced labor is a severe violation of human rights and restriction of human freedom. Tightened laws, increased penalties and expropriated land belonging to slave holders redistributed to poor landless farmers will help end the cycle of slavery.

Project Message

“We worry about our husbands and brothers. And, in the future, it will be our children.” “I hope for justice…justice should be done.” “We need so little - just a piece of land to make ends meet.”
- Anonymous from film Bound by Promises, Men and women impacted by modern day slavery