Human Rights

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It’s High Time to End Conflation of Sex Work and Human Trafficking

The Covid-19 pandemic and the measures put in place to mitigate it have exacerbated ...

Venezuelan kids wait for a meal at a migrant shelter in Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil - Eraldo Peres/AP

Brazil Teaches the World How to Be Humane to Refugees

The global north tends to view the global south as a source of refugees, ...

Women walk along the Dutra highway to reach Guarulhos International Airport - Photo by Thomson Reuters Foundation

Victims of Human Trafficking These Women Are Jailed in Brazil as Drug Mules

Helena had been struggling to provide for her six-year-old son in Africa’s island nation ...

Brazil has a serious problem of slave labor

Brazil Government Turns to Cartoons and Movies to Fight Slave Labor

From a cartoon about child workers to an HBO mini series, Brazil is turning ...

Nestlé being accused in Brazil of not inspecting working conditions of its distributors

Nestlé and Danone Might Be Added to Brazil’s Slavery Dirty List

Global food companies Danone and Dairy Partners Americas Brasil (DPA), partly owned by Nestlé, ...

Venezuelan refugees receive temporary shelter in Boa Vista, Brazil - Marcelo Camargo/ABr

85,000 Venezuelan Refugees Fled to Brazil, Many of Them Children

Fleeing poverty and hunger, at least 1,000 Venezuelan children arrived at Brazil’s main entry ...

Brazil's incoming president Jair Bolsonaro has called Cuban doctors 'slave labor' because their government keeps about 75 percent of their pay

For Cuban Doctors in Brazil a Choice Between Being a Slave or a Refugee

Isabela, one of more than 8,000 Cuban health workers in Brazil, saw two options ...

Slave ship

How Brazil Used Cachaça, Tobacco and Gold to Keep Slave Trade Going

Sections of a Brazilian slave ship from the 19th century. Robert Walsh, as shown ...