BRASILIA, Sept 3 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Brazilian authorities managed to rescue 6,761 people in conditions analogous to slavery in three years, according to the Ministry of Labor and Employment, quoted by the R7 portal.
In 2023, the country beat the record number of cases, with 3,240 workers removed from this situation, a slightly higher number than in the previous calendar, when 2,587 were counted.
Also according to the file, up to August this year, 934 rescues were notified, one of the cases being that of a 94-year-old woman.
Slave-like work is characterized as work in which the person is subjected to exhausting workdays, degrading working conditions, forced labor or debt bondage.
Such crime is punishable with imprisonment from two to eight years and a fine, in addition to the penalty corresponding to the violence.
According to the head of the Forced Labor Repression Division of the Federal Police, Henrique Oliveira Santos, this year alone 482 police investigations were opened throughout Brazil to investigate this crime.
The state of Minas Gerais (southeast) leads with 86 investigations, followed by Sao Paulo (66) and Pará (47).
According to the general coordinator of the Surveillance for the Eradication of Slave Labor and Human Trafficking, André Roston, from the Labor and Employment portfolio, one of the identification profiles that has been repeated over the years and needs attention, due to the workday, is that of domestic employees. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA
