By Daniel Giovanaz |
12/05/22
Incidents of labour under conditions analogous to slavery on Brazilian coffee farms during the 2021 harvest were not enough to provoke a reaction from major importers of the bean in the United States and Europe. In October, Repórter Brasil told the story of workers...
By Daniel Giovanaz |
12/05/22
Sucafina Sucafina has a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of forced labor, including child labor. The fragmented nature of our coffee supply chain means that our policy commitments are frequently challenged, and we are always working to improve the tools at our...
By Poliana Dallabrida |
22/11/21
End of meal vouchers and paid commuting hours, lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), illegal searches, and pregnant women fired: working conditions among seasonal harvest employees at Cutrale – one of the world’s leading orange producers – get worse with each...
By Guilherme Henrique and Ana Magalhães* |
05/11/21
A simple internet search quickly shows the biggest exporters of soy, coffee, cattle or iron ore. But there is a strange silence when it comes to gold: presidents of institutions in the sector say they do not know the exporters; the Federal Revenue Service and the...
By Naira Hofmeister, Fernanda Wenzel and Pedro Papini |
04/11/21
Brazil’s National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) is financing meatpacking companies that slaughter animals raised on farms that have been illegally deforested, interdicted by Ibama, overlapping conservation units or indigenous lands, and that use...
By Naira Hofmeister |
28/10/21
A raft slides on the waters of a river in a remote area of the Amazon, carrying a Hyundai hydraulic excavator that weighs at least 15 tons into the forest. The scene was recorded by indigenous people and sent to authorities by WhatsApp, along with a request for help....
