Journalism
Illegal gold export
The mystery surrounding gold exports has been broken by an exclusive Repórter Brasil: BP Trading saw exponential growth in the last two years with revenues of R$ 1.4 billion in 2019
Cattle and deforestation on indigenous land
The public development bank BNDES is financing meatpacking companies that slaughter animals raised on farms that have been illegally deforested and use slave labour
Illegal mining in the Amazon
Backhoe makers accelerate deforestation; companies claim to be committed to environmental protection, but do not take steps to curb illegal use
Wages illegally deducted
The workers at Cooxupé’s president’s farm had up to 30% of their wages deducted to pay for the use of portable harvesting machines that pull coffee tree branches to take the beans
The Yanomami blood gold
‘Amazônia Real’ and ‘Repórter Brasil’ produced seven stories that show the path of gold from the illegal extraction that devastates the Yanomami Indigenous Territory to its transformation into luxury jewels
‘Consortia of deception’
The Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area appears at the top of several lists of conservation units with the highest rates of deforestation and fires
Conflict of interest?
Half of the state representatives who approved the reduction of protected areas in Rondônia are cattle ranchers or were financed by rural landowners
Financial support
Banks funded meatpackers Ribeiro, Frigol, Fortefrigo and Masterboi, which bought around 78,000 head of cattle from areas with evidence of irregularities
Fraud in authorization for rural activity
Formoso Farm had been granted a provisional authorization for rural operation. However, the license was based on a mistaken Rural Environmental Registry from another area
Cova Medida
An x-ray of the violence and impunity in rural areas of Brazil, with the stories behind the murder of 31 workers, indigenous leaders and environmentalists in the first year of the Bolsonaro government
RB's study will subsidize international campaign for ethical eating
The agribusiness behind the Pantanal fires
According to an investigation by Repórter Brasil, blazes in the Brazilian tropical wetland started on cattle farms whose owners supply giants like JBS, Marfrig and Minerva
A landmark victory for indigenous rights
Kayapó and Panará peoples win in court the right to renew a plan to minimize the impacts of BR-163, a highway that threatens their territories. The Federal Government must present a plan to mitigate damages
It's not just Covid-19 that threatens to indigenous
American religious organizations map indigenous peoples in Brazil and do not disrupt actions with respect to uncontacted tribes, even during the pandemic. Contact with isolated groups was criticized by entities
Zero illegal deforestation target flops
Shy actions by the Mato Grosso state government and the Bolsonaro administration’s anti-environmental agenda encourage degradation of the Amazon forest in the state
BB and BNDES and deforestation
The two financial institutions are the largest providers of credit to commodity industries, which are the chief driver of forests destruction in Brazil, according to a study conducted by the international coalition Forests & Finance
Chocolate with slave labour
Workers living in terrible accommodation, with no bathrooms or drinking water, and paid below the minimum wage: that is the sad reality of cocoa production in Brazil that benefits agribusiness giants
One year after ‘Fire Day', impunity prevails
No one has been arrested one year after the attack by ranchers and businessmen. Conflict between State and Federal Police as well as suspects’ ties to politicians may have hindered investigations
Power of the military in the Amazon Rainforest
Gradual dismantling of state policies, with dismissal of experienced technicians and lower transparency, encourages actions by sectors that keep devastating the forest illegally and expect pardon and profits
The beach scheduled for demolition
Between health and profit
Investigations by Repórter Brasil about the pharmaceutical industry reveal strategies to maximize profits and secure millionaire contracts with the federal government
Tax exemptions on pesticides in Brazil
Companies that manufacture and sell pesticides in Brazil are protected by a package of benefits that, counting just tax exemptions and reductions, add up to nearly R$10 billion (US$ 2.2 billion) every year
Pesticides found in water of Brazilian cities
São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other 1,300 cities found pesticides in the water supply. Data from the Health Ministry shows that Brazilian drinking water is contaminated with ingredients associated with chronic diseases
JBS and Amazon-deforesting companies
Punished for buying livestock from deforested areas in 2017, the company still sources livestock from Amazon-deforesting companies. In the Amazon, an area equivalent to Brasilia is cleared annually to be converted into pasture
JBS, Marfrig and Frigol buy cattle from deforesters
New survey by Repórter Brasil reveals cases of farmers fined for environmental crimes that link deforestation and burning to global meatpacking companies
Supermarkets and the slave labor
Carrefour, Pão de Açúcar and another major supermarket chain bought products from meatpackers whose suppliers include ranchers charged with slave labor offencers
Families face risk of evictions in Pará
Agropecuária Santa Bárbara Xinguara – a company led by the banker who owns the Opportunity group – was granted an injunction to repossess a farm occupied in 2008 by 212 families in Eldorado dos Carajás
Slave labor
Brazilian labor inspectors found six employees in Minas Gerais state working in conditions analogous to slavery in farm certified by both Starbucks and Nestlé-controlled brand Nespresso
Bolsonarista crusade
Lumberjack and politician bolsonarista, Silvério Fernandes, announces an accusatory campaign against Father Amaro, successor of the missionary Dorothy Stang, in Anapu (Pará)
Slave labor at Starbucks-certified coffee plantation
Bolsonaro is harmful to the environment
‘Ruralist’ police
Meat industry encroaches on Paraguayan Chaco
Good practice: slavery
The crooked paths of Suape
Acre against Chico Mendes
100 years of servitude
Massacre in Pará
Rural War
Escalation of rural violence foretells climate of war in 2017. Brazil is the champion in deaths of leaders in the field. We investigate the stories behind the numbers.
Lives in Danger
The 21st Century Settlers
Major Brands Linked to Slave Labor
There is no Regulation
Leading expert on modern-day slavery Kevin Bales talks about the lack of tools available to stop the flow of money from consumers to networks facilitating human rights abuse and environmental destruction
The life of cows turned into meat at JBS
Tapajós dams
Tapajós dam puts species at risk
Proposed Amazon dam attracts illegal loggers
Munduruku fighting dams
Belo Monte
The Amazon rots away
‘Transparency List of Slave Labor’
GIG - The Uberization of Work
APP-based services and digital platforms grow worldwide. But the advance of the so-called “gig economy”, also known as “uberization”, has promoted debates on precariousness and intensification of work
Under death threat
Ka'apor seek to break with the rest of society
The indigenous people of Maranão, one of the poorest regions of the country, got tired of waiting for help and decided to break with the society of Karaís, as non-indigenous call it
Massacre in Pará: survivors describe the killings
Survivors describe what happened during the Pau D´arco massacre, where 10 landless people were killed by the police during an operation in the Santa Lucia farm
Wood and Slavery
The ashes of Belo Monte
Edge of a cliff
To the bone
Jaci, sevens sins of an Amazonian work
During four years, this documentary collected stories on a small town in the Amazon that was radically changed since the beginning of a huge hydroeletric plant nearby
Do not breathe - Contains Asbestos
Brewing up a sustainable coffee supply chain
The social responsibility of coffee roasters and private label coffee in Finland. Human rights violations such as child labour continue to be directly associated with coffee cultivation
Monitor #2
Lack of a formal contracts, excessive working hours and unhealthy conditions are just some of the problems of Brazil’s poultry industry, the second largest poultry producer in the world
Monitor #1
Globalization and concentration in Brazil’s agri-food system. The emergence of large business groups is one of the most visible results of the changes undergone by Brazil’s food industry in the last two decades
From moral responsibility to legal liability?
Modern day slavery conditions in the global garment supply chain and the need to strengthen regulatory frameworks: The case of Inditex-Zara in Brazil and the conditions ‘analogous to slavery’
Brazil, new manufacturing hotspot?
In recent years many multinational companies in the electronics and electrical industry have found their way to Brazil. But workers face poor labor conditions
Brazil of Biofuels (2009)
A study on the use of animal fat to produce biodiesel, dedicating special attention to two crops that have not been covered: sunflower and rapeseed. Will the advancement of soybean not destroy the Cerrado and Amazon?
Brazil of Biofuels (2009)
Under the general aim of annually monitoring the effects of crops used to produce bioenergy, this is our first updating report concerning soybean and castor bean
Brazil of Biofuels (2009)
The impacts caused by the expansion of the sugar-alcohol industry in Brazil involve overexploitation of workers, disrespect for communities, traditional populations, and indigenous peoples, and environmental degradation
Brazil of Biofuels (2008)
Research on sugarcane, an expanding crop facing the ethanol global boom, brings an alert: one hand, high investments and technology development; on the other, environmental problems and laboural superexploitation
Brazil of Biofuels (2008)
Palms, Cotton, Corn and Jatropha. The report shows analysis, case studies and reports on the socio-economic, environmental, land related and labour related impacts