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Bound by Promises: Slavery in rural Brazil (Excerpts)

Every year, more than 25,000 workers are enslaved by landowners in rural Brazil, mostly in the Amazon region....

Brazil

Slavery & forced labor

Witnessed: 16824 times

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Prezados Candidatos [Dear Candidate]

Sucessivos governos brasileiros recorrem às forças de segurança pública para lidar com os sintomas da negligência do Estado....

Brazil

Witnessed: 12913 times

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Operation Bold Employee- domestic worker protest in Peru

Hundreds marched onto the beaches of Asia, a Peruvian resort south of Lima, under the banner “Basta de Racismo” (Stop Racism), after domestic workers were banned from swimming at the beaches befor...

Peru

Racial discrimination, Torture/ill treatment, Violence against women

Witnessed: 11509 times

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Witnessed: 11156 times

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Witnessed: 11107 times

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Firmas por Jorge Julio Lopez

Hace ya muchos MESES que secuestraron a Jorge Julio López, un testigo clave en el juicio contra el comisario genocida argentino Miguel Etchetcolatz....

Argentina

Forced disappearances

Witnessed: 10283 times

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Burlington Resources (now Conoco) in Ecuador

Background on attempted oil exploitation by Burlington, now owned by Conoco, in indigenous lands in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Ecuador

Environment, Indigenous peoples, Internally displaced persons

Witnessed: 9886 times

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Amazon SOS

A public service announcement about the need to protect the Amazon Rainforest and the indigenous communities who reside there, narrated by Martin Sheen.

Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador

Environment, Indigenous peoples

Witnessed: 9456 times

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Conoco at the Crossroads

Burlington, now owned by Conoco/Phillips, owns or holds shares in oil export licenses in the Ecuadorian Amazon....

Ecuador

Environment, Indigenous peoples, Internally displaced persons

Witnessed: 9401 times

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Ghost Train

Argentina's economic crisis in the early 2000s threw tens of thousands of people out of work....

Argentina

Poverty

Witnessed: 9269 times

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