Human Rights Workers on Death Threats in Brazil

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Posted: May 5 08

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brazil, human rights, Maranhao, Rescue, slaves, Tocatins, trafficking, workers

One form of Human Trafficking in Brazil involves luring poor workers away from their families with promises of high wages on large farms, ranches, and other rural businesses. This modern-day slavery is especially prevalent in the states of Maranhao and Tocantins. In this segment, human rights workers explain their work and threats to themselves and to slaves who attempt to escape. The human rights workers here explain how large ranch owners would make death threats against them because they were taking legal depositions to present to government officials. In the days before this video was made, death threats were amde against these people, which is why the video obscures their faces. They said: "Their lives were in the hands of God."

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