http://hub.witness.org/en/rss/term/22 Witness RSS feed en http://hub.witness.org/en/node/11365 <p> Every year, <b>more than 25,000 workers are enslaved</b> by landowners in rural Brazil, mainly in the Amazon region. They are generally men between the ages of 18-35 who are lured into forced labor with false promises of good pay and job security. Taken to remote ranches, their documents are confiscated and they are told they owe the landowners money for their travel, food, equipment, and other supplies.  As the unending and unpayable debts mount, these workers are held under the <b>constant watch of armed guards</b>, unable to escape or ask for help. </p> <p><a href="http://hub.witness.org/en/node/11365">read more</a></p> http://hub.witness.org/en/node/11365#comments Bonded labor Bound by Promises Brazil CEJIL Complement CPT Debt Bondage Impunity slave labor Slavery &amp; forced labor WITNESS Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:17:04 -0800 Priscila Néri 11365 at http://hub.witness.org http://hub.witness.org/en/node/11365 <p> Every year, <b>more than 25,000 workers are enslaved</b> by landowners in rural Brazil, mainly in the Amazon region. They are generally men between the ages of 18-35 who are lured into forced labor with false promises of good pay and job security. Taken to remote ranches, their documents are confiscated and they are told they owe the landowners money for their travel, food, equipment, and other supplies.  As the unending and unpayable debts mount, these workers are held under the <b>constant watch of armed guards</b>, unable to escape or ask for help. </p> <p><a href="http://hub.witness.org/en/node/11365">read more</a></p> http://hub.witness.org/en/node/11365#comments Bonded labor Bound by Promises Brazil CEJIL Complement CPT Debt Bondage Impunity slave labor Slavery &amp; forced labor WITNESS Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:17:04 -0800 Priscila Néri 11365 at http://hub.witness.org http://hub.witness.org/en/node/11365 <p> Every year, <b>more than 25,000 workers are enslaved</b> by landowners in rural Brazil, mainly in the Amazon region. They are generally men between the ages of 18-35 who are lured into forced labor with false promises of good pay and job security. Taken to remote ranches, their documents are confiscated and they are told they owe the landowners money for their travel, food, equipment, and other supplies.  As the unending and unpayable debts mount, these workers are held under the <b>constant watch of armed guards</b>, unable to escape or ask for help. </p> <p><a href="http://hub.witness.org/en/node/11365">read more</a></p> http://hub.witness.org/en/node/11365#comments Bonded labor Bound by Promises Brazil CEJIL Complement CPT Debt Bondage Impunity slave labor Slavery &amp; forced labor WITNESS Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:17:04 -0800 Priscila Néri 11365 at http://hub.witness.org http://hub.witness.org/en/content/campaign-fair-food <p>A collection of interviews from members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers about their Campaign for Fair Food, the working conditions that make the Campaign necessary, and how YOU can get involved to help win real rights for Florida tomato pickers.</p> http://hub.witness.org/en/content/campaign-fair-food#comments CIW corporate responsibility Corporations and human rights fair food farmworkers florida immokalee interview justice Labor modern-day slavery OK for all Slavery &amp; forced labor United States 26.417029 -81.417693 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:28:19 -0800 CIW 11265 at http://hub.witness.org http://hub.witness.org/en/content/campaign-fair-food <p>A collection of interviews from members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers about their Campaign for Fair Food, the working conditions that make the Campaign necessary, and how YOU can get involved to help win real rights for Florida tomato pickers.</p> http://hub.witness.org/en/content/campaign-fair-food#comments CIW corporate responsibility Corporations and human rights fair food farmworkers florida immokalee interview justice Labor modern-day slavery OK for all Slavery &amp; forced labor United States 26.417029 -81.417693 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:28:19 -0800 CIW 11265 at http://hub.witness.org http://hub.witness.org/en/content/campaign-fair-food <p>A collection of interviews from members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers about their Campaign for Fair Food, the working conditions that make the Campaign necessary, and how YOU can get involved to help win real rights for Florida tomato pickers.</p> http://hub.witness.org/en/content/campaign-fair-food#comments CIW corporate responsibility Corporations and human rights fair food farmworkers florida immokalee interview justice Labor modern-day slavery OK for all Slavery &amp; forced labor United States 26.417029 -81.417693 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:28:19 -0800 CIW 11265 at http://hub.witness.org http://hub.witness.org/en/node/11100 <p>Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere and the poverty has fuelled restavek, a system of domestic servitude of hundreds of thousands of children that is tantamount to modern-day slavery.</p> <p>The country's government acknowledges that child slaves exist but says it is part of the culture.</p> <p>Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports. (October 13, 2008)</p> http://hub.witness.org/en/node/11100#comments Child labor child labor child slavery Haiti Haiti journalism OK for all Poverty Poverty slavery Slavery &amp; forced labor Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:17:19 -0700 aljazeeraenglish 11100 at http://hub.witness.org http://hub.witness.org/en/node/11100 <p>Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere and the poverty has fuelled restavek, a system of domestic servitude of hundreds of thousands of children that is tantamount to modern-day slavery.</p> <p>The country's government acknowledges that child slaves exist but says it is part of the culture.</p> <p>Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports. (October 13, 2008)</p> http://hub.witness.org/en/node/11100#comments Child labor child labor child slavery Haiti Haiti journalism OK for all Poverty Poverty slavery Slavery &amp; forced labor Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:17:19 -0700 aljazeeraenglish 11100 at http://hub.witness.org http://hub.witness.org/en/node/11100 <p>Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere and the poverty has fuelled restavek, a system of domestic servitude of hundreds of thousands of children that is tantamount to modern-day slavery.</p> <p>The country's government acknowledges that child slaves exist but says it is part of the culture.</p> <p>Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports. (October 13, 2008)</p> http://hub.witness.org/en/node/11100#comments Child labor child labor child slavery Haiti Haiti journalism OK for all Poverty Poverty slavery Slavery &amp; forced labor Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:17:19 -0700 aljazeeraenglish 11100 at http://hub.witness.org http://hub.witness.org/en/node/8876 <p>created by madmundo.tv</p> http://hub.witness.org/en/node/8876#comments Africa Decent Work Every Human Has Rights Labor Liberia Mary Robinson MDGs Millennium Development Goals OK for all Poverty slavery Slavery &amp; forced labor womens rights Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:45:37 -0700 Every Human Has Rights 8876 at http://hub.witness.org