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Report criticises Brazilian poultry labour practices

4 Dec 2017

• 4 Dec 10:02

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Thousands of people are victims of forced labour and inhumane work conditions in Brazil’s burgeoning poultry and meat sectors, with some having to work 20 hours a day, a new report has suggested. Slave labour in Brazil’s poultry sector is “endemic”, according to a report led by the Washington-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) that called for improved working conditions, enforced labour rights and implementation of work contracts. Violators of Brazil’s anti-slavery laws While companies such as JBS have signed the National Pact for the Eradication of Slave Labour, which binds them to suppliers, the report says the. Read more...