ILO pats Brazil for eliminating slavery from cotton, livestock sectors
20 Apr '06
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Patrícia Audi, National Coordinator of the International Labor Organization's (ILO) project for fighting slavery in Brazil conveyed that the country is regarded a model country, since it made great progress to fight against bonded labour.
A colloquium was organized in Sao Paulo on shouldering and exercising social responsibilities by companies and consumers respectively, as the crisis persists in diverse industrious sectors, such as livestock-raising, cotton, and soyabeans.
In May, 2005, with the signing of the National Pact Against Slave-like Labour, the private sector participants pledged not to buy things created with the employment of slavery.
Full support of the Brazilian Textile Industry Association with other entrepreneurs subscribing to the pact instantly, has helped in the reduction of slavery, said Audi.
The ILO took up the matter of abolishing slavery with cotton textile companies, black listing units that purchased inputs derived from slave labour.
She emphasized that consumers should also contribute to the fight against eliminating slavery by identifying the firms that do not adhere to the pact by demanding them to get on board.
She also called for applying pressure on the National Congress to approve the Constitutional Amendment bill (PEC) providing for the expropriation of properties where workers are subjected to bonded labour type of working conditions where ever discovered.
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