Posts Tagged ‘Brazil’

Uncovering Slavery in Steel

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

How far up a supply chain should a company be held accountable?
In Carajas in Brazil’s eastern Amazon region, work is scarce and poverty and lawlessness are widespread. Opportunistic hacienda owners lure the desperate and unemployed to distant charcoal camps with promises of work, wages and shelter. Once at the camp, the owners levy illegal […]

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Report on Modern Slavery

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

WHEREAS:

Bloomberg Markets Magazine reported in a cover story that “Nucor Corp., the second-largest U.S. steel company, buys pig iron made with charcoal produced by slaves.” The article reported that these suppliers were identified by Brazilian labor officials as using slaves and also discussed the use of illegal logging in charcoal camps. (The Secret World of […]

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