Posts Tagged ‘Latin America’

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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