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Presidency of the Republic of Brazil National Plan For Eradication Of Forced Labor .
Presidency of the Republic of Brazil
National Plan For Eradication Of Forced Labor
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© 2003, Presidency of the Republic of Brazil Special Commission of the Council for the
Defense of the Rights of the Human Person ofthe Special Secretariat of Human Rights.
National plan to eradicate forced labor / Special Commission of the Council for theDefense of the Rights of the Human Person ofthe Special Secretariat of Human Rights. International Labor Organization – Brasília: ILO, 2003
44 p., tab.
I. ILO. 1. Forced labor. 2. Slave labor. 3. Combat of slave labor.
Federative Republic of Brazil
Members and invited persons of the Special Commission of CDDPH, established by Resolution No. 5, of January 28, 2002. Nilmário Miranda – Chairman Alessandra Barcelos Carneiro – Department of Federal Highway Police Carla Cassara – Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources Cláudia Chagas – National Secretary of Justice of the Ministry of Justice Cláudia Secchia – Ministry of Labor and Employment..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Cleverson Lautert Cruz - Department of Federal Highway Police.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Déborah M. Duprat de Brito Pereira – Federal Attorney General’s Office...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Denise Vinci Túlio – Federal Attorney General’s Office............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Flávio Dino de C. e Costa – Association of the Federal Judges of Brazil......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Gercino José da Silva Filho – Ministry of Agrarian Development...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Guilherme Pedro Neto – National Confederation of Agricultural Workers Henri Burin des Roziers – Pastoral Land Commission Hugo Luis Castro de Mello – Federal Attorney’s Office for the Rights of Citizens Ivaneck Peres Alves - National Confederation of Agricultural Workers José de Souza Martins – University of São Paulo Luis Antônio Camargo de Mello – Public Labor Prosecutor’s Office Luis Henrique Fanan – National Institute of Social Security................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Marcelo Antônio Serra Azul – Federal Attorney General’s Office Marcelo Diniz Cordeiro – Federal Police Department
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Mariela Villas Bôas Dias – Federal Attorney’s Office for the Rights of Citizens Mauricio Correia e Mello - Public Labor Prosecutor’s Office............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Oscar Gattica – National Movement of Human Rights Patricia Audi – International Labor Organization Patrícia Galvão Ferreira – Center for Justice and International Law......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Paulo Sérgio Domíngues – Association of the Federal Judges of Brazil Perly Cip Rachel ARights Raquel Efor the R Ricardo Human Roberto Lawyers
Robinson Neves Filho – Brazilian Bar of Lawyers Rodolfo Tavares – Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock Ruth Vilela – Labor Inspection Secretariat of the Ministry of Labor and Employment Sebastião Vieira Caixeta - Public Labor Prosecutor’s Office Simone Ambros Pereira - Special Secretariat of Human Rights Terezinha Matilde Licks - Public Labor Prosecutor’s Office
riano – Special Secretariat of Human Rights
ndrade Cunha – Special Secretariat of Human
lias Ferreira Dodge - Federal Attorney’s Office ights of Citizens
Resende – Social Network of Justice and Rights
de Figueiredo Caldas – Brazilian Bar of ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Valderez Maria Monte Rodrigues - Ministry of Labor and Employment Valdinho Jacinto Caetano – Federal Police Department Xavier Jean Marie Plassat – Pastoral Land Commission
Table of Contents
1. General Actions 11 2. Improvement of the Administrative Structure 16 of the Mobile Inspection Group 3. Improvement of the Administrative Structure 20 of Police Action 4. Improvement of the Administrative Structure 24 of the Federal Attorney General’s Office and of the Public Labor Prosecutor’s Office 5. Specific Actions for the Promotion of Citizenship 27 and for Combating Impunity 6. Specific Actions for Awareness, 31 Empowerment and Sensibility
Changes in Legislation 34 Glossary 38
Foreword More than 100 years have elapsed since the signature of the Áurea Law and our country is still living with the signs left from the exploitation of slave labor. In Brazil, contemporary slavery is expressed in clandestineness and is marked by authoritarianism, corruption, social segregation, racism, favoritism and disrespect of human rights. According to the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT)’s numbers, there are in Brazil 25 thousand persons submitted to conditions similar to those of forced labor. This data reflects the reality of a serious violation of human rights, which disgraces not only Brazilians but the whole international community. Being aware that the eradication of forced labor is a basic condition for the Democratic Rule of Law, the new Government has made one of it’s main priorities the eradication of all contemporary forms of slavery. Facing such a challenge requires political willingness, articulation, action planning and the definition of objective goals.
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We have, therefore, launched the National Plan for Eradication of Forced Labor, which presents measures to be taken by several bodies of the Executive, legislative and Judiciary Branches, the Prosecution Office and entities of the Brazilian civil society. The updating of the proposals already articulated on previous years, the document considers actions and achievements carried out by the different bodies faced with such challenges during recent years. In this context, it is worth mentioning the Special Mobile Inspection Group of the Ministry of Labor and Employment, whose performance has been fundamental to combat contemporary forms of slavery. The present document has been elaborated by the Special Commission of the Council for the Defense of the Rights of the Human Person (CDDPH), established by Resolution number 05/2002 d to the theme.
from CDDPH and which congregates national entities and authorities relate
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The National Plan for Eradication of Forced Labor satisfies the determinations of the National Plan of Human Rights and expresses a continuing public policy to be inspected by a national body or forum dedicated to the repression of forced labor. Integration shall be the mark of our work. With the actual Plan, the commitment of the government bodies and of the civil society, it will be possible to make this Government a milestone in respect to the definitive eradication of all forms of forced and degrading work in
Brazil. Minister Nilmário Miranda Special Secretariat of Human Rights Minister Jaques Wagner Ministry of Labor and Employment
National Plan For Eradication Of Forced Labor
01 General Actions
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01 Description of Proposal Responsible Entities Term 1 - To declare the eradication and repression of contemporary forced labor as priorities of the Brazilian state.
Presidency of the Republic Short-Term
2 - To adopt the National Plan for the Eradication of Forced Labor, with the objective of enforcing the goals established in the PNDH II.
Presidency of the Republic, SEDH, Council for the Economic and Social Development, MTE, MJ, MPF/PFDC, MPT, MMA/IBAMA, MDA/INCRA, MPS/INSS, MAPS, PRF, PF, Federal Justice, Labor Justice, ILO, OAB, CPT, CONTAG, CNA, AJUFE, ANAMATRA and the Civil Society
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3 - To establish strategies for integrated operational action in relation to the preventive and repressive actions by the Executive, Judiciary bodies, by the Federal Attorney General’s Office and the civil society, with the objective of eradicating forced labor.
Presidency of the Republic, SEDH, Council for the Economic and Social Development, MTE, MJ, MPF/PFDC, MPT, MMA/IBAMA, MDA/INCRA, MF/SRF, MPS/INSS, MAPS, PRF, PF, Federal Justice, Labor Justice, OAB, ANTT, CPT, CONTAG, CNA, AJUFE, ANAMATRA and the Civil Society
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4 - To include in the Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) Program municipalities in the states of Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pará, Piauí, Tocantins and others, identified as focus of illegal recruitment of workers used as forced labor.
SEDH and Extraordinary Ministry of Food Safety and Hunger Combat
Short-Term
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5 - To give priority to processes and steps regarding forced labor, at the following bodies: DRTs/MTE, SIT/MTE, MPT, Labor Justice, INSS, DPF, MPF and Federal Justice Managements.
DRTs/ MTE, SIT/MTE, MPT, Labor Justice, Labor Justice, INSS, DPF, MPF and Federal Justice, Managements, AJUFE and ANAMATRA
Short-Term
6 - To include the crimes of submission or incitement of an individual to a condition similar to that of a slave and in the Laws of Heinous Crimes, to change the respective penalties and to change Law number 5889, of June 8, 1973, by means of a Bill or a Provisional Bill, pursuant to the attached proposals.
MJ, MTE, SEDH, Presidency of the Republic and National Congress
Short-Term
7 - To approve the PEC 438/2001, by Senator Ademir Andrade, based on PEC 232/1995, by Congressman Paulo Rocha, attached to the first one, which alters art. 243 of the Federal Constitution and gives provisions for the expropriation of tracts of land on which workers are submitted to conditions similar to that of slavery.
MTE, SEDH, Presidency of the Republic and National Congress
Short-Term
8 - To approve Bill number 2022/1996, by Congressman Eduardo Jorge, which forbids the formalization of contracts with bodies and entities of the public administration and the participation in bidding processes by companies which, directly or indirectly, use forced labor in the production of goods and services
SEDH, National Congress and Presidency of the Republic
Short-Term
9 - To insert contractual clauses hindering the acquisition and maintenance of rural credit and fiscal incentives in the contracts of the financing agencies, when the existence of forced or degrading work has been proved.
BACEN and MG/STN
Short-Term
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10 - To establish and maintain an integrated database to gather diversified information collected from the main agents involved in the combat against forced labor; to identify employers and employees, places of incitement and occurrence of crime; to enable the identification of the nature of the properties (if they are on a public or private area and they are productive or unproductive), to monitor ongoing cases, the work resulting from the performance of MTE, IBAMA, SRF and also the inquiries, actions and respective judicial decisions in the labor and penal area.
Presidency of the Republic, SEDH, MTE, MJ, MPF/PFDC, MPT, MMA/IBAMA, MDA/INCRA, MPS/INSS, PRF, PF, Federal Justice, Labor Justice, ILO, OAB, CPT, CONTAG, AJUFE, ANAMATRA and the Civil Society.
Short-Term
11 To forward to AJUFE and ANAMATRA the list of judicial proceedings on forced labor, which are in course at the Judiciary Branch, in order to facilitate the action and sensitivity of the Federal and Labor Judges directly involved.
MPF and MPT Short-Term
12 - To systematize the exchange of all relevant information regarding forced labor.
MTE, SEDH, MJ, MF/SRF MF, MPS/INSS, MMA/IBAMA, MDA/INCRA, PRF, PF, MPF, MPT and TCU
Short-Term
13 - To establish the National Council for Eradication of Slave Labor – CONATRAE, linked to the Special Secretariat of Human Rights of the Presidency of the Republic
Presidency of the Republic and SEDH
Short-Term
14 - To establish an Executive Group for the Eradication of Forced Labor, as the operational body linked to CONATRAE, to assure a joint and articulated action in the inspection operations between the Mobile Teams, MPT, Labor Justice, MPF, Federal Justice, MF/SRF, MMA/IBAMA and MPS/INSS and other actions aiming at the Eradication of Forced Labor.
Presidency of the Republic SEDH and MTE
Short-Term
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15 - To commit the partners involved in the eradication of forced labor to participate in SIPAM and use it to empower fiscal and repressive action.
Presidency of the Republic, MTE, Ministry of Defense, MMA/IBAMA, DPF, DPRF, MPF, MPT, MDA/INCRA, CPT, CONTAG and CAN
Short-Term
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National Plan For Eradication Of Forced Labor
02 Improvement of the Administrative Structure of the
Mobile Inspection Group
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02 Description of Proposal Responsible Entities Term I. Improvement of Structure 16 - To make permanently available to the Mobile Inspection Group:
• 6 teams for the State of Pará • 2 teams for the State of Maranhão • 2 teams for the State of Mato Grosso • 2 teams for the remaining States
MTE, MPOG, Presidency of the Republic and National Congress
Short and Medium Terms
17 - To provide the Mobile Inspection with 12 additional and equipped vehicles
MTE, MPOG, Presidency of the Republic and National Congress
Short and Medium Terms
18 - To provide the Mobile Inspection Group with a better logistic structure, computer and communication tools, with the purpose of ensuring greater mobility.
MTE, MPOG, Presidency of the Republic and National Congress
Short-Term
19 - To promote a public appointment, already scheduled, for the position of Fiscal Labor Auditors, for the filling of the existing vacant positions, for specific action against forced labor.
MTE, MPOG, Presidency of the Republic and National Congress
Short-Term
20 - To submit the Bill establishing the positions of Fiscal Labor Auditor, if there are no vacant positions sufficient to fully fulfill the request.
MTE, MPOG, Presidency of the Republic and National Congress
Medium Term
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II. Promotion of Efficiency 21 - To formally define, within the MTE, a priority in relation to the eradication forced labor.
MTE
Short-Term
22 - To define preventive and repressive inspection goals and actions in function of the existing demand in each region.
MTE Short and Medium Terms
23 – To determine the inclusion into the Pluriannual Plan – PPA 2004 / 2007 of the program for eradication of forced labor as a strategy program, and also to define sufficient appropriations to implement the actions defined in this document.
Presidency of the Republic, SEDH, MTE, MJ and MPOG
Short-Term
24 - To establish a new budget item with specific and sufficient appropriations to the temporary lodging of the victims from forced and degrading work.
Presidency of the Republic, National Congress, SEDH, MTE and MPOG
Short-Term
25 - To invest in the formation / qualification of the Labor Fiscal Auditors, of Federal Police Agents and IBAMA’s Inspectors and to establish specific functional incentives in order to stimulate the adhesion to the Inspection Group and to allow their dedication to the eradication of forced labor.
MTE, DPF, IBAMA, MPOG, Presidency of the Republic and National Congress
Short and Medium Terms
26 - To create a structure to support the Regional Coordinators of the Mobile Inspection, at the places where they are located, with the objective of accelerating work performance.
MTE
Short-Term
27 - To strengthen the Division of Support to the Mobile Inspection of SITE/MTE, with the objective of accelerating the bureaucratic steps needed to its operation.
MTE
Short-Term
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28 - To assure the rapid flow in the submission of reports produced by the Mobile Inspection Group to the MPF and MPT, thus assuring the quality of the information therein contained.
MTE
Short-Term
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National Plan For Eradication Of Forced Labor
03 Improvement of the Administrative
Structure of Police Action
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03 Description of Proposal Responsible Entities Term I. Improvement of the Police Action Structure 29 - To continuously make available, for the performance of the Judiciary Police activities by the Federal Police, in the combat of forced labor:
• 60 agents and 12 Chiefs of Police in the State of Pará
• 10 agents and 4 Chiefs of Police in the State of Maranhão
• 10 agents and 4 chiefs of Police in the State of Mato Grosso
• 10 agents and 4 Chiefs of Police in the remaining States
DPF, MJ, MPOG, Presidency of the Republic and National Congress
Short and Medium Terms
30 - To guarantee budget and financial funds to cover travel and per diem expenses of the Chiefs of Police, Federal Police Agents and their respective assistants, in order to enable the participation of the DPF in all inspection activities, with the purpose of accelerating the procedures for the adoption of the required administrative and police steps.
Presidency of the Republic, National Congress, MJ, DPF and MPOG
Short-Term
31 - To establish at Federal Police Stations in the cities of Imperatriz/MA, Teresina/PI, Araguarina/TO, Marabá/PA, Cuiabá/MT and Cruzeiro do Sul/AC, a specific area for the eradication of forced labor, with at least 01 chief of police and 05 Federal Police Agents.
DPF, MJ and the Presidency of the Republic
Medium Term
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32 - To establish Federal Police Stations in the cities of São Felix do Xingu/PA, Tucuruí/PA, Redenção/PA, Vila Rica/MT, Juína/MT, Sinop/MT, Urucuí/PI, Floriano/PI, Barras/PI, Corrente/PI, Bacabal/MA, Buriticupu/MA and Balsas/MA with a specific objectives for the eradication of forced labor.
DPF, MJ a Presidency of the Republic
Medium Term
II. Promotion of the Police Acton Efficiency 33 - To strengthen the integration between the actions of the PF and PRF as Judiciary Police of the Union to produce required proof for initiation of penal, labor and civil actions.
MJ, DPRF, DPF, MPF and MPT
Short-Term
34 - To strengthen the integration of police actions under the responsibility of the Union such as those of IBAMA, INSS, MTE, PRF and PF (combat to the environmental, social security, drugs traffic and forced labor crimes)
MJ, DPRF, DPF,MTE, MMA/IBAMA, MPS/INSS, MPT and MPF
Short-Term
34 – To implement a program for the awareness at PRF in order to identify situations of illegal transportation of workers.
DPRF and MJ Short-Term
35 - To define with PRF a program of inspection goals at locations of illegal transportation and/or incitement, requiring legalization of vehicles and forwarding them to MTE with the aim of legalizing the conditions of work contracting.
MJ, DPRF and MTE
Short-Term
36 - To adopt provisions against the incitement by the “gatos” and against illegal transportation of workers.
MJ, DPRF and DPF
Short-Term
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37 - The promote a public examination, already scheduled, for the filling of the existing vacant positions within the PF and PRF staff, for the positions of agent and chief of police, with empowerment for the eradication of forced labor.
DPF, DPRF, MJ, MPOG, Presidency of the Republic and National Congress
Short and Medium Terms
38 - To submit a Bill establishing the positions of Federal Police Agent and Chief of Police for the implementation of the actions established in the present document and also for later appointment through a public examination.
DPF, MJ, MPOG, Presidency of the Republic and National Congress
Medium Term
39 - To strengthen, within the ambit of the Federal Police Academy, the modules for instruction and capacity of the Federal Police Agents and Chiefs of Police in the performance as judiciary police in the combat of forms of slavery, with focus on human rights.
DPF, DPRF, MJ and SEDH
Short-Term
40 - To make effective the performance of the Federal Police team specialized in forced labor, according to the provisions of an Ordinance.
DPF and MJ
Short-Term
41 - To request the inclusion of the actions for combating forced labor into the National Plan for Public Safety.
MJ and SEDH
Short-Term
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04 Improvement of the Administrative Structure
of the Federal Attorney General’s Office and of the Public Labor Prosecutor’s Office
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04 Description of Proposal Responsible Entities Term 42 - To acquire the adequate and capable means of transportation and communication in order to expedite denounciations.
Presidency of the Republic, Federal Revenue Service, MPOG, MPT and MPF
Short-Term
43 - To strengthen the physical and staff structure of the Office of the Attorney General at the Municipalities and the PRTs of Pará, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Maranhão and of the sub-headquarters of the 10th Region in Tocantins.
MPT, MPF, Presidency of the Republic and the National Congress
Short-Term
44 - To guarantee budget and financial funds to cover per diem and travel expenses of the Labor Attorneys, Federal Attorneys and their respective assistants, in order to enable the participation of the MPT and the MPF in all inspection diligences, with the purpose of expediting the procedures and adoption of required administrative and judicial steps.
Presidency of the Republic, national Congress, MPF, MPT and MPOG
Short-Term
45 - To concretize within the MPF, through the definition by the Superior Council of the MFP, of the filling of the existing vacant positions, and also to effect the permanency of the Federal Attorneys at the places of incidence and occurrence of Forced Labor such as Marabá, by preventing their relocation.
MPF an National Congress
Immediate
46 - To establish General Attorney Offices in the municipalities of São Felix do Xingu, Xingüara, Conceição do Araguaia and Redenção, in the state of Pará.
MPF an National Congress
Medium Term
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47 - To establish public offices (sub headquarters) of the MPT at Acre, Amapá and Roraima
MPT, MPOG, Presidency of the Republic and National Congress
Short-Term
48 - To effect within MPT, by means of the approval of Bill number 6039/2002, the establishment of 300 positions of Labor Attorney and 100 public offices.
Presidency of the Republic, National Congress, MPT and SEDH
Short-Term
49 - To approve Bill number 6038/2001, which establishes several effective positions such as Technical and Administrative Support at MPU.
Presidency of the Republic, National Congress, MPF, MPT and SEDH
Short-Term
50 - To include forced labor in the curricula of ESMPU, with the objective of specialization of Attorneys in the subject.
ESMPU
Short-Term
51 - To execute agreements with partners for empowerment and joint performance.
MPF, MPT, MMA/IBAMA, MDA/INCRA and MPS/INSS
Short-Term
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05 Specific Actions for the Promotion
of Citizenship and for Combating Impunity
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05 Description of Proposal Responsible Entities Term 52 - To concretize the amicable solution proposed by the Brazilian Government to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights of OEA for the payment of indemnity to the victims of forced labor, José Pereira, from the Espírito Santo/PA farm.
Brazilian Government
Short-Term
53 - To implement a social reintegration policy in order to assure that the freed workers are not enslaved again, with specific actions, tending to facilitate their reintegration in the region of origin, whenever possible: health care, occupational education, jobs generation and agrarian income and reform.
Presidency of the Republic, MTE, MJ, SEDH, Extraordinary Ministry of Food Safety and Hunger Combat, MDA/INCRA, MS, National Health Council, Economic and Social Development Council, State and Municipal Governments, Autonomous Social Services, MEC and the Civil Society.
Short-Term
54 - To assure the issuance of basic civil documentation as the first stage of the reintegration policy. The civil registries include: Birth Certificate, identity Card, Work Booklet, Taxpayers ID card, Citizen s Card to all freed people.
Presidency of the Republic, SEDH, Extraordinary Ministry of Food Safety and Hunger Combat, MJ, MAPS and MTE.
Short-Term
55 - To provide the victims with unemployment insurance and temporary social benefits.
MTE and MPS
Short-Term
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56 - To identify governmental programs and to channel such programs to the municipalities recognized as focus of incitement of forced labor.
SEDH, Economic and Social Development Council, Extraordinary Ministry of Food Safety and MEC
Short and MediumTerms
57 - To strengthen PROVITA, with the objective of protection of witnesses and victims from forced and slave labor.
Presidency of the Republic, National Congress and SEDH
Medium Term
58 - To implement an empowerment program for affected workers, fulfilling the needs of targeted clients.
MTE, MEC and Autonomous Social Services
Medium Term
59 - To assure legal assistance to workers through the Public Defenders Offices and other institutions which may provide this assistance, such as the Universities, Higher Education Institutions, OAB and model offices, among others.
MJ, SEDH, State and Municipal Governments, OAB, RENAP, CPT, Universities, MEC/SESU and other entities in the society
Medium Term
60 - To approve Bill number 5756/2001 and establish 183 Federal Courts with the objective of strengthening and to accelerating Federal Justice.
SEDH, Presidency of the Republic, National Congress and AJUFE
Short-Term
61 - To install Public Defenders Offices of the Union and States at municipalities in Pará, Maranhão and Mato Grosso.
SEDH, DPU and the Governments of the states of Pará, Maranhão and Mato Grosso.
Medium Term
62 - To implant the Itinerant Labor Justice to serve the interior of the States of Pará, Mato Grosso and Maranhão.
TST and TRTs
Short-Term
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63 - To install Labor Justice Courts in the municipalities of São Félix do Xingu, Xingüara and Redenção, in the State of Pará.
MPOG, Presidency of the Republic, National Congress, TST and SEDH
Short-Term
64 - To support, articulate and systematize the performance of the MPT and the Labor Justice in the filling of collective suits with a request of indemnity for pain and suffering (collective and individual) with the recognition of legitimacy by the MPT for such performance and dissuasive financial convictions.
SEDH, MTE, MPT, TRTs, TST, STF, ANAMATRA and ANPT
Short-Term
65 - To approve Bill number 3384/2000 which proposes the establishment of Labor Courts.
SEDH, Presidency of the Republic, National Congress and TST.
Short-Term
66 - To implement an itinerant performance by the Regional Labor Station in southern Pará, such as the “DRT Vai até Você” (DRT Reaches You) program in Bahia and the “Ministério do Trabalho na Estrada” (Ministry of Employment on the Road) in Minas Gerais.
MTE Short-Term
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06 Specific Actions for Awareness,
Empowerment and Sensitivity
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06 Description of Proposal Responsible Entities Term 67 - To establish a national campaign for awareness, sensibility and empowerment for the eradication of forced labor
Presidency of the Republic, SEDH, MTE, MJ, MPF, MPT, CPT, AJUFE, ANAMATRA, OAB, CUT, CONTAG, CNA, MMA/IBAMA, MDA/INCRA, Autonomous Social Services and ILO
Short-Term
68 - To stimulate production, reproduction and identification of the basic literature, doctrine and normative multidisciplinary works on slave labor, such as reference literature for the empowerment of partner institutions.
MPF, MPT, Labour Justice and Federal Justice, MTE, SEDH, MJ, OAB, AJUFE, ANAMATRA and Universities
Short and Medium Terms
69 - To facilitate and stimulate the publication, in specialized magazines and electronic media, of materials related to the subject.
MPT, MPF, OAB, AJUFE and ANAMATRA
Short-Term
70 – To propagate the issue locally and regionally through newspapers, television, radio, internet, magazines and any other mean of communication.
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71 To inform workers through local, regional and national media, on their rights and the risks of slavery, through the local, regional and national media.
Presidency of the Republic, Social Communication Secretariat, Social Communication Advisories at the partner entities, DPRF, MTE, MJ, MPF, MPT, DPF, Judiciary Branch, MPS/INSS, CPT, CONTAG, CNA, MMA/IBAMA, MDA/INCRA, Radiobrás, Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, AJUFE, ANAMATRA and the Organized Civil Society
Short-Term
72 - To establish a search and localize service of rural workers missing in the main affected areas of slave labor.
Presidency of the Republic, Social Communication Secretariat, Social Communication Advisories of the partner entities, DPRF, MTE, MJ, MPF, MPT, DPF, Judiciary Branch, INSS, MPS, CPT, CONTAG, CNA, IBAMA, INCRA, Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, AJUFE, ANAMATRA and the Organized Civil Society
Short-Term
73 - To promote awareness and empowerment of all agents involved in the eradication of forced labor.
MTE, DPF, DPRF, Unions, ESMPU, MPF, MPT, AJUFE, ANAMATRA and ILO
Medium Term
74 - To include the social rights theme in the national curricular parameters.
MEC and SEDH
Medium Term
75 - To include in the National Campaigns for Awareness, Empowerment and Sensibility of Forced Labor, the Escola do Futuro Trabalhador (School for the Worker of the Future) Program.
MTE
Medium Term
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CHANGES IN THE LEGISLATION
Proposal 1 Responsible entity: Presidency of the Republic Deadline for Execution: Short-Term
Bill It gives new wording to articles 1 and 8 of Law number 8072, of July 25, 1990, making provisions on heinous crimes, pursuant to art. 5 , item XLII of the Federal Constitution, and addresses other matters THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC. I make it known that the Congress decrees and I sign the following Law: Art. 1 Art. 1 of Law No. 8072, of July 25, 1990, shall now enter into effect with the addition of items VIII and IX, with the following wording: “VIII - reduction to the condition similar to that of a slave (art. 149); IX - incitement of movement of workers from a place to another within the national territory (art. 207 and 1st and 2nd paragraphs); Art. 2 The first paragraph is inserted in art. 8 of Law number 8072, of July 25, 1990, and is renumbered, which shall read as follows: “First paragraph. The penalty doubled if the gang or band is carrying guns. Second paragraph. The participant and the associate who denounces the gang or band to the authority, thus enabling its dismantling, shall have his/her penalty reduced by one to two thirds. “ Art. 3 Articles 149 and 207 of the Penal Code shall have the following wording: “Art. 149 - Penalty incarceration from four to eighth years, plus a fine.” “Art. 207 - ….. Penalty incarceration from four to eight years, plus a fine.” Art. 5 The present law shall enter into force on the date of its publication. Art. 6 - Any provision in contrary shall be revoked.
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Proposal 2 Responsible entity: Presidency of the Republic Deadline for execution: Short-Term Bill PROVISIONAL REMEDY OR BILL It gives new wording to Law number 5889, of June 8, 1973, which provides for the regulating norms of the rural worker, changing fourth paragraph of Art. 18, and addresses other matters THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, pursuant to powers granted to him by art. 62 of the Constitution, adopts the following Provisional Remedy, with force of law: Or THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC. I make it known that the National Congress decrees and I sign the following Law: Art. 1 Art. 18 of Law number 5889, of June 8, 1973, shall enter into effect with the following changes: “Art. 18 - …. First paragraph: …. Second paragraph: …. Third paragraph: ….. Fourth paragraph. A fine in the amount of two thousand and five hundred Reais (R$2,500.00), per worker, without prejudice to the other pertinent penalties, the rural employer who, directly or indirectly: I - Reduces someone to a condition similar to that of a slave. a) through mistake, fraudulent action, simulation, coercion or fraud, trick or stratagem, with the objective of subtracting him/her the free manifestation of will as regards the effective work conditions proposed to him/her; or b) through threat, violence or deprivation of the individual or social rights or of any other means which make it difficult for the individual to get free of the situation in which he/she is; or c) shall not assure the conditions for his/her return to the place of origin; or d) by selling to his employees, goods or services not complying with third paragraph of art. 462 of the CLT, and also coercing or inducing them to use his grocery store or services with the intent of obtaining profits or keeping them under debt; or
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e) by making discounts not predicted by law, not making the payment of labor debts within the legal period or holding documents, with the purpose of maintaining the worker on the place of execution of the services; or f) through the imputation of degrading maltreatments or suffering to the worker; or g) by linking the working contract, even an informal one, to the payment of a sum, directly or indirectly to the employer, through mistake, fraudulent action, simulation, coercion or fraud, trick or stratagem or lack of subsistence alternative; or h) through the imposition of painful or insalubrious working conditions, by denying them the minimum life, health and safety protection; or i) through the omission, dissimulation or denial of information about the location of means of access to the place where the worker is; or j) by restricting in any way the free relocation of the worker; or l) by maintaining surveillance over the worker with the use of violence or threat. II – to incite workers from a place to another within the national territory; III – to recruit workers outside the working place, through fraud or collection of any debt from the worker; Fifth paragraph. Upon the exhaustion of the administrative way, the sanctioned employer, in any of the previous paragraph hypothesis, shall not receive and will immediately lose, the right to fiscal or credit benefits or incentives granted by the government, directly or through financial agents. Sixth paragraph. The assumptions in fourth paragraph, also subject the offender to the effects of a direct rescission of the working contract, thus implying in the payment of rescission appropriations occurring on a fiscal procedure of the Ministry of Labor and Employment, under the penalty of payment of fines provided for in the eight paragraph of art. 477 of CLT. Seventh paragraph. The fines established in the fourth paragraph shall be applied by the Regional Labor Delegate who shall forward, within ten (10) days from its receipt, copies of the tax assessment notice and the inspection report to the Regional Labor Attorney’s Office and the Federal Attorney’s Office, under the penalty of responsibility. Eighth paragraph. In the event of contumacy, embarrassment, resistance to inspection, disrespect of the authority, use of stratagem or simulation with the purpose of breaching the law, or in the event of child labor or illegal or irregular adolescent labor, the fine shall be imputed in double, without prejudice to the pertinent penal sanction.”
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Art. 2. This law shall come into force on the date of its publication. Art. 3. Any provision in contrary shall be revoked.
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GLOSSARY
AJUFE –Association of the Federal Judges of Brazil ANAMATRA – National Association of Labor Court Judges ANPT - National Association of Labor Attorneys ANTT - National Land Transportation Agency BACEN – Central Bank of Brazil CLT – Consolidation of Labor Laws CNA - Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock CONATRAE – National Commission for the Eradication of Slave Labor CONTAG - Nacional Confederation of Agricultural Workers CPT – Pastoral Land Commission CUT – Workers Organization DPF – Federal Police Department DPRF – Department of the Federal Highway Police DPU - Public Defender Office DRTs/MTE – Regional Labor Offices / Ministry of Labor and Employment ESMPU – Higher School of the Federal Prosecution Office IBAMA - Brazilian Institute for the Environnent and Renewable Natural Resources ILO – International Labor Organization INSS – National Institute of Social Security
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MAPS – Ministry of Social Assistance and Promotion MDA/INCRA - Ministry of Agrarian Development / National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform MEC – Ministry of Education MEC/SESU – Ministry of Education/Secretariat of Higher Education MF – Ministry of Finance MF/SRF – Ministry of Finance / Federal Revenue Service MF/STN – Ministry of Finance/National Treasury Secretariat MJ - Ministry of Justice MMA/IBAMA - Ministry for the Environment/ Brazilian Institute for the Environnent and Renewable Natural Resources MPF - Federal Attorney General's Office MPF/PFDC - Federal Attorney General's Office / Federal Attorney for the Rights of Citizens MPOG - Budget and Administration Ministry MPS – Ministry of Social Security MPS/INSS – Ministry of Social Security / National Instituto of Social Security MPT - Public Labor Prosecutor's Office MPU – Federal Prosecution Office
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MS – Ministry of Health MTE – Ministry of Labor and Employment OAB – Brazilian Bar of Lawyers OEA – Organization of American States PF – Federal Police PNDH II - National Human Rights Program PRF – Federal Highway Police PROVITA – Federal Program for Assistance to Threaten Victims and Witnesses PRTs – Regional Labor Attorney’s Offices RENAP - National Network of Popular Attorneys SEDH – Special Secretariat of Human Rights SIPAM – Amazon Protection System SIT/MTE - Labor Inspection Secretariat / Ministry of Labor and Employment SRF – Federal Revenue Service STF –Supreme Federal Court TCU – Court of Accounts TRTs – Regional Labor Courts TST – Superior Court of Labor
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Special Commission of the Council for the Defense of the Rights of the Human Person
established by resolution number 05, of January 28, 2002
