Combating trafficking in persons in Brazil October 2005 - September 2008 - Brazil’s sheer size, with 60 per cent of South America’s landmass, its level of poverty and social inequality –
concomitant with the need to enhance the effectiveness of prosecuting trafficking in persons and sexual
exploitation perpetrators – makes addressing trafficking in persons all the more difficult.
Forced labour, discrimination and poverty reduction among indigenous peoples in Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay March 2006 - September 2008 - Recent ILO research indicates that forced labour affects at least 1.3 million people in Latin America. In-depth field research in the rural areas of Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru, has confirmed earlier perceptions that indigenous people are particularly vulnerable to a form of forced labour called debt bondage.
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