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April 2010
Moment of relaxation in the water.
Peru 2010.
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April 2010
Young boy working in a coal mine in Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young boy cleaning cars. La Paz (Alto), Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Female sex worker. La Paz (Alto), Bolivie.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Female sex worker. La Paz (Alto), Bolivie.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Child mechanic. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Child mechanic. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Child mechanic. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Cobbler in Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young boy working in a coal mine. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young worker in a coal mine. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young boy working in a coal mine. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young girl from CEPROMIN Centre of Mining Promotion. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young girls from CEPROMIN Centre of Mining Promotion. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young girl from CEPROMIN Centre of Mining Promotion. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Man working in a coal mine in Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young boy from CEPROMIN Centre of Mining Promotion. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Man carrying bricks in a brickyard in La Paz (Alto), Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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2007
Flower vendor in the street. Ecuador.
Ecuador 2007.
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2007
Flower vendor in the street. Ecuador.
Ecuador 2007.
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November 2003
Some forced labourers think that the situation is not that bad; as they say, at least they have a daily meal. Thanks to the joint efforts by the ILO Declaration project to combat forced labour and the Brazilian government, awareness is being raised as an important means of prevention. Piaui, Brazil.
Brazil 2003.
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November 2003
A freed forced labourer. He returned to his family only to realize that they had been starving because he was unable to send money back to them. Thanks to the joint efforts by the ILO Declaration project to combat forced labour and the Brazilian government, awareness is being raised as an important means of prevention.
Brazil 2003.
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November 2003
A former forced labourer shows the scars he still bears from the time he lived as a slave in Brazil. Thanks to the joint efforts by the ILO Declaration project to combat forced labour and the Brazilian government, awareness is being raised as an important means of prevention.
Brazil 2003.
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2000
Street musicians, Havana.
Cuba 2000.
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2000
Since 1959, "School for all" has been a government priority.
Cuba 2000.
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Cattle ranch, Pará. Two generation of slave workers. Thousands of slave workers were deceived during their recruitment. They face excessive arduous working conditions and have to work for many years in order to reimburse a debt which is manipulated. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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Antônia, Piauí. Antônia lives in Barras, a town accustomed to seeing its children leave in search of a job and a better life. Some return with little, others with even less and some don't return at all. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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Charcoal camp, Piauí. Seated workers, asking for better working conditions. Thousands of workers face excessively arduous workdays, often in slavery-like conditions. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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Charcoal camp, Piauí. Thousands of slave labourers work without any personal protective equipment, often under conditions of bonded labour. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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Logging Paraná. Forced labourers are often deceived at the recruitment stage. They face excessive arduous working conditions and have to work for many years in order to reimburse a debt which is manipulated. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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Cattle ranch, Pará. Slave labour is rooted in situations of extreme vulnerability and poverty amongst rural workers. Thanks to the joint efforts by the ILO project to combat forced labour and the Brazilian government, awareness is being raised as an important means of prevention. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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Charcoal camp, Pará. Man enslaved in a charcoal camp. Thousands of slaves work in precarious and degrading conditions. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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Slave labourers being freed, Pará. Slave labourers being freed. His employer will be included in the "dirty list" published by the Ministry of Labour. Created in 2004, the list is a register and online database containing the details of individuals and legal entities caught by labour inspectors in the act of subjecting workers to slavery like conditions. The list is updated every semester and the name of the offenders remains on the list during two years. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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Sugarcane, Mato Grosso do Sul. Indigenous worker in a sugarcane camp. Thanks to the national commitment to improve labour standards in the sugarcane industry, a voluntary agreement between Government, industry and trade unions on minimum standards was launched in June 2009 by the Government. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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Charcoal camp, Pará. Slave labour often means also degrading conditions of work, exhaustingly long working day, maltreatment, abuse or violence. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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Charcoal camp, Mato Grosso does Sul. Slave labour is rooted in situations of extreme vulnerability and poverty amongst rural workers. Thanks to the joint efforts by the ILO project to combat forced labour and the Brazilian government, awareness is being raised as an important means of prevention. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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April 2010
Young boy from CEPROMIN Centre of Mining Promotion. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young girl from CEPROMIN Centre of Mining Promotion. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young girl from CEPROMIN Centre of Mining Promotion. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young boy working in a coal mine. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young boy working in a coal mine. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Portrait of an old woman on a mining site in Potosi.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Children from CEPROMIN Centre of Mining Promotion. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young girl from CEPROMIN Centre of Mining Promotion. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young worker in a coal mine. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young worker in a coal mine. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young street seller. Potosí, Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Shoe shine in the streets of La Paz (Alto), Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young street seller. La Paz (Alto), Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young street seller. La Paz (Alto), Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young street seller. La Paz (Alto), Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Child mechanic. La Paz (Alto), Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young boy, mechanic. La Paz (Alto), Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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April 2010
Young boy, mechanic. La Paz (Alto), Bolivia.
Bolivia 2010.
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2007
Flower vendor in the street. Ecuador.
Ecuador 2007.
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2007
Female engineer working for on Cafe Soluble, SA. Managua, Nicaragua.
Bolivia 2007.
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1999
Huachipa, child collecting mud to make bricks
Peru 1999.
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1995
Young worker in the mechanical industry
Nicaragua 1995.
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Sidney, Mato Grosso do Sul. Sidney's dream was to become of football player. Instead of feeling the heat of the match, he suffered from the smoke-blackened hell of the charcoal chimneys. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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Sugarcane, São Paulo. Cane cutter exploited in a sugarcane camp. Like this old woman, a lot of slave workers have their skin destroyed by long exposure to the sun, weed killers, pesticides and other toxic chemicals. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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Female dairy farmer. Muruaya. Bolivia.
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Charcoal camp, north Minas Gerais. Charcoal is one of the sectors where forced labour cases have been observed in Brazil. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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Charcoal camp, Mato Grosso does Sul. Thousands of slave workers were deceived during their recruitment. They face excessive arduous working conditions and have to work for many years in order to reimburse a debt which is manipulated. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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Charcoal camp, north of Minas Gerais. Thousands of slave workers were deceived during their recruitment. They face excessive arduous working conditions and have to work for many years in order to reimburse a debt which is manipulated. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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Charoal camp, Mato Grosso do Sul. João has been enslaved all his life. Life hasn't made him rich in comfort but in calluses and broken promises, denying him a minimum of dignity. This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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João and Olga, Riba do Rio Pardo, Mato Grosso do Sul. João and Olga have been enslaved all their lives. "I must admit I don't dream any more. Some days I even fall asleep from sheer exhaustion. Don't hope anymore. Don't expect to get anything more out of life". This photo is from the book "retrato escravo".
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