Investigation reveals slave labor conditions in Brazil’s timber industry

Mongabay
Mar 13, 2017, 4:26 pm189 pts
This story is the first in a four-part series on slave labor practices at logging camps in Pará, Brazil, produced by Repórter Brasil; their Portuguese version of this story can be found here. Click the following links to access the second, third, and fourth parts in English on Mongabay. The dictionary…

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