NOVEMBER 30TH AND DECEMBER 1ST, 2003, IN AÇAILÂNDIA - MA

I Inter-participatory Conference on Slave Labor and Over-Exploitation in Farms and Charcoal Production

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25, 26 e 27 de agosto - August 25, 26 and 27 2003 - Açailândia - MA

I State Journey of Debates about Forced Labour in Maranhão

APRIL 1ST, 2003, IN RIO DE JANEIRO - RJ

15th Chico Mendes Medal of Resistance

On April 1st, 2003, the coordinators of the Group for the Eradication of Forced Labor - GERTRAF: Claudia Márcia Ribeiro Brito, Marinalva Dantas and Valderez Maria Monte Rodrigues, will receive the 15th CHICO MENDES MEDAL OF RESISTANCE , from the Group Tortura Nunca Mais (Torture Never Again), from RJ, at the João Theotônio Theater at Candido Mendes University, in Rio de Janeiro, at 6 pm

The three Inspection Auditors from the Mobile Group of the Secretariat for Labor Inspection from the Ministry of Labor have coordinated several inspection operations at farms denunciated for slave labor practices in the Amazon region, with courage, dedication and amazing competence and have freed thousands of enslaved laborers

MARCH 17TH TO 22ND, 2003, IN SALVADOR - BA

Extension Course on Slave Labor

The course is organized by the Science Technology College (Faculdade de Tecnologia em Ciências - FTC) and by the International Labor Organization - ILO.
For additional information, please contact ILO through telephone (61) 426-0100 or (61) 426-0115, or FTC through the phones stated on the program.

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25.01.2003

World Social Forum 2003

Program

Opening Round Table - 14h30

Brother Betto: Slaves of Hunger
Artistic Presentation: Poetry by a Slave Laborer (CDVDH)
Presentation of the Winning Report on Slave Labor, by journalist Marcelo Canelas - Rede Globo

Round Table: Hand in Hand Against Slavery - 15h15

1st Act: WHO IS THE SLAVE?
Coordinator: Maria Eliane Menezes de Farias - PFDC
· Dom Tomáz Balduíno - CPT
· Marinalva Cardoso Dantas - Mobile Inspection Group, SINAIT
· Loris Rocha Pereira Júnior - MPT
· Ricciotti Piana Filho - Mobile Inspection Group, SINAIT
· · Representatives from ANAMATRA/ANPT

2nd Act: WHO ENSLAVES?
Coordinator: Rosa Maria Campos Jorge - SINAIT
· Roberto de Figueiredo Caldas - OAB, ABRAT
· Flávio Dino de C. e Costa - AJUFE
· Raquel Elias Ferreira Dodge - PFDC, ESMPU, FPJ, ANPR, ESMP/RS
· Representatives from ANAMATRA/ANPT
· Brother Henri Burin des Roziers - CPT/RENAP

3rd Act: WHAT FREES?
Coordinator: Robinson Neves Filho - OAB / DF
· Valderez Maria Monte Rodrigues - Mobile Inspection Group, SINAIT
· Patricia Audi - ILO
· Orlando Fantazzini Neto - CDH/CD
· Brother Xavier Plassat - CPT/CJP-OP
· Representative from Anti-Slavery lnternational

Debates
Presentation of the book Vidas Roubadas/Trapped by Binka Le Breton
Photographic exhibit about slave labor: João Ripper

12.12.2002

PUBLIC HEARING ON "FORCED LABOR CONTROL"

The 5th Region's Regional Labor Attorney will promote a Public Hearing about the topic 'Fighting Forced Labor', in the municipality of Bom Jesus da Lapa-BA, on December 12th. The event will be attended by representatives from the Regional Labor Inspection, the Federal Police, INCRA and IBAMA, as well as from non-governmental organizations, such as the Land Pastoral Commission - CPT.

The public hearing has become necessary, considering the denunciation forwarded by the Federal Police that there is slave labor in charcoal producing units in the Bom Jesus da Lapa region. According to information provided by the 5th Region's Regional Labor Attorney - PRT, the laborers that have been found were recruited in Minas Gerais State and taken there for working in deforestation and charcoal production, part of which is exported to Italy. Rural property owners and entrepreneurs from the steel industry, who buy charcoal, have been invited to participate in the hearing. The event will be directed by the Labor Attorney of the 5th Region, Dr. Luís Telles

The Regional Labor Court, the Attorney General, the Regional Labor Police Station and the Regional Department of Justice of Labor will hold the seminar Slave and Semi-Slave Labor in Maranhãoon next December 10th, the Human Rights Universal Declaration Day. The seminar is supported by the International Labor Organization. Registration free of charge.

The objective of the organizing bodies is to establish a space for discussion for governmental and non-governmental organizations engaged in the fight for the eradication of slave and semi-slave labor in Maranhão. Therefore, the seminar will act as a space for the exchange between the organizations and, at the end of the event, a Permanent Forum for the Eradication and Fight Against Slave and Semi-slave Labor in Maranhão shall be established.

The president of the Labor Court of Appeals, Minister Francisco Fausto, and the president of Palmares Foundation, Carlos Moura, will be attending the event. The coordinator of the Special Group for Mobile Inspection of the Ministry of Labor, Cláudia Márcia Ribeiro Brito, and the deputy Labor Attorney General, Terezinha Matilde Licks, also have confirmed their participation.

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for additional information:

ASSESSORIA DE COMUNICAÇÃO DO TRT-MA
ascom@trt16.gov.br
218-93 07 / 218-9443

ASSESSORIA DECOMUNICAÇÃO DO MINISTÉRIO PÚBLICO ESTADUAL ascom@pgj.ma.gov.br ou 219-1671

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NOVEMBER 29TH TO DECEMBER 1ST, 2002

1st Inter-participatory Conference on Slave Labor and Over-Exploitation in Farms and Charcoal Production

The Non-governmental Organization "Center for the Defense of Life and of Human Rights Açailândia", jointly with Forum Carajás and EKOS is organizing a conference on slave labor and the over-exploitation of labor. The objectives of the Conference are:

- to study and prepare, by means of Bills, alternative proposals for the eradication of slave labor at farms and of labor similar to slavery in the charcoal production sector, as well as to establish mechanisms for strengthening and turning effective the proposals/measures that already are under way;

- to study and produce social and economic alternatives that may respect sustainable development and enable measures for improving the quality of life of laborers at the charcoal producing units and that of laborers freed from the farms.
The Conference shall count with the participation of members from the Mobile Inspection Team from the Ministry of Labor, from the labor Department of Justice, from the Land Pastoral Commission - CPT and from the International Labor Organization, labor lawyers, among others.

Place: Açailândia - Maranhão
Information by e-mail: cdvdh@cksnet.com.br
or by phone: (99) 538-2383