The challenges to face in Forced labor: big brands are involved in commercially lucrative slavery relations.
SPEAK Network Brazil launches a campaign against forced labor in São Paulo.
Contemporary slavery is a serious problem. One of the difficulties that governments and civil society organizations face to overcome it is the accepted idea that slavery was totally abolished during the abolitionists struggles of the 19thcentury. Formally, it was – thanks to the efforts of many Christians and churches around the world. But one of its main characteristics remained: the loss of liberty. In many countries, poor people are in precarious labor relations and fake-contracts, that lead them to enormous debts, and to the lost of liberty.
