The expert stated that “the sizes of the exploitation of slave work and sexual abuse of local native population by criminal organizations, despite existing laws and state programs aimed at protecting Aborenia inhabiting Amazon, are deeply worrying.
Sienata declared at a press conference convened at the end of his journey through the vast areas of the Amazon Forest that “Still – despite existing laws in Brazil to protect the indigenous people of the Amazon, there is a large -scale slave work“.
The UN envoy stated that “the facts that concern contemporary forms of slavery to which the native Amazon population, especially the traveling group of population, as well as refugees seeking shelter from the ruthless exploitation applied to them, are deeply worrying.
The UN expert conducted talks with representatives of the Brazilian government, non -governmental organizations and representatives of the native inhabitants of the country – slave victims in various states of Brazil.
According to the expert, the form of slave work is today in Brazil “closely related to economic activity leading to the destruction of the natural environment of the Virgin Forests of Amazon and other regions of the country.”
“In the Amazon region,” he states in his report, which is to be presented to the UN Human Rights Council – the use of the forced labor of its native inhabitants is an integral part of such, usually illegal activity, such as the felling of the Virgin Forest to prepare areas for cattle breeding, illegal extraction of valuable minerals and wood trafficking. “
These practices – states the report – not only cause “disproportionately great” desecration of the Amazon, but “They also cause havoc among the native inhabitants of the Quilombolos tribe and other Amazon peoples forced to leave their historical headquarters and territories and used in most cases for forced work beyond strength. “
It is – according to the expert – used, among others by the owners of legal and illegal sugar coffee and cane plantations, in illegal gold mines and when bringing out other wealth in these areas, as well as in the local hotel industry.
The UN expert devotes the entire chapter in his document “ruthless operation of the workforce of migrants and refugees in the Amazon areas who are not able to use the normal labor market employed without a contract for work in agriculture and illegal mines of valuable minerals.”
Sibularly summarizes its report by saying that “Brazil, despite the previous progress, should double her efforts to fight the phenomenon of trampling fundamental human rights and face the destruction of the Amazon ecosystem, one of the most important on our planet, called the lungs of the world. “
