Editing Human rights in Brazil (section)

==Slave labor and labor exploitation==
{{Main|Slavery in Brazil|Social apartheid in Brazil}}
[[File:Alberto Henschel - Homem na liteira, Bahia.jpg|thumb|right|African slaves carrying a White Brazilian man in [[Salvador, Bahia|Salvador]], 1869.]]
[[File:Trabalho.JPG|thumb|right|Barley slavery in a sugar plantation in the country.]]
Slavery is illegal in Brazil.<ref name="Kersten">{{cite web|title=A Constituição do Brasil e os Direitos Humanos|url=http://www.ambito-juridico.com.br/site/index.php?n_link=artigos_leitura_pdf&artigo_id=339|access-date=July 11, 2017|language=pt-br|first=Ignácio Mendez|last=Kersten|archive-date=February 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215051142/http://www.ambito-juridico.com.br/site/index.php?n_link=artigos_leitura_pdf&artigo_id=339|url-status=dead}}</ref> Slavery and labor situations like depression era company towns still exist in remote areas in Brazil like the Amazon (a fictional portrayal of such a town occurs in ''[[The Rundown]]''). "Debt slavery" (where workers are forced to work to pay an ever-increasing debt) still exists in some rural areas, though it is illegal and the government actively fights against it.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6266712.stm |title=BBC news, major raid in slave farm |publisher=BBC News |date=July 3, 2007 |access-date=October 21, 2010}}</ref> The "debt slavery" is particularly worrying in large [[sugar cane]] farms, since sugar cane is a raw material for [[Ethanol fuel in Brazil|ethanol]], a product that the Brazilian government is currently actively encouraging the production and research of.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

In 2014, Brazil is still classified in a [[United States Department of Labor|U.S. Department of Labor]] report as one of the 74 countries that still employ children and slave laborers within the informal working sector. A ''[[List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor]]'' issued within the report shows 16 products including [[cotton]], cashews, [[pineapple]]s, rice and [[sugarcane]]<ref>[http://www.dol.gov/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-goods/ List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor]</ref> corresponding to the country of Brazil.

Human rights abuse isn't limited to just the local population but to foreign domestic workers as well. In 2017, a [[Philippines]] national was found in conditions of [[Modern slavery]] working for a Brazilian family.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-41857444|title=The housemaid's tale: 'I ate dog food to survive'|last=Bachega|first=Hugo|date=2017-12-11|work=BBC News|access-date=2017-12-11|language=en-GB}}</ref>