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Poverty and Unemployment: Main Drivers of Human Trafficking in Brazil

A new UNODC report on human trafficking trends in Brazil highlights how socio-economic vulnerability and the lack of decent employment opportunities are leading people into the hands of criminal networks who exploit them for profit.

The publication, “National Report on Trafficking in Persons 2017-2020”, brings together knowledge and expertise from over 70 national and international experts who are active in the anti-human trafficking field and was produced in partnership with Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security.

“Over 90 percent of the professionals who provided us with information concluded that poverty and unemployment are the main reasons why people become victims of this crime, especially in cases of forced labour,” says Heloisa Greco, a human trafficking expert at UNODC, Brazil, who drafted the report.

Moise’s brutal murder exposed the precariousness faced by African refugees in Brazil. In addition to racism, they suffer from contempt for their origin. Many African immigrants have higher education and doctor’s degrees, are multilingual, but cannot find work and end up accepting any function, even carrying stones, in order to support their families.

The Brazilian usually denies the racism that covers our entire society. When he was a presidential candidate, someone asked the far-right and current president what he would do if one of his sons married a black woman. Bolsonaro, who says he is not a racist, gave an answer that clarifies what the majority of the people of the country he presides over thinks: “There is no risk, my children were well educated.”

There are cases, however, that expose racism more clearly than others: in August 2009, Januario Alves de Santana was detained in a Carrefour supermarket as he was preparing to leave in a new car. Five security employees brutally assaulted him, accusing him of stealing the car. Almost beaten to a pulp, the young man was rescued and taken to a hospital. And then it was learned that he had just bought the car in 72 monthly installments.

JahBwoy:
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mystery22:
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gypsey:
Why should he stop having kids? he is a millionaire, it's not as if he cannot afford to care for them financially, one of the mother of his 2 kids is also a millionaire. (Mariah Carey)

Eddy Murhpy has 11 kids, he is also a millionaire.

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MadeINchenzen2:
The most common types of mental illness are as follows:

anxiety disorders
mood disorders
schizophrenia disorders

Folayemi4444:
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As reported over the past five years, human traffickers exploit foreign, and to a lesser degree domestic, victims in Italy. Victims originate primarily from Nigeria and other African countries, China, Pakistan, Romania, Bulgaria, and include ethnic Roma. The pandemic exacerbates vulnerabilities for trafficking victims, including through increasing isolation of migrant and seasonal workers as well as sex trafficking victims, which complicates their identification by officials and NGOs. In 2020, sex traffickers left thousands of Nigerian women and children trafficking survivors destitute and without basic needs, such as food, during the national lockdowns;

The majority of sex trafficking victims are from Nigeria, although more recently their numbers have decreased. The government and civil society maintain that Nigerian women and unaccompanied children remain extremely vulnerable to trafficking because of the continued operation of organized Nigerian trafficking networks. Several Nigerian trafficking networks have expanded operations across Italy and reportedly receive protection from Italian crime syndicates. International organizations estimated up to 75 percent of the Nigerian women and unaccompanied children who arrived in 2018 were trafficking victims. Traffickers subject Nigerian women and girls to sex trafficking through debt-based coercion and voodoo rituals. Authorities report traffickers encourage Nigerian victims to claim asylum to obtain legal residency and facilitate their continued exploitation. Traffickers sometimes exploit migrant women in sex trafficking in and around migration centers. The Government of France reports receiving Nigerian victims who were exploited in trafficking while awaiting legal residency in Italy.

In 2020, the government released the results of a large-scale victim survey completed by 37 NGOs. It found that in 2019, 81 percent were victims of sex trafficking, 8 percent were victims of forced labor, 3 percent were victims of forced criminality, and 1 percent were victims of forced begging. One third of victims surveyed came from West Africa, mostly Nigeria

Nigerian females make up the majority of sex trafficking victims...NGOs report an increase in the number of Nigerian women in commercial s*x;

Authorities report traffickers encourage Nigerian victims to claim asylum to obtain legal residency and facilitate their continued exploitation.

Traffickers exploit children, primarily from Romania, West and North Africa, and the Middle East, in sex trafficking in France.

Labor traffickers exploit women and children in domestic servitude – the most frequent case being when families exploit relatives brought from Africa to work in their households; according to a 2020 report, domestic servitude makes up approximately 10 percent of all trafficking in France. Nigerian trafficking networks use migrant and drug trafficking routes through Niger, Libya, and Italy to transport women and girls to France, where they exploit them in trafficking and debt bondage.

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CaseSensitive:
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As reported over the past five years, human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Brazil, and traffickers exploit victims from Brazil abroad. Traffickers exploit women and children from Brazil and from other South American countries, especially Paraguay, in sex trafficking in Brazil. Gangs and organized criminal groups have subjected women and girls to sex trafficking in the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina. Traffickers also exploit Brazilian women in sex trafficking abroad, especially in Western Europe and China. Traffickers lure Brazilian women abroad with false promises to exploit them in sex trafficking; traffickers have feigned offers of successful music careers to entice Brazilian women to travel to South Korea, where they are forced into commercial sex. Traffickers have exploited Brazilian men... in sex trafficking in Spain and Italy.

Traffickers exploit children in sex trafficking along Brazil’s highways, including BR-386, BR-116, and BR-285. Child sex tourism remains a problem, particularly in resort and coastal areas

Migrants and people living near any of Brazil’s border areas are vulnerable to trafficking.

Many identified trafficking victims are Afro-Brazilian or of African descent. Traffickers exploit Brazilian men—notably Afro-Brazilian men—and, to a lesser extent, women and children, in situations that could amount to labor trafficking in both rural areas

In 2018, the Cuban government ended its medical missions to Brazil after Brazilian authorities raised significant concerns of exploitation and forced labor associated with these missions. Cuban medical professionals who participated in medical missions in Brazil may have been exploited and forced to work by the Cuban government.