A Global Pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. The 300 year is the most powerful nations on a screw rich and strong go on the profits of the slave trade over 12000000 men women and children with full simply transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south America Today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the 19th century it is a life that is thriving and it is bigger than ever. Throughout the 350 years of the Transatlantic Slave Trade more than a 3rd of the 12000000 slaves transported from africa were shipped to brazil. 123 years ago brazil became the last country in the americas. Polish slavery. 15 years ago brazil adopted an Innovative Program to eradicates modern slavery. Gets a day in one of the fastest rising global economies up to a quarter of a 1000000 men and women are enslaved in brazil. It can not but out to get that about is not in that thing but it. Seemed that a wall will mean so long for. Their news real knowledge you know but you. Wont you know program wont you know by you know you know. Scrabble set up by my bump in the. Even the brazilian rain forest im slavery piece mounts a raid on a suspected slave. Acting on a tip off the mobile Home Inspection team comes to a remote coffee wrong in the heart of one of the most lawless museums of brazil. And one of the biggest strongholds of modern slavery. And. You. Know most of the overflow been a juvenile so here they shuffle them. Sort of most of the little somebody was in a state of the province of. Is the region most of the cases were filed. It is a very dangerous region there has been recently 5 homicides. Involve regarding people who are fighting for the last. Even though mobile spare action units the have had some surprises in which they had some some shooting units the landowners and the units and you know my rule is very. Well. This is just a few. Days it was just was 1995 brazil adopted in the bits of laws to fight the problem of modern slavery. These define slavery in the wide ranging times. But we didnt. Talk oh theres a need. For slave labor its it can be. By the grading nations can be by force of label can be by bondage 0 so there is 3 ways and they can occur separately and its not enough that conditions that gives the whole condition of slave labor and all. The team discovers 15 men who they determine a being held in conditions of slavery each of these men will now be paid for their work and freed from the farm. In the past 15 years the mobile inspection teams have freed 14000 men and women from slavery. And when that stuff i. Think of the stuff ive since moved to lay this out. To me. They are the exposed tips of a massive iceberg. Nearly 2000 kilometers from brazils capital the state of pa is still plagued by slave. Here the fragile ecosystem of the amazon rain forest is rapidly being destroyed by illegal before state. And behind the deforestation one of the dirtiest and most degrading forms of slavery charcoal burner. Boys could exist anywhere give us the fullest if you know me. Quite to demodulate go out is go. Ask was. This smart i made. That i was cut off. You know april 2011 brazils slave busting squad raided a charcoal farm. Why uneasy about. Your ration street 11 state. Were traveling to just to meet 2 of those men and to find out how they came to be a slave. No. Potential new format shamble. New book. No. Doubt there was a man who do think that it was good when youre talking about him in the budget b. If. You think it that i bought up a month they would you. 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At least think about going to these are. Guys. Who can use a spare only elisa. To learn that they. Are swept up here that. Much of it about this club. For a year plus art is one of brazils leading Anti Slavery Campaign is his work has won him powerful enemies. Into need the generally dont be. Pushy be that to continue one. Stephen was. Interesting this time i didnt know the tremendous ground value. Maintained was mine is there more to it. Bizarre than. Our own communities. In the months since they were freed hype into lopez and jersey goes to still some source of her leopard. In or her one more thing about the dont follow game over. Look him or her 3rd game alabama for when youre off the top of the movement and theyre all. The best and gets what they need and they give us a sub police i think he was appointed to key been he said his eye once he can it. Set the bar that theyre not going to lug much stuff in the. High end joes they have reason to be worried. And this is going to push. Some dont spittle. Was in there same struggle showing masses its. Charcoal is big business in brazils booming economy its the vital ingredient in an industry which turns 2000000000. 00 a year. Every year brazil exports around 10000000. 00 tonnes of pig on a key ingredient in the worldwide production of steel and charcoal is the 1st stage in that chain joke out of all this with anything my finale that is close even a king only propositional hospital but a fuzzy feel goes a yes i feel was a im not there yet but ima always the last 7 years ago investigators working for local n. G. O. S uncovered damning evidence of slavery in brazilian charcoal farms which was supplying the pig iron industry in response the government and industry established the National Pact to eradicate slave labor and its aim was to encourage companies to monitor their working conditions at all stages of production. Similar to a measly 15 on and Steel Companies set up the charcoal Citizens Institute to investigate and monitor industry supply chains but membership of the pact and the institute is voluntary and since 2004 many people and companies have simply ignored but. First for c. H. And for specific. Last. Years in prison. Mr lot more and also middle. To tell form accused law is no go. I would do careful to thought i wasnt getting this in lopping what i meant to pick up more than 2 on that a little sheer paudeen e be applauding jim you know you for. The results slavery continues to infect charcoal production and the entire supply chain that feeds. This is the Industrial Zone on the outskirts of modern where most of the pagan factories are located and according to the evidence that weve been given and the testimonies weve heard one of these companies is allegedly still involved in buying illegally produced charcoal made by slave labor. And president ial. Yes and that is a lie the needs as much americans. Produces 330000. 00 tons of pig on every year relying on charcoal to heat its furnace its. In the slave camps of the amazon its an open secret where some of that charcoal comes from 1st. And do you know to Work Companies or weigh the truck always go out i will call it if one if theyre my little book. In 2010 calls the products it gives with photographs with his then brazilian president lula to get the company has a lengthy record of using slaves tainted. In 2004 slave labor was discovered and cause he bought a chocolate fall in 2005 if you slaves to including women and children with fried from a tropical farm hes the only customer was. The same year called the pot was fined 1000000. 00 brazilian ralph more than half a 1000000. 00 for purchasing charcoal from a company hold the slaves. In 2009 and in direct supplier of charcoal to cause he was discovered using slave labor. Because he was expelled from the tropical systems can cheat because he did fail to pay the monday 3 subscriptions to fund the anti slavery. Was it but if i was a. Boy my eyes as he brzezinski dont be alone. When we went to cause he bought his head office in a state we were not well. But. Again i think. The moment it fell below it will be that it was if i lived in my room and it was not going to know just where in a public area here i did. Land and not allowed. It. Were from Al Jazeera Television and were wondering if theres anyone we could interview about because it was operation was and i watched it that much it got full. Causing directors refused to talk to us then i mean i you know im the company has subsequently ignored repeated requests to comment on allegations of slavery in its supply chain. So where does cause he bought a slave team to be gone go into these trains that take the pentagon away from bottle up to the coast from that theyre loaded on to ships taken to western industrialized countries like europe japan but its actually the United States. Most of course the pod is pagan is sold through just one u. S. Broca an Illinois Based Company called National Material trading we have obtained u. S. Customs documents 420092010 showing that an mc has regularly imported shipments of pig on from calls. Steel aluminum metals critic National Material trading has been a long time supplier of paid on to major American Steel producers they supply some of the most Famous Brands in the world. National material trading refused to respond to questions about its purchase of slave trade to take on from call jihad or to disclose the stupidity middlemen to whom they sell it. With multiple locations specializing in steel distribution and processing National Material is one of the largest Steel ServiceCenter Groups in the u. S. But in recent years ford calls general much as and will be one of the worlds biggest manufacturers of washing machines fridges and microwave ovens have a knowledge he steals which was made from an empty space on. Today for. And General Motors say that an empty seat is not one of their direct scale one supplies but that they couldnt comment on in direct or middlemen supply. For told us the pickguard situation has been taken very seriously by the Senior Management team of ford since 2006 when it was originally brought to our attention we have asked all our suppliers that might use pig produced using charcoal from questionable sources to verify their supply chain. Validation continues to be challenging given the number of supply chain between ford and the charcoal caps in brazil. And General Motors said General Motors has a strict 0 tolerance policy against the use of child labor abusive treatment of employees or corrupt Business Practices in the supply of goods and services to General Motors the companys contracts require that a supplier represents that neither it nor any of its subcontractors will utilize child slave prisoner or any other form of forced or involuntary labor we learned in 2006 that a direct supplier of General Motors may have been using materials purchased from an empty at that time we investigated immediately and took appropriate steps will pool promised the statements but did not provide one. In washington what was it but it was a but again it is a scheme will. It go to act 3 my school is soyuz the sequel pretty soon as this was going to be but it has a presence a part will need to kill us the money will see as. Phone calls on those. Yet as they shout in g g g. That. It was so enormous that plucky budget. And said im one of the coolest best so. Its going to be ads appear sourced so only bear. Who made the phone less than 0 and if you could talk to a family about to buy a car in the United States or japan or germany and they didnt realize that it was being produced in a Church Supply Chain that involved slave labor what would you say to a family. In public or planet. So who is really committed to stopping slave tainted charcoal contaminates in the global marketplace. The brazilian government prides itself on its commitment to enslave labor yes how effective is that commitment. The labor minister. Why do you think despite all these efforts that brazil has taken why is it so hard to eradicate this. Drug or supply. Will she while it is not the scruff looked at as you. Please by a larger study to put as you he has been to walk corseted skulduggery just say yes use volage for this job or. You know people we because of the fall to the. Dutch for suspicious but as you. Know scored ucas used not to put our did you flipped up on not to. Get us but a lot of your governments really have to come up with this resource to end slavery theyve promised to do so by passing laws that say we will not have slavery in our countries until. The right mixture of politicians and the public and thought leaders and Business Leaders and immediately as you name it understand it and get get get the big picture we can raise those resources. Ironically the key to building that understanding may lie in one of the most ubiquitous if least noticed by consumers tools of modern business the buck the one thing that i learned as a bit of a shock to me was the link that i personally had to modern slavery every day when i walked into my favorite store when i picked a product off the shelf there was a story behind the barcode theres a story behind that product the question is how would i now. David batstone founded the Antislavery Campaign group not to say a key part of its mission is to empower consumers with information so they can join the fight against slave labor in the Global Supply chain. So our team came up with 40 factors that go into the making of any product based on that we began to grade products and companies and using that material 1st we took that data and gave a grade a b. C. D. E. F. Like you would get new in school the result was an application for smartphones that enables consumers to check a product Slavery Index whenever wherever they go shopping the app is designed so you can scan a barcode on a store shelf the great comes up then you can say well. I wonder why they got an a or one away got an f. And you can click to see the score card you can see the 40 factors for transparency transparency in supply chains is essential for ensuring that slave labor is not being used to make products that end up in consumers homes but ultimately it is up to governments to enforce legislation and penalties if they dont then men like joes a and high will continue to be enslaved. Baltimore md all of. Them i think about dont think. Mark about them. As. To them but. In the next episode of slavery a 21st century evil women sold into bridal slavery in india and the difficult investigation to track down my traffickers. It starts in poor communities with the promise of a prosperous marriage. But countless young indian women find themselves g. Commodifying psalm and sold again. To toil by day. Only to be violated by night. Slavery a 21st century evil continues with bridal slaves amount to 0. 6 months. Theres. 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