Brazil to Use Drones to Fight Slave Labor
Brazil to Use Drones to Fight Slave Labor
Published 28 July 2015 (9 hours 39 minutes ago)
The drones will aid government inspectors in their investigations into companies that use slave labor in the country.
The Brazilian government will start using drones to monitor and investigate slave labor in rural areas in the country, a Labor Ministry official said Tuesday.
"Drones don't substitute the inspector's physical presence, but they will be useful out in the country, in the case of farms that are hard to reach by road, for example," Bruno Barcia Lopes, coordinator of Rural Supervision at Rio de Janeiro’s Labor Secretariat, told Reuters.
Starting next month, inspectors who investigate companies that hire slave labor will start using six drones equipped with high-resolution cameras to shoot videos and take photos of construction sites in the state of Rio de Janeiro. It will then roll out in other states around the country.
This comes in a time when the government is trying to fight off attempts by companies to undermine its crackdown on slave labor.
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