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Olympic Games building firm, cult added to Brazil's slavery 'dirty list'
by Fabio Teixeira | @ffctt | Reuters
Friday, 3 April 2020 21:26 GMT
Firms on the labour abuse 'dirty list' are blocked from getting loans and face restrictions on sales
By Fabio Teixeira
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A company that helped build Rio de Janeiro's Olympic village for the 2016 Games and a religious group that enslaved hundreds of people were named on Friday to Brazil's "dirty list," one of the country's most powerful anti-slavery tools.
The two were among 41 employers added to the roster of blacklisted companies and organizations to be blocked from getting state loans and face restrictions on sales.
. . .
Brasil Global de Serviços, one of many firms subcontracted to develop a residential complex for athletes at Rio's Olympic Games, was found to have submitted 10 workers to degrading conditions in 2015.
The workers from poor states in Brazil's northeast were promised room and board but kept in lodgings with no running water or working bathrooms and were made to pay rent, food and transportation, said the inspection report.
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https://news.trust.org/item/20200403204800-w4hx5/
