The company will have to comply with six inspection measures and will have to pay BRL 600 thousand as collective moral damage, for having as cocoa suppliers rural producers who practiced child labor and slave-like labor.
The torture practice was perpetrated and disseminated for years by agents from a federal task force in a number of states in the North and Northeast.
National Secretariat for Drug Policies brought together a number of experts in Brasília and focused on “people-oriented policies” to ensure access to services and rights for people dealing with substance abuse and as well as for their families and communities.
A number of human rights violations were listed at the meeting on the return of the National System to Prevent and Combat Torture, held by the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship in Brasília on Friday.
A recent report lists threats, physical aggression, murder, assault, sexual harassment, slander, injury, defamation, racist and homophobic attacks, institutional and judicial violence, and suicide. In four years, 169 advocates were killed—three every month.
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