Rise in modern slavery complaints doesn't translate to more rescues in Brazil
Brazil received considerably more complaints of slave-like working conditions in 2019 than 2018. But officials reported on Tuesday that the number of people actually found to be working in such conditions dropped dramatically, raising serious concerns about the government’s ability to fight modern slavery. According to the Labor Inspection Secretariat, the number of workers discovered by labor inspectors in slave-like conditions fell almost 40% from