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| 05SAOPAULO283 | 2005-03-11 10:25 | 2011-07-11 00:00 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Consulate Sao Paulo |
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 09 SAO PAULO 000283
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/BSC AND DRL
STATE PASS TO USAID
STATE FOR G, INL, DRL, PRM AND IWI
STATE FOR G/TIP
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF TIP
SUBJECT: THE TIP REPORT
REF: 03 STATE 27013
¶1. (U) This is version II of the Brazil TIP report,
incorporating answers to questions raised by version I, and
additional information. This report was a coordinated effort
between Sao Paulo and Embassy Brasilia, which supplied much
of the new information.
¶2. (SBU) Begin Summary: Brazil continues to be a source
country for internationally and domestically trafficked
women, children andQQJI7QGOB has manifested its will to
combat trafficking and to provide support for victims. In
addition, the Brazilian effort has improved with more
training for police, creation of state offices and with
prosecution of traffickers. Coordination between the various
levels of government continues to improve. Though the GOB
continues to be resource-strapped, it has devoted more
resources to this issue during the last year. The Mission
recommends that Brazil be designated Category II again. End
Summary.
¶3. (U) Mission point-of-contact for trafficking in persons
issues is Labor Officer Patrick Del Vecchio, Tel: 55-11-5186-
7256, Fax: 55-11-5186-7171; email: delvecchiopl@state.gov.
Mission backup is Human Rights Officer Bisola Ojikutu, Tel:
55-61-312-7300; email ojikutubx@state.gov.
¶4. (SBU) Information is keyed to question in paras 18-22
reftel:
Overview:
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¶A. Brazil is a country of origin for international
trafficking of adults and children for the sex industry.
Though the evidence is sketchy, the best estimate is that
roughly 70,000 Brazilians, the vast majority women, work in
the sex industry outside Brazil. The majority of these women
are probably trafficking victims. While some of these women
are under 18 and, accordingly, count as children for this
report, the vast majority are adults. Internal and external
trafficking of Brazilian men and women exists. Young women
and girls are usually trafficked overseas for prostitution
while young men and boys are trafficked internally as slave
laborers. In the sex trafficking industry, research suggests
that recruiting techniques vary based upon the state of
origin. Women who are recruited from states with an active
sex tourism industry, such as Ceara or Pernambuco, are
usually from the sex industry and are convinced to continue
working abroad. Women who are recruited in states without an
active sex tourism industry are sometimes tricked into
prostitution and do not have previous experience in the sex
industry. Recruiters sometimes convince women to work
overseas as dancers, male escorts, beauticians, maids, or
other service related positions to improve their lives. After
arriving at their destination, all travel and identification
documents are confiscated and the women or slave laborers are
forced to work.
In 2003 and 2004, the Special Secretariat for Human rights,
in conjunction with the University of Brasilia and UNICEF,
conducted a comprehensive study on TIP in Brazil, leading to
the creation of the "Inter-sectorial Matrix to Combat Sexual
Exploitation of Children and Adolescents" in January of this
year. The Matrix found that 932 municipalities (out of 5,563
municipalities) had an active commercial sexual exploitation
market and most commercial sexual exploitation took place in
the Northeast. This study will likely be used during the
creation of future GOB policies to combat sexual exploitation
and TIP. In 2003, the Reference Center on Children and
Adolescents (CECRIA), with the support of the Organization of
American States, USAID and DePaul University, published a
study on the trafficking of women, adolescents and children
for the purpose of sexual exploitation. The report focused,
however, on victim profiles, and the routes and methods used
by traffickers. Other sources came up with the estimate of
70,000 Brazilian prostitutes in Europe. The Brazilian
Federal Police, utilizing immigration records, estimated that
900 women a year leave Brazil to be sex workers in other
countries. Anecdotal evidence from television and newspaper
reporting seems to confirm that the vast majority of TIP
victims serve under conditions tantamount to slavery. NGO
sources report that black and brown women between the ages of
12-24 are more likely to be sex trafficking victims because
they are more likely to be less educated and poor. Young
brown and black males are more likely to be trafficked to the
interior as slave laborers for the same reasons.
¶B. Women are trafficked from all parts of Brazil. The
Brazilian government reports that trafficking routes from all
of Brazil's 27 states exist. CECRIA identified 241 routes
used for the trafficking of women, adolescents, and children.
Thirty-two routes go to Spain, where the majority of the
victims go. Eleven of the routes identified lead to the
Netherlands. The study also named France, Portugal,
Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay,
Japan, Israel, and Iraq as destinations for Brazilian
trafficking victims. Venezuela, Suriname, and Guyana are
identified as "way stations" for persons trafficked to Spain,
the Netherlands, and Germany. The report identified the
cities of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Belem, Forteleza,
Salvador, and Recife as exit points for persons trafficked to
Europe. The report identified Rio and Sao Paulo as exit
points for the United States. According to the federal
police in Goias, Goiania, Goias is also used as an exit point
for trafficking victims who transit through Mexico to reach
the U.S. Traffickers routed persons destined for Argentina,
Chile, and Paraguay through the city of Foz do Iguacu. Most
internally trafficked slave laborers originate from Maranho
and Piaui states. Para and Matto Grosso states receive the
highest number of internally trafficked slave laborers.
¶C. Authorities have detected no significant change in the
direction of trafficking during the last year. They believe,
however, that trafficking has increased during the last year.
¶D. The Ministry of Justice's Office of the Comprehensive
Program for the Prevention of and the Fight Against TIP, in
cooperation with UNDOC has begun a program to counter
trafficking and to develop a databank. The Ministry hopes to
include information concerning both solicitors and victims,
where victims are found, and how they are lured. The
databank also would gather information in one place from the
various federal agencies dealing with trafficking, such as
the Ministry of Justice (including the federal police), the
Ministry of Labor, and the Special Secretariat for Human
Rights. . The program, which will receive USG funding, will
begin in Ceara, Goias, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo states
and should be fully operational in 2005.
¶E. While Brazil generally is not a destination point for
trafficked victims, in Sao Paulo trafficking of Bolivians by
Koreans continues to be a problem. During 2004 the Sao Paulo
Civil Police's unit dedicated to dealing with trafficking and
prostitution-related crimes authorities found several cases
of Bolivians working in sweatshops in Sao Paulo. The
Bolivians included men, women, and children who had been
brought in, placed in rented houses and forced to work 14-16
hours a day producing garments for shops owned by Korean
immigrants in Sao Paulo. Reportedly, on occasion, Chinese
and Koreans have been trafficked into the country to work in
sweatshops as well.
¶F. Internationally trafficked sex workers tend to be
relatively unsophisticated brown and black women and girls
from the interior and Northeast of Brazil. Traffickers
usually lure victims through marriage proposals and are known
to promise victims lucrative pay as dancers, male escorts,
models (beauty contestant winners have been cited as common
targets), waitresses, nannies, maids, or other positions in
the service industry. Traditional organized crime syndicates
may be involved in some of this type of trafficking, but
according to local law enforcement sources, much of this type
of trafficking also takes place on a more "informal" basis by
owners of nightclubs and prostitution houses in destination
counties. According to media reports, these owners often
present the employment as an opportunity to be a male escort
in a five-star hotel, and present a rosy picture of the life
in Europe. Upon arrival, the women serve in virtual
indentured servitude in prostitution houses. Domestically
trafficked sex industry workers are kept restrained through
debt, isolation, threats of bodily injury, and other forms of
coercion.
Domestically trafficked rural workers and domestic servants
are often tricked into working in substandard conditions or
for illegally low pay in isolated areas. Often, debt is used
as a coercive tool to maintain control over the worker. In
some cases, force may be used to ensure that the victim does
not flee, but often the isolation of the wok site and the
distance from the worker's home serve as effective deterrents
to flight. Trafficking of rural workers occurs most commonly
in the North, Northeast, and Center-West of Brazil, although
cases have been reported in nearly every Brazilian state.
Labor recruiters generally recruit laborers from small
municipalities in the North and Northeast and transport them
long distances to large ranches and plantations in remote
areas in central Brazil.
¶G. The political will definitely exists to combat trafficking
in persons, beginning at the highest level of the GOB.
President Lula personally has engaged himself on the issue,
stressing publicly again and again that trafficking and the
resulting forced labor conditions are unacceptable in Brazil.
His most recent iteration came after the murder of a group of
labor inspectors in the State of Minas Gerais in 2004. The
Lula administration also announced a government-wide
initiative to combat sexual exploitation of minors. This
program will clearly help to combat internal TIP in Brazil.
In addition, the government continues to push a bill
providing for the expropriation of land where forced labor is
used. The Ministry of Labor and Employment (MLE) continues
to conduct very successful raids on worksites suspected.
While the government approved a National Plan to Eliminate
Forced Labor in 2004, establishing an inter-agency road map
to eradicating forced labor by 2007, the plan has not
translated into a vast infusion of resources for efforts.
The MLE's mobile inspection group continues with less funding
and equipment than it needs. The lack of resources has
seriously limited the number and quality of investigations
that the MLE conducts. Inspectors have been asked to pay
lodging and M&IE expenses while on official duty. Since the
GOB has not been able to finance MLE mobile inspection unit
travel, the federal police announced that they would no
longer accompany inspectors, thus making inspections less
secure. The Federal Police, a force of only 9,000 agents
that has the responsibilities of the FBI, DEA, Secret
Service, Federal Marshals and DHS in a country the size of
the continental United States is spread too thin. While
resources have increased, these agencies still need more
funding.
¶H. Governmental authorities do not facilitate or condone
trafficking activities. NGOs allege that individual
officials have been involved in prostitution rings,
particularly state uniformed and civil police. The
Congressional Investigations Committee on Sexual Exploitation
(CPMI) found that mayors, city councilmen, and other local
authorities were involved in sexual exploitation cases,
although not all involved human trafficking. Of the 832
accusations that the CPMI received, 543 were accepted and 289
were dismissed due to a lack of evidence. Senators and
representatives visited each of Brazil's 27 states for more
than one year to hold meetings with public authorities, civil
society representatives, offenders, and sexual exploitation
and TIP victims.
¶I. See above on resources. Corruption is not a significant
problem on this issue.
¶J. The Ministry of Justice is in the process of establishing
a database on trafficking that will cover many of these
issues. This is the first significant government effort to
monitor the effort to prevent trafficking.
¶K. Adult prostitution is not illegal, but soliciting or
engaging in sexual acts with a young woman under the age of
18 is a crime. The legal minimum age for prostitution is 18.
Under the current legal statute, it is not illegal to traffic
or solicit sex with a young male under the age of 18. Adult
women can engage in prostitution if she chooses to do so, but
the law forbids earning a profit from the prostitution of
others. Pimping and owning or managing prostitution houses
are illegal.
PREVENTION
¶A. The GOB has acknowledged that trafficking in persons is
both a national and international problem. President Lula
has addressed the problem on numerous occasions. In
addition, GOB officials have participated in conferences on
the problem, including one in Bogota, Colombia in November
2003 and one in Sao Paulo, organized by the US Consulate at
around the same time. In 2004, the GOB participated in an
anti-trafficking seminar sponsored by the Embassy of Sweden
and the US Embassy in Brasilia with participation from
Brazilian National Secretary of Justice Claudia Chagas, the
diplomatic community, and Brazilian law enforcement and
government officials.
¶B. GOB agencies involved in anti-TIP efforts include: the
Ministry of Justice (including the Federal Police), the
National Human Rights Secretariat (attached to the
presidency), the Ministry of Labor and Employment, the
Ministry of Tourism, and the Ministry of Social Development.
The criminal prosecutor's office at The Federal Public
Ministry is responsible for prosecuting sex traffickers. The
labor prosecutor's office at The Public Ministry of Labor is
responsible for prosecuting forced labor TIP cases. The
Federal Highway Police are responsible for checking documents
and monitoring movement along the nation's highways and
roads, although they rarely apprehend traffickers of rural
laborers. Special Children's Courts are responsible for
handling cases involving children and adolescents. These
special courts exist in each state.
¶C. Anti-TIP information campaigns have been conducted by the
National Human Rights Secretariat and the Ministry of
Tourism. Until recently, the campaign focused on sex
tourism. In early 2004 the government began a campaign aimed
at deterring international traffickers and sensitizing their
potential victims to the dangers. In addition, the Lula
administration has conducted a government-wide initiative to
combat the sexual exploitation of children. This initiative
has included an information campaign. Further, the Sentinela
program, a nationwide Ministry of Social Development project
that assists victims of sexual exploitation and TIP,
distributes information against sex tourism and underage
prostitution. A large number of local and international
NGOs, organizations, and groups work with local schools
throughout the country teaching children and adolescents
about the dangers of being trafficked.
During Carnival season, the Ministry of Tourism launched a
three-phase anti-sex TQ>|Gp:QmQloQradio ads. The
second phase, which occurred during Carnival, distributed
pamphlets, distributed pamphlets, T-shirts, hats, and other
informative material in coastal cities. The last phase
focused on educating employees in the tourism industry, such
as hotel and restaurant owners and employees, and taxi
drivers, about the dangers of sex tourism. Local authorities
in Rio de Janeiro launched campaigns against sex tourism and
arrested several persons involved in promoting prostitution
during the year.
In October, the Secretariat for Human Rights and the Ministry
of Justice launched a nationwide anti-trafficking in persons
publicity campaign in Goiania, Goias, to prevent the
trafficking of women for sexual exploitation abroad.
Approximately 60 percent of women trafficked abroad came from
Goias State. The program was co-sponsored by the U.N. Office
of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Government of Portugal.
Female passport recipients receive a brochure that states
"first they take your passport, then your freedom." The
campaign includes radio advertisements and large warning
signs in airports in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia,
Recife, Fortaleza, and Goiania. Police officers, judges, and
foreign consulates in the country received training under
this program.
In May, the Sao Paulo State Secretary of Justice inaugurated
the Sao Paulo Office for the Prevention of Trafficking in
Persons. This office conducted public education campaigns,
assisted victims of human trafficking and sexual
exploitation, and referred individual trafficking cases to
the federal police and state attorneys.
Labor organizations and NGOs continue to conduct campaigns.
The Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) distributes pamphlets to
rural workers in areas that have historically served as
targets for traffickers. The pamphlets warn rural workers
about the methods of traffickers and offer practical advice
to avoid this situation. A number of local unions instruct
laborers to register with them and the police before leaving
with a labor recruiter.
¶D. The GOB sponsors many other programs that are directed at
the social problems underlying TIP. The government has made
a major effort to consolidate and improve programs designed
to combat child labor. The Sentinela Program, instituted by
the GOB, and supported by USAID Brazil, to reduce sexual
exploitation of children and adolescents, now has more than
400 centers to assist victims of sexual abuse and
exploitation.
¶E. The GOB supports prevention programs as outlined above.
¶F. Particularly with the advent of the Lula administration,
the relationship between the government elements of civil
society on issues relating to trafficking in persons has
improved. Labor inspectors act usually in response to
allegations of trafficking from members of union, churches,
the media, and NGOs. The Executive Group to Reduce Forced
Labor (GERTRAF) continues to improve coordination between
public and private entities. The Ministry of Justice
coordinates closely with NGOs, as do the state-level offices
that have been established to combat trafficking.
¶G. The borders and coasts of Brazil are so extensive they
are not easily monitored. Brazil maintains immigration and
border control services (it is primarily a Federal Police
function with some help from the armed forces), but they are
thinly spread in many areas. Federal Police are now
monitoring the borders with an increased awareness of the
profile of trafficking victims. Border controls are not a
factor in domestic trafficking and Brazil is not a
destination for the internationally trafficked sex industry
or rural workers.
¶H. Coordination and cooperation between various agencies is
carried out by the Ministry of Justice, under the
Comprehensive Program for the Prevention of and Fight Against
TIP, and GERTRAF as outlined above, as well as the National
Plan Against Infant-Juvenile Sexual Violence and the Office
to Combat Transnational Crime (COCIT) at the Ministry of
Foreign Relations. The GOB does not have a task force to
fight corruption.
¶I. The GOB coordinates with and participates in
multinational working groups and in efforts to prevent,
monitor, and control trafficking.
The National Forum Against Rural Violence, which includes the
participation of various government agencies, NGOs, and
unions, is another mechanism of coordination and
communication on trafficking and forced labor. The National
Forum for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labor has
developed a national strategy to combat the worst forms of
child labor, including activities linked to trafficking in
children.
ILO: The ILO contributed to the CECRIA study published in
¶2003. The ILO with USDOL funding supported a child labor
survey by the Brazil's national statistics agency (IBGE)
giving the first comprehensive view of child labor in Brazil.
The study serves as a baseline for measuring the success of
government programs. In September 2004, the ILO launched the
Strengthening Strategies to Combat the Trafficking of Women,
Children, and Adolescents in Brazil program with the Ministry
of Justice. A number of NGOs, international organizations
(UN and UNODC), foreign Embassies (Spain, Portugal, and
U.S.), the Federal Police, and Ministries took part in the
seminar that launched the event.
UNDOC: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has a
project in partnership with the Ministry of Justice with
joint financial resources from the governments of Brazil and
Portugal. The project will focus on developing activities in
four areas: research, elaboration of a data bank, training
and awareness campaigns. The UNDOC launched a national
publicity campaign in conjunction with the Government of
Portugal and the Secretariat for Human Rights in the Ministry
of Justice (see Prevention, C).
¶J. The GOB has promulgated the Comprehensive Program for
Combating TIP and the National Council Against Infant-
Juvenile Violence Sexual Violence, outlined above. The
government has developed a National Plan Against the Sexual
Exploitation of Minors. The plan will involve the Ministries
of Justice, Social Assistance, Education Culture and Sports,
as well as the National Secretariats of Human Rights and
Women's Affairs, both of which are cabinet level agencies
attached to the presidency.
¶K. See responses above. In general, the National Secretary
for Justice in the Ministry of Justice develops anti-TIP
programs, although other ministries and agencies are engaged
as well.
Investigation and Prosecution of Traffickers
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¶A. The law prohibits the transport of persons for illicit
reasons within and outside the country. The law does not
specifically prohibit trafficking of men or the internal
trafficking of women, although Congress was considering
legislation to criminalize all forms of trafficking.
¶B. The Penal Code establishes a prison sentence of 3 to 8
years for transporting women in or out of the country for the
purposes of prostitution. The Statute on Children and
Adolescents requires the permission or presence of both
parents for children to leave the country; it also prohibits
children from leaving the country with a foreigner unless the
authorities grant prior approval.
¶C. Only rape against women is considered a crime and carries
a six to ten year prison sentence. All sex crimes charges
are dismissed if the victim marries the accused or a third
person.
On March 1, the Brazilian Senate approved three bills on
combating sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.
The proposed amendment defines photography or filming
children and adolescents under circumstances that compromise
their sexual integrity as a criminal felony. The proposal
merges the crimes of rape and violent indecent assault and
makes rape against women and men a crime. The bill revokes
the current statute that dismisses sex crimes charges if the
victim marries the accused or a third person and increases
penalties by 1/3 if the victim is younger than 18 years of
age. These changes have not been approved by Congress and
are not yet enforceable law.
¶D. In the area of forced labor there have been three
convictions for trafficking since 1995. During 2002 we are
aware of five convictions for trafficking, with 23 people
charge. Partial statistics for 2003 indicate one conviction
and jail sentence with four cases of trafficking prosecuted
in criminal court. At present, no one is serving a prison
sentence in Brazil for either domestic forced labor or
international trafficking. Numerous people were tried and
convicted in labor court in 2003, including a federal deputy.
Statistics have not changed significantly during the past few
years.
There have been two cases of convictions of traffickers for
international trafficking on women. One case in Goiania,
Goias in September, 2004, and another in Fortaleza in
December.
¶E. Domestic trafficking of agricultural workers is reportedly
carried out by labor "brokers," who act as middlemen between
laborers and landowners. Domestic and international
trafficking of sex industry workers is reportedly conducted
by traditional organized criminal groups and by more informal
efforts of owners of bars and establishments of prostitution.
¶F. The GOB actively investigates reports of trafficking,
although in many cases efforts are hampered by lack of
resources and ineffective state and federal cooperation
(though efforts are being made to improve this). The federal
police have conducted surveillance and undercover operations
with other countries to investigate and prosecute offenders.
Federal police have also been known to infiltrate sex tourism
rings although this rarely occurs due to a lack of personnel
and resources. Allegations of trafficking and forced labor
in rural areas are investigated primarily by the Ministry of
Labor and Employment's special mobile inspection unit. The
unit liberated 2,743 slave laborers in 2004. The government
uses active investigative techniques to the full extent
possible in trafficking cases.
The Federal Police are in the process of implementing special
training programs for TIP investigations and creating a
special team to target forced labor. In addition, the state
offices that have been created to combat trafficking have
trained special units to investigate trafficking cases.
¶G. The Ministry of Justice has trained more than 360 judges,
police, social workers and psychologists on how to recognize
and combat the crime of trafficking in persons. The Ministry
has organized an online course through the University of
Brasilia that will train 700 more officials and will begin in
March of 2005.
¶H. The GOB has signed treaties providing for legal
cooperation and assistance with 15 countries and similar
agreements are being negotiated with other countries. The
Federal Police cooperate with Interpol in international
trafficking cases. The Federal Police have worked with the
governments of Spain, Italy, Canada, and Portugal, and
Switzerland to combat trafficking and sex tourism. While the
actual number of cooperative international investigations on
trafficking is unknown, the federal police have worked with
foreign countries to conduct anti-trafficking investigations.
¶I. The GOB cooperates with foreign governments to extradite
non-citizens and has willingly done so. The GOB and the
Italian government conducted a joint investigation under an
Italian version of the 2004 U.S. Child Protect Act that lead
to the extradition of an Italian citizen involved in sex
tourism. The Italian citizen was extradited to Italy is
currently awaiting prosecution. Both the GOB and the Federal
Police have stated to post they are willing to extradite and
assist in investigating and prosecuting non-citizens involved
in sex tourism and TIP. The Brazilian Constitution prohibits
the extradition of Brazilian citizens. Naturalized citizens
may be extradited if the offense took place prior to
naturalization. No efforts are underway to modify this
provision of the Constitution.
¶J. The CPMI denounced a number of mayors, vice-mayors,
judges, city council members, and a governor, who were
involved in the sexual exploitation of minors and
prostitution rings. Former Goias mayor, Boadyr Veloso, was
charged with rape and pandering; the rape charge was
dismissed after he arranged the marriages of the seven girls
he had exploited (under current law, rape charges can be
dropped if the victim marries another man). The former
president of the Federal District's legislative assembly,
representative Benicio Tavares, took participated in a sex
tourism scheme in November. He continues to work as a
representative at the Federal District's legislative
assembly. None of those cited in the CPMI report have been
prosecuted as some cases are still under investigation and
others have been dismissed due to a lack of evidence.
Concerning slave labor, federal and government authorities
such as House Representative Inocencio Oliveira and Senator
Joao Ribeiro were convicted and fined between 550,000 to
730,000 Reais (USD 211,000 to 281,000). Both are appealing
their sentences. State authorities such as the Rio de
Janeiro State Assembly President Jorge Piccani and his son
are being prosecuted for slave labor.
¶L. Brazil is a destination country for child sex tourism.
Two cases have been identified and prosecuted to date. The
Brazilian legislation does not have extraterritoriality like
the U.S. act. The GOB has actively deported and/or
extradited non-citizens involved in child sex tourism. The
GOB has also willingly assisted foreign governments in
prosecuting non-citizens abroad under similar U.S. Child
Protect Acts (see paragraph "Investigation and Prosecution of
Traffickers," I).
¶M. The GOB has signed and ratified ILO Conventions 182,29
and 105, which were ratified on April 1957, June 1965, and
February 2000. Brazil signed and ratified the Sale of
Children Protocol, supplementing the Rights of the Child
Convention, and the Protocol to Prevent Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children,
supplementing the U.N. Convention Against Transnational
Organized Crime. They came into force in late February 2004.
Protection and Assistance to Victims
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¶A. Several GOB programs assist the victims of trafficking,
although efforts are often spotty and under-funded. The
Ministry of Social Development, with USAID funding operates
more than 600 centers to assist victims of sexual abuse and
exploitation and domestic violence through the Sentinel
Program. The Sentinela program is a service network
organization that offers immediate assistance to sexually
abused children and adolescents and provides psychological
support and development activities for community
reintegration. There are over 441 Sentinela centers
throughout the country. To assist the GOB and strengthen the
Sentinela Program, USAID partnered with the Ministry of
Social Development and the National Secretariat for Human
Rights under the Program for Integrated Action to Combat
Sexual Violence Against Children and Adolescents (PAIR),
which has been implemented by Partners of the Americas (POA)
since 2002. Under this program, POA has helped local
organizations develop a pilot program for integrating
programs and services as well as for strengthen social
assistance networks aimed at combating sex trafficking six
key municipalities. There are also a large number of NGOs
that operate throughout the country that focus on sexual
exploration and human trafficking and offer assistance to
victims. The number of victims placed into these shelters is
unknown.
The Director of the DOL funded project against child
prostitution in Foz do Iguacu said that all victims are
tested for HIV/AIDS. Anecdotally, the rate of infection is
very low. Though victims who test positively are placed in
the GOB's program, featuring free retrovirals. The program
has been extremely effective in containing HIV and preventing
the onset of full-blown AIDS.
¶B. The federal government funds the Sentinala centers
described above. In July 2003, the Brazilian Ministry of
Justice and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC) launched a pilot-program to combat international sex
trafficking of women, which includes the establishment of
victim's assistance centers in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro,
Goias and Ceara states in partnership with the state
government. The Sao Paulo and Goiania centers have been
launched, and the others are expected to be functioning by
year's end. The state offices work with and fund NGOs in
providing services to victims.
¶C. The Sentinela program has a screening process for victims.
In addition, the state offices refer those arrested to NGOs
that provide victim services and protective custody if
necessary.
¶D. Brazil, in general, is not a destination for
internationally trafficked persons. Victims of TIP are not
treated as criminals, though some NGOs have alleged that
local police officers are at times dismissive of TIP victims
that are forced to work in the sex industry, saying that they
are "just prostitutes." Victims are not usually detained,
jailed, fined, or prosecuted for other violations.
¶E. The government encourages victims to testify against
traffickers. Most trafficked Brazilian women were trafficked
internationally and cannot file suit. Brazilian law does not
provide for such suits. There is no victim restitution
program although some NGOs and GOB funded programs provide
education and training to TIP victims.
¶F. Brazilian authorities afford the trafficking victims the
same protections that other at-risk witnesses receive. The
GOB maintains a witness protection program. In practice, the
effectiveness of this program is limited by its small size,
lack of resources, and other priorities of the Government.
The program is overseen by an NGO, GAJOP, which works in
coordination with the Brazilian authorities. The program is
currently operating in all Brazilian states.
Several NGOs receiving GOB or municipal (as well as USAID or
DOL) funding are active in the area of victim assistance, but
resources are scarce and the demand great. But TIP victims
do not usually participate in the witness protection program.
¶G. The GOB provides specialized training to law enforcement
officials in Brazil, and also specialized training to
diplomats who work in embassies in destination countries.
The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
have combined on training for diplomats serving in those
countries.
¶H. As noted above, the Office of the Comprehensive Program
for the Prevention of and the Fight Against TIP operates
seven reference centers for the purpose of providing
assistance to TIP victims. The centers assist victims of
both internal and international trafficking. In addition,
the state of Sao Paulo opened an office at the Sao Paulo
international airport in early 2005 to assist trafficking
victims as they arrive.
¶I. ILO, Catholic Relief Services and other religious
organizations such as the CPT assist trafficked slave labor
victims. The NGOs that work with the Sentinela and the PAIR
programs assist sex trafficking victims. Local authorities
cooperate closely with organizations that assist victims.
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