This webinar is hosted by the Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at University of Manchester. It is open to the public and students/staff.
Our speaker is: Prof Vitor Araújo Filgueiras, Project Coordinator at Fundacentro in Brazil.
The talk will be followed by Q&A. The webinar start time is 4pm UK / GMT.
REGISTRATION is via: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/dc913a83-fc62-4fa9-8e9e-c1066a908946@c152cb07-614e-4abb-818a-f035cfa91a77
ABOUT
The Brazilian labour market is structurally precarious and featured by high rates of illness and extreme forms of labour exploitation. While there is labour protection legislation that is reasonably protective, despite being under attack in recent decades, it remains largely disregarded by employers. Considering this picture, the State has taken some actions -some of them recent- that seek to increase the effectiveness of labour protection standards and improve living conditions, particularly regarding the identification and prevention of occupational illnesses and the creation of life options for victims of contemporary slave labour.
In his talk, Dr Vitor Filgueiras will present the innovative and multidisciplinary programs aiming at fighting labour exploitation and modern slavery in Brazil: Caminhos do Trabalho (‘Paths to Work’) and Vida Pós Resgate (‘Life After Rescue’) programs, coordinated by the Ministry of Labor through a network of Brazilian public institutions. Caminhos do Trabalho builds on a network of public universities to assist workers victims of work-related illnesses, providing medical, legal, and psychological assistance. Vida Pós Resgate promotes the training of rural production cooperatives with workers rescued from conditions amounting to modern slavery in their places of origin. This program uses resources from the court fines paid by abusive employers.
SPEAKER
Dr Vitor Filgueiras is the founder and Project Coordinator of the Caminhos do Trabalho (‘Paths to Work’) and Vida Pós Resgate (‘Life After Rescue’) programs at Fundacentro (Ministry of Labor), and Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA).
He is an economist and social scientist with a global academic expertise, and professional expertise in bridging policy, practice, and academia. He held visiting positions at institutions such as the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of California, Irvine. He has served as a senior scholar at UFBA, where he also coordinated the Postgraduate Program in Economics, and has played a key leadership role in the Brazilian Association for Labor Studies (ABET). He was also a Labor Inspector for Brazil’s Ministry of Labor from 2007-2017, which ground his interest in addressing exploitation and poor working conditions.
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HCRI
HCRI is a research and teaching centre at University of Manchester, dedicated to the study of humanitarianism and conflict response, global health, international disaster management and peacebuilding. Our website is: https://www.hcri.ac.uk/
