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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 BRASILIA 000348 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR G/TIP MARK TAYLOR AND BARBARA FLECK, WHA/PPC FOR 
SCOTT MILLER, WHA/BSC FOR CAROLINE CROFT AND BOB WITAJEWSKI, INL, 
DRL, AND PRM.  USAID. 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BR
 
SUBJECT:  BRAZIL:  NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT, 
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 
 
REFS: A. 08 STATE 132759, B. BRASILIA 250, B. BRASILIA 251, C. 
BRASILIA 252 
 
¶1.  This message provides additional information on trafficking in 
persons in Brazil not previously reported in refs B, C, and D.  With 
the exception of paragraph 4, the new information was provided by 
the National Secretariat of Justice (SNJ), which has been very 
cooperative and helpful to the Mission in the completion of this 
report, unlike in 2007 and 2008, when it refused to work with us on 
the report. 
 
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THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION 
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(NOTE:  Answer corresponds to questions in ref A, para. 23. END 
NOTE) 
 
Section E 
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¶2.  According to the SNJ, principal destination countries for 
Brazilian sex trafficking victims are Spain, The Netherlands, 
Venezuela, Italy, and Portugal, and the top destination countries 
for labor trafficking victims from Brazil are Bolivia and Paraguay. 
 
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SETTING THE SCENE FOR THE GOVERNMENT'S ANTI-TIP EFFORTS 
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(NOTE:  Answer corresponds to questions in ref A, para. 24. END 
NOTE) 
 
Section C 
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¶3.  According to the SNJ, TIP expenditures in the PRONASCI budget in 
2008 were 750,000 reals (about USD 333,000). 
 
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INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION 
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(NOTE:  Answers correspond to questions in ref A, para. 25. END 
NOTE) 
 
Section E 
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¶4.  On March 4, 2009, a federal judge in, Maraba, Para state, 
convicted and sentenced 22 persons on slave labor charges, acquitted 
six on slave labor charges but convicted them of other, related 
charges, and acquitted another six defendants entirely of slave 
labor charges.  According to official statements, the six who were 
completely acquitted could not be convicted because the charges 
dated from before 2003, before the alteration of Article 149 
(Reducing a person to a condition analogous to slavery) to stipulate 
a prison sentence of greater than two years eight months.  The 
sentences handed down ranged from three years, four months, in 
prison and fine of 100 "fine-days" to ten years, six months, in 
prison and 315 "fine-days" (Note.  NFI on "fine-days," possibly 
based on minimum wage earnings.  End note.)   The defendants can 
appeal the sentences.  According to a statement on the case from the 
Federal Prosecutor's office in Para, southeastern Para is the source 
of the greatest number of slave labor cases brought to the Federal 
Public Ministry, and of the 64 cases for Article 149 violations 
brought to the Federal Public Ministry in 2008, 46 concerned workers 
freed from farms in southeastern Para.  This case is extremely 
important because it is the first instance of slave labor 
convictions in federal court that have resulted from the November 
30, 2006, Supreme Court decision that gave federal courts the 
authority to try slave labor cases. Previously they were handled in 
state courts. 
 
Section F 
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¶5.  In September 2008, the National Secretariat of Justice (SNJ) 
carried out the First Training Course on Trafficking in Persons and 
 
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Irregular Immigration, designed especially for officials who work in 
the restricted areas of the Guarulhos airport, Brazil's busiest, 
including federal police agents, phyto-sanitary inspectors, 
employees of Infraero (the airports authority), and the federal 
revenue service. In February 2007, the SNJ had provided a training 
course on the same subjects for airline employees, and federal and 
civil and police agents.  Approximately 300 persons (total) 
participated in the two courses. 
 
¶6.  According to the SNJ, the government and the University of 
Brasilia have presented a distance learning course on TIP for 600 
professionals (dates not specified). 
 
Section H 
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¶7.  According to the SNJ, Brazil has two pending extradition cases 
in which a judge in Bahia state requested the extradition from Spain 
of Brazilian women arrested in December 2008 on charges including 
international trafficking in persons. 
 
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PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS 
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(NOTE:  Answers correspond to questions in ref A, para. 26. END 
NOTE) 
 
Section B 
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¶8.  According to the SNJ, the government works with shelters and 
health care providers to provide assistance to victims of 
trafficking and forced labor at over 600 sites, and a network of 400 
centers work with children, including victims of commercial sexual 
exploitation and sex tourism.  The government of the state of Sao 
Paulo continues working with an NGO to assist repatriated Brazilian 
women and adolescents who were trafficking victims.  Also according 
to SNJ, the Assistance Program for Women and Adolescent Victims of 
Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation has been in continuous operation 
since October 2006 with funding from USAID, which provides it 
training, technical and financial assistance.  The program has 
developed a judicial mechanism to provide social, psychological and 
legal assistance to child and adult victims, and was developed on 
the basis of the rights guaranteed to TIP victims in the Palermo 
Protocol.  The program is being carried out in ten Brazilian cities, 
including Manaus, Sao Luis, Fortaleza, Natal, Foz do Iguacu, Rio 
Branco, Recife, Salvador, Sao Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, all chosen 
because of their high incidence of trafficking in women and 
children. 
 
Section D 
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¶9.  According to the SNJ, over 20,000 Bolivians have been granted 
legal status in Brazil since the 2005 Brazil/Bolivia Migratory 
Regularization Agreement allowed them to adjust status.  The SNJ 
states that the total number of Bolivians who have benefited is 
around 60,000 because the data do not include dependents. 
 
Section K 
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¶10.  According to the SNJ, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry recently 
(NFI) instructed its embassies and consulates to "map out" a network 
of support and shelter in order to provide partnerships and 
protection trafficking victims overseas. 
 
Section M 
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¶11.  According to the SNJ, a large number of NGOs with broad agendas 
are also involved in combatting trafficking in Brazil, including the 
Palmares Foundation, the "Cry for Life Network" (Rede Grito Pela 
Vida), as well as churches, working jointly with NGOs and the 
government. 
 
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PREVENTION 
 
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(NOTE:  Answers correspond to questions in ref A, para. 27. END 
NOTE) 
 
Section A 
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¶12.  Following up on the successful First Libertas Prize 
competition, organized in 2008, the government plans to conduct a 
Second Libertas Prize competition in 2009. 
 
Section C 
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¶13.  Brazil and Portugal have a Cooperative Agreement for the 
Prevention and Repression of the Illicit Traffic in Immigrants. 
Under the auspices of the agreement, the SNJ and the government of 
Portugal are organizing the Second Luso-Brazilian Seminar on 
Trafficking in Persons and Irregular Immigration, to take place 
March 23 and 24, 2009, in Portugal. 
 
Section E 
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¶14.  The Sentinela victim assistance program has been renamed the 
Service to Confront Violence, Abuse and Sexual Exploitation Against 
Children and Adolescents. 
 
KUBISKE