GoodElectronics member Repórter Brasil celebrates fifteen years of exposing companies that are involved in human rights violations. The organisation’s executive secretary, Marcel Gomes, wrote a reflection on the role of Repórter Brasil.
Gomes states that it is Repórter Brasil’s aim to show the humanity of people who have been systematically dehumanized: “With reports that tell stories about people from the state of Maranhão who were enslaved in cattle ranches in Pará; about Indians who lost their land to large soy farmers in Mato Grosso do Sul; about Bolivian women nursing babies while sowing at workshops in São Paulo.” Moreover, he argues that it is very important to expose the system that caused the violation of these people’s human rights. Click here to read the full piece.
