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Carlos Juliano Barros, André Campos, Brazil

August 13, 2013
https://p.dw.com/p/19Kb5
Carlos Juliano (links) und André Micalli de Campos, Autoren, Brasilien. André Micalli de Campos ist Teilnehmer und Finalist des Deutschen Medienpreis Entwicklungspolitik 2013, Region Lateinamerika.
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In our globalized world, it's often very difficult or even impossible to know where the products in your local supermarket, fast-food restaurant or department store come from, or under what conditions they were made. Reporter André Campos has spent the last few years looking at multinational supply chains and the social problems that can be linked to them. His stories have shown how products sold to foreign chains may be associated with poor working conditions and human rights violations in Brazil.

Campos works as a researcher, reporter and project coordinator for Repórter Brazil, an NGO that looks at problems affecting Brazilian workers and the country's environment. He has also worked for the past five years as an independent reporter with other media organizations, such as Rolling Stone, GQ, and Agência Pública, the partner of WikiLeaks in Brazil.

"Slaughtering people" ("Moendo gente") is an online Repórter Brasil project in which Campos and fellow journalist Carlos Juliano Barros examined the reality faced by Brazilian meat workers on the job. Instances of trauma, tendonitis, severe injury and even mental disorders are not uncommon. The exposé focused on three big Brazilian meat exporters and presents the results through videos, maps and text. The investigation also looked into links Brazilian meat has to some of the world's largest fast-food groups and retailers, including McDonald's, Burger King, Walmart, Metro, Aldi and more. "Slaughtering People" got major coverage from Brazilian news outlets and was widely shared through social media.

Links to "Slaughtering people" (in English) and "Moendo gente" (in Portuguese)