Human Trafficking In Brazil

Comparatively, Brazil increased enforcement of its trafficking laws in the fiscal year of 2015 (Figure 3). It was reported that 374 cases were investigated and 97 prosecutions under Article 231 and 231 A. Under Article 149, there was decrease in the number of cases investigated; according to the TIP, 296 cases were investigated, 65 prosecuted, and 4 charges. Shockingly, in 2015, only 21 convictions against traffickers was reported under Articles 231, 231 A, and 149 (citation).

Brazil distinguishes itself from Title 3 countries, such as Sudan and Iran, because of its recognition of trafficking and its efforts to punish traffickers, as well as take proactive measures. However, significant change in the legal definition of trafficking and more

Its purpose was to provide protection, prevention, and prosecutions against human trafficking. Under the TVPA, the federal governments provides housing, educational, health care, job training, and other social programs to trafficking victims. The law also establishes the T-visa. The T-visa temporarily allows victims to become residents of the United States. Every year, up to 5,000 victims are able to obtain permanent residence status after three years. Before, many victims were viewed as illegal aliens and were subsequently deported. Victims are allowed into the Witness Protection Program (citation). The TVPA aimed to prevent trafficking in persons by the implementation and assertion educational and public awareness programs on modern-day slavery. Additionally, Chapter 77 of title 18, United States Code, was amended to provide harsher penalties and ensure more convictions

Sex trafficking of children or by force, fraud or coercion ‘‘(a) Whoever knowingly— ‘‘(1) in or affecting interstate commerce, recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides, or obtains by any means a person; or ‘‘(2) benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture which has engaged in an act described in violation of paragraph (1), knowing that force, fraud, or coercion described in subsection (c)(2) will be used to cause the person to engage in a commercial sex act, or that the person has not attained the age of 18 years and will be caused to engage in a commercial sex act, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). ‘‘(b) The punishment for an offense under subsection (a) is— ‘‘(1) if the offense was effected by force, fraud, or coercion or if the person transported had not attained the age of 14 years at the time of such offense, by a fine under this title or imprisonment for any term of years or for life, or both; or ‘‘(2) if the offense was not so effected, and the person transported had attained the age of 14 years but had not attained the age of 18 years at the time of such offense, by a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or