Escravidão moderna: considerações jurídico-penais sobre o combate ao trabalho escravo no Brasil

Abstract

This article proposes a discussion about the ineffectiveness of human rights norms in combating slave labor, even after being confirmed in the legal systems of the State-Nations that ratify them. Despite the scope of this issue, the focus of this paper is the Brazilian legal and penal system, as well the historical line of the publication of art. 149 of your penal code. For this, it considers the paradox faced by human rights to become effective in a society that, in the search for profit, does not mind losing its humanity, without ignoring the current economic system and its implications on the referred issues. It is argued that the model of neoliberalist economics interferes in the most diverse spheres of life in community, being one of the main responsible for the prolongation of slave labor in contemporary society, insofar to its existence comes from exploitation. The present work was produced through a bibliographic survey of texts and books which deal with human rights, criminal law, the history of slavery in Brazil and in the world, in addition to jurisprudence.