As políticas públicas de combate ao trabalho escravo contemporâneo no Brasil (2003–2024) : uma análise necropolítica a partir do caso “Fazenda Brasil Verde” na Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos

Abstract

In 2016, Brazil was deemed responsible by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for violating its obligations of securing the rights established in the American Convention on Human Rights, a treaty adhered by the country in 1992. The case in judgement, known as “Fazenda Brasil Verde”, became notorious because it prompted the Court to deliberate about contemporary slavery for the first time. In its sentence, the Court determined a number of measures to be implemented by the Brazilian State, seeking to overcome the problem in the country. Through the case deliberations, it was noteworthy that the State’s actions were of connivance, allowing the occurrence of cases of slavery and promoting restraint measures that were not always effective. In that regard, the present work utilizes Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics as the basis theory for analyzing this conjuncture. By using the Court’s sentence as a temporal mark, the study seeks to identify, through necropolitics, what was the government’s agency in regards to the public policies of slavery repression in Brazil after it was sentenced by the Court in 2016. The study is characterized as a qualitative research, with an historical-comparative approach, based on a bibliographic and documentary analysis.