{
  "id": 11090,
  "url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/brazil-volkswagen-slavery",
  "title": "The Past is Never Past",
  "summary": "On June 11, 2026, the German automotive company Volkswagen was convicted in four different lawsuits by the Brazilian Labor Court for reducing people to slavery in the Brazilian Amazon. While this judgment marks the company’s second round of convictions for enslavement within the Amazonian state of Pará, it stands out as a historic first in the form of individual reparations for corporate crimes committed nearly fifty years ago. This opens the way for a new era of reckoning with several other com",
  "authors": "Saulo de Matos",
  "category": "org",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
  "orgs": "amazon",
  "regions": "latam",
  "published_at": "2026-07-16T08:46:39.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-17T05:10:53.887Z",
  "source_slug": "x-verfassungsblog-eu-law-incl-ai",
  "source_name": "Verfassungsblog (EU law incl AI)",
  "source_homepage": "https://verfassungsblog.de",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11090",
  "original_url": "https://verfassungsblog.de/brazil-volkswagen-slavery",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}