Volkswagen’s Brazil unit has been ordered to pay 165 million reais ($30.44 million) in damages for subjecting workers to slavery-like conditions on a farm during the 1970s and 1980s, labour prosecutors said on Friday.
A Brazilian labour court ruled that hundreds of workers at a Volkswagen-run ranch were forced into degrading work, subjected to debt bondage and kept under armed surveillance.
Volkswagen stated that it intends to appeal the decision.
The company’s cattle ranching and logging activities in the Amazon during that period were supported by government incentives under Brazil’s military dictatorship, forming part of a broader state plan to develop the region.
Prosecutors said the ruling followed failed settlement talks, in which Volkswagen “showed no interest” in reaching an agreement.
As part of the court’s order, Volkswagen must publicly acknowledge its responsibility, issue a formal apology, and implement a “zero-tolerance” policy against slave labour.
In a statement, Volkswagen said it “consistently defends the principles of human dignity and strictly complies with all applicable labour laws and regulations.”
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met today to discuss the December 2024 aviation tragedy involving an Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft, as well as to reaffirm the strength of their bilateral relationship.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has survived two attempts to remove her from office after the European Parliament rejected no-confidence motions from hard-right and left-wing groups on Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met today to discuss the December 2024 aviation tragedy involving an Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft, as well as to reaffirm the strength of their bilateral relationship.
Colombian President Gustavo Pietro has said that the last boat bombed by the Trump led administration was a Colombian vessel carrying Colombian citizens.
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "compelling and visionary oeuvre" that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art," according to the Swedish Academy.
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