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Name	Country	Year	Focus
Brother Xavier Plassat	Brazil Brother Xavier Plassat Brazil	2010	Forced Labor Victim Aftercare Awareness Building Rescue	Brother Xavier Plassat, a friar of the Dominican order, first came across forced labor practices after coming to Brazil in the 1980s.
Leonardo Sakamoto	Brazil Leonardo Sakamoto Brazil	2017	Forced Labor
Pureza Lopes Loyola	Brazil Pureza Lopes Loyola Brazil	2023	Forced Labor Awareness Building Labor Trafficking Labor Exploitation	Pureza Lopes Loyola is a respected activist whose three-year quest to find her son led the Government of Brazil to create the Mobile Inspection Group in 1995.

Name

Country

Year

Focus

Brother Xavier Plassat

Brazil Brother Xavier Plassat

Brazil

2010

Forced Labor
Victim Aftercare
Awareness Building
Rescue

Brother Xavier Plassat, a friar of the Dominican order, first came across forced labor practices after coming to Brazil in the 1980s.

Leonardo Sakamoto

Brazil Leonardo Sakamoto

Brazil

2017

Forced Labor

Pureza Lopes Loyola

Brazil Pureza Lopes Loyola

Brazil

2023

Forced Labor
Awareness Building
Labor Trafficking
Labor Exploitation

Pureza Lopes Loyola is a respected activist whose three-year quest to find her son led the Government of Brazil to create the Mobile Inspection Group in 1995.

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