nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/496ba1ec915d36ca DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260716s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/496ba1ec915d36ca doi eng 342 23 de Matos, Saulo Author aut The Past is Never Past - Volkswagen’s New Convictions for Slavery in the Brazilian Amazon de Matos, Saulo Verfassungsblog 2026-07-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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 companies that committed similar crimes in the past and to this day have never been brought to justice. CC BY-SA 4.0 Brazil Modern slavery Reparations Volkswagen Volkswagen AG. Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge | Hannover (DE-588)1279971673 gnd Volkswagen AG. Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge | Hannover Guimarães, Heitor Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/brazil-volkswagen-slavery/ raw object