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List of rural workers freed from Amazonian estate where officials of the Brazilian Ministry of Labour found modern slavery. High percentage of illiterate labourers ( signed with finger-print ). Boa Fé Farm, city: Ourilândia do Norte, State: Pará, Brazil. Special Group for the Repression of Forced Labour (Groupo Especial de Repressão ao Trabalho Forçado) or GERTRAF, as it is commonly known, is made up of mobile groups that work in different regions of the country, investigating accusations of work conditions close to slavery on farms, charcoal works, plantations and sugar mills.  They are officials of the Ministry of Labour and they have support from the Federal Police.