Contemporary slavery. In the background, member of mobile group that combats slave work in Brazil registers in a cadaster the laborers freed from captivity at Boa Fé Farm, city: Ourilândia do Norte, State: Pará, Amazon rainforest, Brazil. In the foreground, the contractor deplores the fact of have been caught. 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.