A INTERSECÇÃO DE VULNERABILIDADES NO CASO “EMPREGADOS DA FÁBRICA DE FOGOS DE SANTO ANTÔNIO DE JESUS E SEUS FAMILIARES VS. BRASIL”: UMA ANÁLISE DAS MEDIDAS IMPLEMENTADAS PELA CORTE INTERAMERICANA DE DIREITOS HUMANOS AO CASO

Abstract

The present work refers to the analysis of the case of Employees of the Santo Antônio de Jesus Fireworks Factory and their Families vs. Brazil, which occurred in Brazil in 1998 and judged by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 2020. Starting from the method of deductive approach and the method of analytical procedure, the objective is to answer the following research problem: on the analysis of the decision of the Inter-American Court in the case “Employees of Fábrica de Fogos de Santo Antônio de Jesus and their families v. Brazil” which duties have the InterAmerican Court recognized that Brazil has violated and what are the measures established by the decision? Therefore, as specific objectives, initially, the contextualization of the situation experienced by the workers of the aforementioned factory and their families will be presented, highlighting the situations of vulnerability and inequality to which these people were subjected. Subsequently, an explanation will be made regarding the judgment handed down by the Inter-American Court, highlighting the state's omission and the violated rights of factory workers, as well as the existence of an intersected vulnerability and the breach in the to owe state protection duty. Finally, an analysis will be carried out regarding the position developed by the Inter-American Court in the decision, in order to identify which duties the State has not complied with, analyzing the presence of child labor in that factory, and the measures established by the Inter-American Court in the decision.