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    Amnesty International Calls Out Labor Abuses in Palm Oil

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     A new report unveiled by Amnesty International contends that “world’s most popular food and household companies are selling food, cosmetics and other everyday staples containing palm oil tainted by shocking human rights abuses in Indonesia, with children as young as eight working in hazardous conditions.”


    The report, “The great palm oil scandal: Labor abuses behind big brand names,” investigates palm oil plantations in Indonesia run by the world’s biggest palm oil grower, Singapore-based agri-business Wilmar. Amnesty International says the report traces palm oil to nine global firms: AFAMSA, ADM, Colgate-Palmolive, Elevance, Kellogg’s, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser and Unilever.


    “Companies are turning a blind eye to exploitation of workers in their supply chain. Despite promising customers that there will be no exploitation in their palm oil supply chains, big brands continue to profit from appalling abuses. These findings will shock any consumer who thinks they are making ethical choices in the supermarket when they buy products that claim to use sustainable palm oil,” said Meghna Abraham, senior investigator at Amnesty International.


    “Corporate giants like Colgate, Nestlé and Unilever assure consumers that their products use ‘sustainable palm oil,’ but our findings reveal that the palm oil is anything but. There is nothing sustainable about palm oil that is produced using child labor and forced labor. The abuses discovered within Wilmar’s palm oil operations are not isolated incidents but are systemic and a predictable result of the way Wilmar does business,” noted Abraham.


    Amnesty International is embarking on a campaign to ask the firms to tell customers whether the palm oil in popular products like Magnum ice cream, Colgate toothpaste, Dove cosmetics, Knorr soup, KitKat, Pantene shampoo, Ariel, and Pot Noodle comes from Wilmar’s Indonesian operation.


    Amnesty International said it spoke to 120 workers who work on palm plantations owned by two Wilmar subsidiaries and three Wilmar suppliers in Kalimantan and Sumatra in Indonesia. The investigation exposed a wide range of abuses—ranging from long hours to unsafe working conditions to child labor.


    According to AI, three of the five palm growers it investigated in Indonesia are certified as producing “sustainable” palm oil under the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).


    “This report clearly shows that companies have used the Roundtable as a shield to deflect greater scrutiny. Our investigation uncovered that these companies have strong policies on paper but none could demonstrate that they had identified obvious risks of abuses in Wilmar’s supply chain,” said Seema Joshi, head of business and human rights.


    Using export data and information published by Wilmar, Amnesty International researchers traced palm oil to nine global food and household companies. When approached, seven of the firms confirmed they buy palm oil from Wilmar’s Indonesian operations, but only two, Kellogg’s and Reckitt Benckiser, were willing to give any level of detail about which products were affected. 


    All but one of these companies are members of the RSPO, and claim they use “sustainable palm oil” on their websites or product labels. Amnesty International said none of the companies it contacted denied that the abuses were taking place, nor did any provide examples of action taken to deal with labor rights abuses in Wilmar’s operations.


    Amnesty International researchers reportedly traced palm oil from specific refineries or mills directly supplied by the plantations investigated to seven of the companies. 
     
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