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Are You Invested in Exploitation?
Why US investment firms should quit financing conflict palm oil and commit to human rights.
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Global palm oil traders acknowledge the need to prevent human rights abuses in Guatemala
Cargill’s public position against violence and REPSA’s promise of reform are significant,” said Jeff Conant, Senior International Forests Program Director at Friends of the Earth-US. “But real transfo…
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International coalition of NGOs says murder, intimidation and the devastation of community livelihoods tied to rampant palm oil plantation expansion must be stopped
The murder of human rights defender Rigoberto Lima Choc on September 18, 2015 is yet another shocking example of the violence that plagues the palm oil sector.
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Indonesia’s palm oil fires: Responding to the crisis
Massive forest fires have engulfed Indonesia for several months, and produce more daily CO2 emissions than the entire U.S. economy. The fires are responsible for as many as 500,000 cases of respirator…
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Palm oil fires rage in Indonesian Borneo
Every year during the dry season, rural Indonesia literally goes up in smoke due to the illegal burning of forests for palm oil plantations. This year’s fire season is one of the worst ever. Dur…
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Hidden abuse: The persistence of slave labor within Southeast Asia’s palm oil industry
Lucrative as it is for multi-national corporations, the palm oil industry has incited numerous humanitarian concerns in recent years. Palm oil giants have increasingly acted at the expense of those em…
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When Wilmar finishes, we have no future left: New report on Nigerian palm oil land grabs
The oil palm tree is native to West Africa and palm oil, in its rawest form, is a staple of the West African diet. So, while it is new to Western consumers as an ingredient in roughly half of our pack…
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Exploitation and Empty Promises: Wilmar’s Nigerian Land Grab
Nigeria is a key frontier country for palm oil expansion. Since 2010, Wilmar International has acquired thirty-thousand of hectares of land for palm oil plantations in southeastern Nigeria, and the co…
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Up in Smoke: Failures in Wilmar’s Promise to Clean Up the Palm Oil Business
This report shows that global palm oil companies Bumitama Agri and Wilmar International, backed by major U.S. and European investors, have created conditions that have allowed Indonesia’s devastatin…
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Continuing to Exploit and Deforest: Wilmar’s Ongoing Abuses
Wilmar International is one of the largest palm oil companies in the world, and the largest palm oil refiner in Malaysia and Indonesia