Labor and Human Rights Cargill
Cargill participates in several initiatives to better understand and address labor and human rights challenges in the Malaysian palm oil supply chain: Cargill joined with industry partners to commission an assessment of migrant labor in the palm oil sector. The assessment, conducted by Embode, looked at migration of workers into Malaysia
Rather than taking a human rights approach and shedding light on the abuses, however, the industry has sought to address these problems through a confidential, 75% industry-governed voluntary certification system: The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). The RSPO stamp of approval is meant to assure consumers that plantations are free of
Labor Exploitation and Human Rights Abuses within the
Workshop builds consensus for a common set of palm oil labor principles for companies, certifiers and governments . Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia This week, a group of international NGOs convened with dozens of representatives from labor unions, worker advocacy and human rights organizations from across Indonesia and Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the second Palm Oil Labor
Palm oil has been in the news a lot lately, but the news hasn't been good. From forest fires across Indonesia used to make way for new plantations to human and labor rights abuses, media scrutiny has uncovered the often troubling conditions associated with this almost ubiquitous oil. It has also uncovered worrying weaknesses in the voluntary mechanisms set up to promote palm oil
Empty Assurances: The human cost of palm oil
The RSPO stamp of approval is meant to assure consumers that plantations are free of conflict palm oil. Unfortunately, we found flagrant disregard for human rights at some of the very plantations the RSPO certifies as “sustainable.” In July 2013, Bloomberg released an investigative report exposing the existence of child and forced labor in
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Human rights issues in palm oil Nestlé Global
How are you addressing human rights issues in the palm oil sector? Human and labor rights abuses have no place in our supply chain and we are working hard to address them. For a number of years, we have been working with partners, including the Danish Institute for Human Rights
The Human Cost of Conflict Palm Oil Revisited . Publication Date: November 27, 2024. Author: International Labor Rights Forum, Rainforest Action Network, and OPPUK. Increasingly, the exploitation of workers has been at the center of controversies in the palm oil industry. In 2015, forced labor and human trafficking on the plantations of one of Malaysia’s biggest palm oil companies,
Nestle, Hershey's, P&G among brands slammed for forced
An investigation into Malaysian palm oil supplier FGV, formerly known as FELDA, by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), found forced labor, human trafficking, unsafe living conditions and dozens of other breaches of RSPO sustainability criteria. As a result, RSPO suspended the membership of a mill and four plantations belonging to FGV.
Rainforest Action Network (RAN), OPPUK, an Indonesian labor rights advocacy organization, and the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) co-published a report in June 2016 documenting serious human and workers’ rights violations on two Indonesian palm oil plantations owned by IndoAgri, a subsidiary of PepsiCo’s joint-venture partner