Child labor and forced labor are fueling profits for global conglomerates including Nestlé, Colgate-Palmolive, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Kellogg’s, and others, finds an Amnesty International report published Wednesday.
The corporations are ignoring labor abuses—which include children as young as eight working in grueling conditions—on Indonesia plantations run by the world’s largest palm oil grower, the Singapore-based Wilmar, the report found.
“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 labour 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.”
http://www.amnestyusa.org/sites/default/files/the_great_palm_oil_scandal_embargoed_until_30_nov.pdf
— source commondreams.org