Child labor has long been a dark stain on the $65 billion global palm oil industry. Though often denied or minimized as kids simply helping their families on weekends or after school, it has been ...

Palm oil labor issues extend far beyond Girl Scout cookies and child labor. We found rape,trafficking,forced labor,even slavery involving men, women and kids. And we traced it to MANY big companies’ ...

With a huge labor shortage in the palm oil sector, they wondered ... Many of the workers spoke of brutal conditions including child labor,outright slavery and allegations of rape. McDowell and Mason ...

Human rights abuses such as child labor and forced evictions have been well documented. On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, palm oil companies have sometimes bulldozed entire indigenous villages ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia does not condone any act of forced labour and child labour in oil palm plantations as alleged by the reports of the United States Department of Labour (DoL). In the past fiv ...

There also remains some exploitation of workers and child labour. These are serious issues that the whole palm oil sector needs to step up to address because it doesn’t have to be this way. Palm oil ...

KOTA KINABALU: Children in oil palm estates in the Tawau district are set to benefit from an 18-month programme launched in conjunction with the World Day Against Child Labour on Wednesday (June 12).

The Indonesian Palm Oil Association (GAPKI) has officially launched a guidebook on Perjanjian Kerja Harian (PKH) or Daily ...

with a commitment to environmental conservation and a zero-tolerance policy towards child labour. The expert in oil palm cultivation expressed confidence in the success of the project, citing the ...

It is feared in major oil palm production areas that the ecosystem is being destroyed by logging, as tropical rainforests are cleared to develop farms. Human rights abuses such as child labor are ...