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 ...

“There is nothing sustainable about palm oil that is produced using child labour and forced labour.” Meghna Abraham, Amnesty Business and Human Rights Senior Investigator AFAMSA, ADM, ...

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 ...

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 ...