Eight major household brands including PZ Cussons, Johnson & Johnson and Kellogg's have refused to take steps towards eliminating palm oil from Indonesian forest destruction from their supply chains, a new Greenpeace report reveals.
A new report by Greenpeace International reveals that suppliers to the world’s biggest consumer brands still cannot guarantee their palm oil is free from forest destruction.
The world's most popular household companies are selling food, cosmetics and other everyday staples containing palm oil tainted by appalling human rights abuses in Indonesia, with children as young as eight working in hazardous conditions, Amnesty International said in a new report published today (30 November 2016 ).
Members of the nomadic Orang Rimba tribe in Indonesia have been attacked and their possessions burned as part of an eviction from a palm oil plantation on their ancestral land.
Tribal people and small farmers in the Philippine province of Palawan have called for a halt to the expansion of oil palm plantations which destroy the forests they rely on to survive.
Representatives of some of Ethiopia’s biggest aid donors are to send a team to the southwest of the country to investigate persistent reports of human rights abuses amongst the tribes living there.