assessing forced labor risks in the palm oil press machine sector
ASSESSING FORCED LABOR RISKS IN THE PALM OIL SECTOR
research to assess the forced labor situation in the palm oil sector in Indonesia and Malaysia, two countries, which combined, account for the majority of the palm oil used worldwide. This report presents the aggregate . research findings, including analysis and recommendations, and expands understanding of forced labor issues in the palm oil sector. Furthermore, the report will inform CGF and
Labor and Human Rights Risk Analysis of Ecuador’s Palm Oil Sector. This report is another important contribution to the literature on human and labor rights risks in palm oil production globally. Thus far, there has been very little research on conditions in palm oil production in Ecuador, Latin America’s largest producer.
Risk of Labor Abuse in Guatemalan Palm Oil Verité
Today (March 31, 2014), Verité releases an in-depth case study of the risk of human and labor rights abuses in the production of palm oil in Guatemala. This report is the outcome of weeks of on-the-ground field research and expert consultation led by Research Program Manager Quinn Kepes.
Press Releases. November 17, 2014. Labor Exploitation and Human Rights Abuses within the Palm Oil Sector . 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
Sustainable Palm Oil? Verité
Sustainable Palm Oil? Promoting New Measures to Combat Risks of Forced Labor and Human Trafficking in Palm Oil Supply Chains Palm oil is almost ubiquitous. It is in our food products, our cosmetics and our detergents, increasingly the most common vegetable oil used in our kitchens and a growing staple of the bio-fuels industry around the world
We are working with them to improve the traceability to plantations and put in place targeted action plans to address labor risks. What is your response to the Solidar Suisse report on labor rights in palm oil supply chains? Human rights abuses, including forced labor and child labor, are inacceptable.
Food sector urged to follow Unilever and Nestlé
According to CORE, key ingredients represent a risk for food makers who may inadvertently source commodities produced using forced labour. “Our report looked at specific risks in the cocoa, palm oil and Assam tea supply chains where there is well-documented evidence of labour rights abuses.
Child labour in plantation in Indonesia at glance It is estimated that over 1.5 million children aged between 10-17 years are working in the agricultural sector. The three provinces with the largest incidence of child labourers in agricultural sector are North Sumatra (155,196 children), Central Java (204,406) and East Java (224,075).
Palm Oil International Labor Rights Forum
Together with NGOs and trade unions from the United States, Europe and Asia, ILRF developed a report in 2015 on solutions to help the palm oil industry move forward in ending labor rights abuses in the sector. The full report, Free and Fair Labor in Palm Oil Production: Principles and Implementation Guidance, is available here.
We are working with them to improve the traceability to plantations and put in place targeted action plans to address labor risks. What is your response to the Solidar Suisse report on labor rights in palm oil supply chains? Human rights abuses, including forced labor and child labor, are inacceptable.
Child labour in plantation International Labour
Child labour in plantation in Indonesia at glance It is estimated that over 1.5 million children aged between 10-17 years are working in the agricultural sector. The three provinces with the largest incidence of child labourers in agricultural sector are North Sumatra (155,196 children), Central Java (204,406) and East Java (224,075).
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Palm Oil International Labor Rights Forum
Together with NGOs and trade unions from the United States, Europe and Asia, ILRF developed a report in 2015 on solutions to help the palm oil industry move forward in ending labor rights abuses in the sector. The full report, Free and Fair Labor in Palm Oil Production: Principles and Implementation Guidance, is available here.
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Palm Oil: Global brands profiting from child and forced
Palm Oil: Global brands profiting from child and forced labour 30 November 2016, 16:40 UTC. Unilever, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble among nine household names contributing to labour abuse . The world’s most popular food and household companies are selling food, cosmetics and other everyday staples containing palm oil tainted by shocking human rights abuses in Indonesia, with
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Library Page 4 of 27 The Consumer Goods Forum
“M&S can’t change the world of palm oil on its own. By teaming up with other big players in the industry through The Forum, we have additional leverage and can share best practice. Very simply, together we are stronger and can move faster to help create a more sustainable approach to production and consumption”.
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Verité Human Trafficking Risk Factors in Palm Oil
According to the US Department of State, forced labor occurred in the production of palm oil in Benin.[15] UNDESIRABLE AND HAZARDOUS WORK. Substandard living and working conditions have been documented in the palm oil industry in Cameroon.[16] Housing provided by companies can be overcrowded and lack access to clean drinking water and sanitation, and workers often do not receive
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Newly Released Guidance Aims to Improve
“The razing of rainforests and prevalent use of child labor in the palm oil sector create regulatory risks and hinder companies’ social license to operate, which can threaten access to raw materials, production, and overall brand equity. Companies need to be transparent about how they are managing these risks so that we, as investors, can
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Library The Consumer Goods Forum
The Consumer Goods Forum and Fair Labor Association Call for Greater Collaboration to Tackle Forced Labour Issues in Palm Oil Industry 6 November 2024 PARIS, 6th November 2024 Malaysia and Indonesia are leading producers of palm oil, together accounting for 86 percent of global production and employing nearly 3.5 million workers, largely migrants from
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The Consumer Goods Forum and Fair Labor Association
A new report from the Fair Labor Association (FLA), commissioned by The Consumer Goods Forum's (CGF) Palm Oil Working Group, seeks to understand the forced labour risks across the sector in
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KnowTheChain Taking Food, Beverage Brands to Task
“Workers, companies, and investors are connected to the risks of forced labor. This benchmark reveals the work that remains to be done by the food and beverage sector to root out exploitation from their supply chains,” said Kilian Moote, Director of KnowTheChain.
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Media We Mean Business Coalition
January 26, 2024 Newly Released Guidance Aims to Improve Transparency in the Palm Oil Industry Ceres. With rainforest destruction and forced labor urgent concerns in palm oil cultivation, a diverse group of NGOs and investor organizations releases today shared guidance for corporate reporting on company commitments towards responsible palm oil sourcing and production.
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The Kraft Heinz Company
To ensure our purchases do not contribute to deforestation, loss of biodiversity or social issues such as forced and child labor and human trafficking, Kraft Heinz seeks to procure palm oil products in an ethical, transparent, responsible and sustainable manner. Although we use only a small amount of palm oil globally, we are committed to
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Nestlé and Sime Darby Plantation launch worker helpline to
The robust helpline is the first of its kind in the palm oil sector and it builds on previous work in the manufacturing sector in Malaysia. It also utilizes ELEVATE’s cutting edge Laborlink mobile worker survey platform, which aims to assess actual and potential human rights risk, deliver mitigation plans, and track effectiveness of actions
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The Consumer Goods Forum and Fair Labor Association
A new report from the Fair Labor Association (FLA), commissioned by The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Palm Oil Working Group, seeks to understand the forced labour risks across the sector in both countries and examine the role that consumer goods companies can play in bringing an end to the issue. Indicators of forced labour
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Norway Refuses to Assess NBIM’s Financial Link to Forced
Six months after receiving a complaint that Norges Bank Investment Management’s holdings of Daewoo International supports forced labor, Norway’s National Contact Point (NCP) for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) decided to
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The Consumer Goods Forum and Fair Labor Association
A new report from the Fair Labor Association (FLA), commissioned by The Consumer Goods Forum's (CGF) Palm Oil Working Group, seeks to understand the forced labour risks across the sector in
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The Consumer Goods Forum and Fair Labor Association
The Consumer Goods Forum and Fair Labor Association Call for Greater Collaboration to Tackle Forced Labour Issues in Palm Oil Industry. The Consumer Goods Forum and Fair Labor Association Call for
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Taking Stock: Labor Exploitation, Illegal Fishing
The risk assessment was score-based and assigned points to individual workers based on the data collected. The preliminary findings of the risk assessments suggested some workers were at high risk of forced labor, but ILRF could not draw any definitive conclusions due to issues with some survey questions and a lack of clarity on certain
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Bali Process Business Leaders in top quartile of 2024 Food
From the tomatoes in our salad to the coffee we drink every day, the food and beverages we consume could be produced with forced labor. The food & beverage sector is at risk of forced labor. Workers in the agricultural sector tend to be isolated in remote work environments like farms or boats and are particularly vulnerable to exploitation.
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MUFG Sets Sustainable Finance Goals and Revises
F) Transactions involving the use of child labor or forced labor (2) Restricted Transactions Restricted transactions consist of cross-sector items and sector specific items. For transactions where the conditions listed below may exist, the potential that environmental and social risks or impacts may exist is considered to be high and
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assess and document risks and impacts in its primary supply chain when there is the potential for child/forced labor or significant safety issues. The requirements set out in Performance Standard 2 are in part guided by a number of international conventions and instruments, including those of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the
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Eritrea: Mining Investors Risk Use of Forced Labor
The 29-page report, “Hear No Evil: Forced Labor and Corporate Responsibility in Eritrea’s Mining Sector,” describes how mining companies working in Eritrea risk involvement with the
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PALM OIL PROCESSING
3. PALM OIL PROCESSING 3. 1 General processing description. Research and development work in many disciplines biochemistry, chemical and mechanical engineering and the establishment of plantations, which provided the opportunity for large-scale fully mechanised processing, resulted in the evolution of a sequence of processing steps designed to extract, from a harvested oil palm bunch, a
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5 Biggest Risks Faced by Oil and Gas Companies
In this article, we'll look at the biggest risks faced by oil and gas companies. Political Risk The primary way that politics can affect oil is in the regulatory sense, but it's not necessarily
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Human Rights PepsiCo
This training was designed to raise awareness and provide employees with a detailed understanding of how human rights are relevant for businesses, PepsiCo’s salient human rights issues and key risks, such as forced labor, and the role they can play in helping advance respect for human rights throughout our value chain. Moving forward, we plan
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Civil Society calls on the World Bank to address human
In a third instance where the World Bank has abdicated its responsibility for carrying out quality assessments prior to project approval, the IFC granted a loan to Corporación Dinant—a palm oil and food corporation in Honduras. The CAO audited the project in 2013, after reports of violence, death and alleged forced evictions of farmers by
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Three Sectors, Three Years Later: Progress and Gaps in the
In 2024, this effort was repeated and expanded to 119 companies. KnowTheChain views its role as both providing an evidence-based barometer for assessing corporate practice and as a resource to companies and investors for improved policy and action to address forced labor risks in global supply chains. This report is an opportunity to serve both
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