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Rape, abuses in palm oil fields linked to top beauty brands

Rape, abuses in palm oil fields linked to top beauty brands

by Victoria Mba-Jonas | Feb 18, 2021 | 0 comments

SUMATRA, Indonesia (AP) — With his hand clamped tightly over her mouth, she could not scream, the 16-year-old girl recalls – and no one was around to hear her anyway. She describes how her boss raped her amid the tall trees on an Indonesian palm oil plantation that...
Child labor in palm oil industry tied to Girl Scout cookies

Child labor in palm oil industry tied to Girl Scout cookies

by Victoria Mba-Jonas | Feb 17, 2021 | 0 comments

They are two young girls from two very different worlds, linked by a global industry that exploits an army of children. Olivia Chaffin, a Girl Scout in rural Tennessee, was a top cookie seller in her troop when she first heard rainforests were being destroyed to make...

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