Sign this petition re: abuse of workers on palm oil plantations

P&G should address longstanding labor abuses in its palm oil supply chains and ensure workers rights are fully respected.

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Dear MoveOn member,

A 16-year-old girl working on palm oil plantations in Indonesia told the Associated Press that her boss took her to a remote part of the estate and suddenly grabbed her arm and started pawing her breasts, throwing her to the jungle floor. Then he held the ax to her throat, spit on her, and raped her. "He threatened to kill me," she said softly. "He threatened to kill my whole family."¹

This story is just one of many in which women working on palm oil plantations are enduring horrific working conditions—from working without pay to exposure to toxic pesticides to rape. And Procter & Gamble, like many other beauty brands has dirty hands as it sources from producers that exploit workers through human trafficking and forced labor. Rainforest Action Network (RAN) investigations found that labor abuses regularly occur even on plantations that supply mills bearing the GreenPalm stamp for sustainable palm oil.

Sign the petition demanding Procter & Gamble urgently address human rights abuses.

Procter & Gamble continues to fuel deforestation and human rights abuses through its supply chains despite pledges to end deforestation, climate emissions and human rights abuses.

P&G should address longstanding labor abuses in its palm oil supply chains and ensure workers rights are fully respected.

Procter & Gamble puts palm oil and its derivatives in everything from their Gillette shave gel to Pantene shampoo and Oil of Olay face cream.

Procter & Gamble says it is committed to respecting labor rights and it will not use forced labor in its palm oil supply chain, but its biggest palm oil supplier has been repeatedly exposed for using forced labor for more than five years. Even the U.S. government is blocking shipments from that exact company for this reason! 

If we expose a global giant like Procter & Gamble and make them shift big-time, it will send ripple effects through the industry, and others will follow suit. 

Click here to sign the petition calling on Procter & Gamble to end workers abuses on palm oil plantations.

Thanks!

—Danielle Carrillo, Rainforest Action Network

Source:

1. "Rape, abuses in palm oil fields linked to top beauty brands," Associated Press, November 24, 2020
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