Tell Companies Using Palm Oil to Stop Using Child Labor!

A report based a year-long investigation by Amnesty International has found that Wilmar, a firm responsible for 43 percent of the world's palm oil business, routinely does business with Indonesian palm tree plantations that employ laborers as young as eight.

Some accounts show that while many workers earn meager wages, some are given impossible quotas -- that, if not met, can result in already earned income being withheld.

By any account this is forced labor and a gross violation of labor and human rights.

Children are routinely tasked with heavy lifting, operating dangerous machinery or exposure to toxic chemicals used in processing palm fruits into oils found in nearly half of all consumer goods in the West.

A handful of companies, who together had a combined $325 billion revenue in 2015, purchase their palm oil from Wilmar: Colgate-Palmolive, Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Kellog, Elevance, Reckitt Benckiser, Archer Daniels Midland and Unilever.

Wilmar and these companies have a social responsibility to know where their goods are sourced from and to make sure they are not enabling abuse and exploitation.

Please add your name to tell them that you will not tolerate this any longer and that you stand with palm oil workers in Indonesia!