Malaysian Palm Oil Giant Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad (KLK) Adopts New Sustainability Standards
Rainforest Action Network responds to the announcement, calling it a “critical milestone” San Francisco, CA – After facing years of public criticism and campaigning from civil society, Malaysian palm oil…
Palm Oil Giant Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad (KLK) Plagued By Ongoing Conflict and Exploitation, New Progress Report Finds
Report sets six month timeline for KLK to resolve cases and calls on KLK’s customers and financiers to cut all ties if the company does not FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE…
Cargill’s Latest Trade in Conflict Palm Oil
Over the past months, we’ve been working on a report profiling Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad (KLK), one of the most notorious producers of Conflict Palm Oil on the planet. We…
Thank You
You know what I’m thankful for this year? You. Everything RAN has accomplished this past year is thanks to you. Please don’t think for a second that I’m just saying…
Questions for Cargill
An article released by Bloomberg Businessweek on July 18 found Cargill supplier KLK to be engaging in forced and child labor practices. The article tells of workers and children being…
BREAKING: Despite New Evidence, Cargill Denies Its Palm Oil Is Made By Slave Laborers
Here’s the last line of a Bloomberg Businessweek article out today that exposes the human rights abuses rampant in Indonesia’s palm oil sector: “Adam, the 19-year-old who fled the PT…
RAN Issues Statement in Response to False Palm Oil Claims by Cargill
Last week, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) contacted Cargill employees in over 20 countries to alert them to the company’s ties to rainforest destruction and orangutan extinction. The email urged employees…
How Cargill is Saving Humanity… and the World
If you made $5 billion clearing a community’s forest and community food garden, polluted and drained their rivers, but gave them a tree and a bucket of clean water in…
Girl Scouts USA Announces Palm Oil Plan for Thin Mints: Greenwash or Game-Changer?
After four years of savvy campaigning by Girl Scout activists Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen, Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) has finally acknowledged its role in rainforest destruction by releasing a…
Cargill Exposed: A Trail Of Human Rights Abuses
Much like the story with palm oil suppliers IOI and KLK, Cargill is again implicated in serious human rights abuses through it’s palm oil supplier Wilmar. News of yet another…