Then one day her father made her ... know nothing else than work on a palm oil plantation,” said Kartika Manurung, who has published reports detailing labor issues on Indonesian plantations.

Global investigations reporters Robin McDowell and Margie Mason have long had a commitment to exposing labor abuse ... scraping by on a palm oil plantation. As the reporters wrote: “In some cases, an ...

With a huge labor shortage in the palm oil sector, they wondered: Were desperate men being tricked or sold to help harvest fruit that ends up in the supply chains of some of America’s most iconic food ...

Our appetite for the oil ... plantations have suffered in other ways. Human rights abuses such as child labor and forced evictions have been well documented. On the Indonesian island of Sumatra ...