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Palm Oil: Global brands profiting from child and forced labour. The world’s most popular food and household companies are selling food, cosmetics and other everyday staples containing palm oil tainted by shocking human rights abuses in Indonesia, with children as young as eight working in hazardous conditions, said Amnesty International in a new report published today.

Palm Oil: Global brands profiting from child and forced labour

The report, The great palm oil scandal: Labour abuses behind big brand names, investigates palm oil plantations in Indonesia run by the world’s biggest palm oil grower, Singapore-based agri-business Wilmar, tracing palm oil to nine global firms: AFAMSA, ADM, Colgate-Palmolive, Elevance, Kellogg’s, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser and Unilever.

Corporate giants like Colgate, Nestlé and Unilever assure consumers that their products use 'sustainable palm oil', but our findings reveal that the palm oil is anything but. "Companies are turning a blind eye to exploitation of workers in their supply chain. Systematic abuses in supply chain of major firms. Is China tougher on foreign firms? Rocking the establishment: Thomas Piketty's challenge to orthodox economics. Rebel, radical,and even rock star – words not usually associated with economists, but they do seem to stick to Frenchman Thomas Piketty, who shot to fame with his work Capital in the 21st Century, a lengthy work on inequality.

Rocking the establishment: Thomas Piketty's challenge to orthodox economics

In this edition of Global Conversation Isabelle Kumar speaks to him about his vision of economics and society in an age of austerity. Who is Thomas Piketty? Thomas Piketty is a French economist He specialises in wealth and inequality Piketty has authored numerous books and articles His book Capital in the 21st Century propelled him to worldwide fame He is currently professor at the Paris School of Economics Isabelle Kumar “Your discourse on inequality really has hit a nerve and your book ‘Capital’ seems a lot more popular than one could have expected – did that surprise you?”

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