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EU Should Address Human Rights Risks to Achieve Deforestation-Free Supply Chains

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Land clearing for oil palm plantations area is seen from above in Borneo, Malaysia on September 11, 2019. © 2019 Sutanta Aditya/Shutterstock We’re standing on a ledge overlooking a vast expanse of oil palm trees while crickets chirp and swallows dart overhead. Balang (pseudonym) is describing how his Indigenous Penan community lost everything when their forest was bulldozed to give way to the plantation below. “We didn’t agree, we didn’t sign anything,” he emphasized. Once self-sufficient hunters and gatherers in Malaysian Borneo, the bountiful land that supported…

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