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PARIS and KUALA LUMPUR, 20th October 2022 – The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) Human Rights Coalition – Working to End Forced Labour (HRC) has launched its People Positive Palm (P3) Project, designed to drive collaboration between consumer goods companies and palm oil suppliers in Malaysia to address the issue of forced labour in the Malaysian palm oil sector. The project was launched during a series of meetings and workshops in Kuala Lumpur, where HRC members, 13 participating Malaysian palm oil suppliers, and other stakeholders met to kickstart the project.

In an historic moment on 21 March 2022, the Malaysian Government through the Minister of Human Resources, Datuk Seri M. Saravanan delivered its…

Uzbekistan has succeeded in eradicating systemic forced labour and systemic child labour, according to new findings from ILO.

Almost two million people are recruited every year for the annual cotton harvest in Uzbekistan. The country has succeeded in eradicating forced and child labour during the 2021 cotton production cycle, according to new ILO findings.