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Author:
Téllez-Chávez, Luciana, author.
Title:
A dirty investment : European development banks' link to abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo's palm oil industry / Luciana Téllez Chávez.
Publisher:
Human Rights Watch,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xii, 12, 95 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm
Subject:
Palm oil industry--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Palm oil industry--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Employees.
Industrial safety--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Pesticides--Health aspects--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Factory and trade waste--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Development banks--Europe.
Social responsibility of business.
Other Authors:
Human Rights Watch (Organization), issuing body.
Notes:
"November 2019"--Table of contents page. "This report was written by Luciana Téllez Chávez ... based on field research she conducted jointly with Timo Müller ... and Kaem Kapalata"--Page 88. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"This report documents that investment banks owned by Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom are failing to protect the rights of people working and living on three plantations they finance. Human Rights Watch found that Feronia and its subsidiary in Congo, Plantations et Huileries du Congo, S.A. (PHC), expose workers to dangerous pesticides, dump untreated industrial waste into local waterways, and engage in abusive employment practices that result in extreme poverty wages"--Publisher website, viewed January 8, 2020.
ISBN:
1623137829
9781623137823
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1135319623
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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