At long last, 11-member Pacific trade deal takes effect

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63. Really...Malaysia was allowed to be part of the TPP ....there was a big argument about it because

they are a slave owning country complete with slave camps...this is not Russian talking point. And if one has to deny the truth about the TPP and blame Russians, it shows how bad this agreement is.

"The governments in Malaysia and Indonesia rely on palm oil to stimulate economic development, providing little financial incentive for government crackdowns on the industrie’s use of forced labor. Meanwhile laborers face harsh and dangerous working conditions with little to no access to justice.

Workers struggle to survive and sustain their families as plantation owners pay them little to no wages. Palm oil producers often utilize financial punishments when employees make mistakes or fail to meet arbitrary work targets. Laborers interviewed by Amnesty International admitted to needing to make their children and spouses join them in the fields to meet targets for work to avoid these financial consequences.

Children involved in palm oil production are made to carry large loads of heavy fruit, weed fields, and spend hours every day bent over collecting fruit from the plantation floor. Heat exhaustion as well as cuts and bruises from climbing thorny palms are commonplace. To avoid being culpable for profiting from child labor, companies do not officially recognize children as laborers and the children receive little or no pay for their grueling work." Malaysia should never have been allowed in until the issue of slavery was addressed...child slavery no less.


https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/blog/slavery-palm-oil-industry