Multinational corporation Unilever (who owns Ben & Jerry's) hired private security to brutally put down a strike in S. Africa (rubber bullets, pepper spray, paintballs).
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1382310019811708932
An editor of Sri Lanka's Cosmopolitan refused to promote skin whiteners for Unilever. Unilever put pressure on her + asked Cosmopolitan to fire her.
Unilever dumped toxic mercury in the South Indian hilltown of Kodaikanal.
Unilever has Ethical Consumer's worst rating for animal testing.
Unilever was cited by BreakFreeFromPlastic as one of the top ten global plastic polluters.
One of Unilever's palm oil suppliers was accused of clearing forest for plantations, an activity that threatened a primate species, Miss Waldron's red colobus.
According to an Amnesty International report published in 2016, Unilever's palm oil supplier Wilmar International profited from child labor and forced labor. Some workers were extorted, threatened or not paid for work. Some workers suffered severe injuries from banned chemicals.
Israel's Health Minister, Yakov Litzman, threatened to pull Unilever's licence in Israel. He accused Unilever of lying to his ministry regarding salmonella-infected breakfast cereals. In 2016 it was reported that contamination may have been sourced in pigeon feces.
African Unilever workers that said they had to bribe supervisors to stop them from unwanted sexual advances.
Unilever is a member of the World Economic Forum.
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