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MEDIA RELEASE: RSPO unwilling to stop human rights abuses and deforestation in Alicorp's supply chain in the Peruvian Amazon

13 June, 2019

The global sustainable palm oil body, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), has definitively rejected a formal complaint brought against one of its members, Peru’s largest consumer goods company, Alicorp S.A.A., for sourcing palm oil produced on a plantation which the RSPO itself has previously condemned.

“An injustice without precedents.” - Peru

3 May, 2019

Amazonian Peoples Denounce Dispossession, Violence and Deforestation of Indigenous Territories at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Peruvian Vice Ministry of Culture: Strategic objectives and priorities of national palm oil plan will be consulted with Peru’s indigenous peoples

8 August, 2017

On the 7th August 2017 the Peruvian Vice Ministry of Culture issued a welcome clarification in response to a request from the Federation of native communities of Ucayali (FECONAU)