Big Read: Palm oil labour abuses linked to world's top brands, banks

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Big Read: Palm oil labour abuses linked to world's top brands, banks
A little girl holds palm oil fruit collected from a plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo / AP

Jum's words tumble out over the phone, his voice growing ever more frantic.

Between sobs, he says he's trapped on a Malaysian plantation run by government-owned Felda, one of the world's largest palm oil companies. His boss confiscated and then lost his Indonesian passport, he says, leaving him vulnerable to

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