Big read: Rape, abuses in palm oil fields linked to top beauty brands

By Margie Mason and Robin McDowell
AP·
21 mins to read
Big read: Rape, abuses in palm oil fields linked to top beauty brands
A female worker sprays herbicide in a palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo / AP

With his hand clamped tightly over her mouth, she could not scream, the 16-year-old girl recalls – and no one was around to hear her anyway. She describes how her boss raped her amid the tall trees on an Indonesian palm oil plantation that feeds into some of the world's

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