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The UK federal government's development bank, CDC, owns 38% of Feronia in DR Congo.
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It stated Feronia had invested heavily in protective equipment and all workers were required to use it.
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Feronia, a Canadian-based firm, said it was committed to running to global requirements.
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PHC has gotten countless dollars from the development banks of Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.
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"These banks can play a crucial role promoting development, however they are sabotaging their objective by stopping working to guarantee the company they finance appreciates the rights of its employees and communities on the plantations," HRW researcher Luciana Téllez-Chávez stated.
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What is HRW's proof?
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In a report entitled A Hazardous Mix of Abuses on Congo's Oil Palm Plantations, external, HRW said it had actually interviewed more than 40 workers and two-thirds of them "informed us that they had become impotent given that they began the task".
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"Many [also] experienced skin irritation, itchiness, blisters, eye issues, or blurred vision - all signs that are constant with what scientific texts and the products' labels explain as health consequences of direct exposure to these pesticides," the rights group included.
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"If pesticides accidentally spilled, the poisonous liquid would likely touch their skin," she included.
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The effluents formed a "foul-smelling stream", and eventually flowed into a natural pond where women and children shower and clean cooking utensils.
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"Residents of a village of numerous hundred people downstream informed us the river was their only source of drinking water," Ms Téllez-Chávez stated.
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In a statement, CDC said: "Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) is a natural mix of natural waste oils and fats and has actually been released into rivers since the plantation entered remaining in 1911 and does not threaten human health.
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"It is the goal of the company to build treatment plants for POME, but is regrettably not in a financial position to do so presently as it continues to make heavy losses.
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"In addition, the business has actually reconditioned or dug 72 brand-new boreholes for the arrangement of tidy water in the last six years."
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What does Feronia say?
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The company said working conditions had improved substantially because the involvement of the European banks in 2013.
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Employees were now paid substantially more than the minimum wage for farming in DR Congo and the average employee earned $3.30 each day - higher than what a regional teacher would earn, it said.
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