Body Shop drops supplier after report of peasant evictions in Colombia

The Body Shop is breaking commercial links with a major palm oil supplier in the wake of disclosures by the Observer that the company had pushed for the eviction of hundreds of peasants in Colombia to develop a new plantation.

This newspaper reported last September that Daabon Organic, which provided the cosmetics giant with 90% of all its palm oil, was part of a consortium that asked the courts to remove farmers from a ranch 200 miles (320km) north of the capital, Bogotá.

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