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<br>Workers exposed to pesticides at a UK-funded company in the Democratic Republic of Congo have suffered ending up being impotent, a rights group has stated.<br>
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<br>Feronia, which controls DR [Congo's palm-oil](https://inp-02.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=free&wr_id=22825) sector, had stopped working to provide workers appropriate equipment, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.<br>
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<br>The UK government's advancement bank, CDC, owns 38% of Feronia in DR Congo.<br>
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<br>Feronia, a Canadian-based firm, said it was devoted to operating to worldwide standards.<br>
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<br>PHC has received countless dollars from the development banks of Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.<br>
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<br>These banks can play a crucial function promoting development, however they are sabotaging their mission by failing to ensure the business they finance respects the rights of its employees and neighborhoods on the plantations, [HRW scientist](http://bauen-home.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=free&wr_id=71682) Luciana Téllez-Chávez stated.<br>
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<br>Many [also] suffered from skin inflammation, itchiness, blisters, eye issues, or blurred vision - all symptoms that are constant with what scientific texts and the products' labels refer to as health repercussions of exposure to these pesticides, the rights group added.<br>
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<br>Ms Téllez-Chávez said workers who had been talked to had permeable cotton overalls - not the water resistant overalls.<br>
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<br>If pesticides inadvertently spilled, the toxic liquid would likely touch their skin, she included.<br>
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<br>What else does HRW say?<br>
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<br>At the Yaligimba plantation, the business disposed the waste from its palm oil mill beside workers' homes.<br>
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<br>Residents of a village of a number of hundred individuals downstream told us the river was their only source of drinking water, Ms Téllez-Chávez stated.<br>
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<br>If untreated and without treatment, effluent-dumping could ultimately also cause fish to suffocate and pass away, or cause big growths of algae that could negatively affect the health of people who entered contact with polluted water or taken in tainted fish, HRW included.<br>
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<br>The rights group also implicated Feronia of paying extreme poverty incomes, stating females were the lowest-paid, with some earning as low as $7.30 a month event fruit.<br>
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<br>In a declaration, CDC stated: Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) is a natural mix of natural waste oils and fats and has actually been discharged into rivers because the plantation entered remaining in 1911 and does not threaten human health.<br>
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<br>It is the aim of the company to build treatment plants for POME, but is regrettably not in a monetary position to do so currently as it continues to make heavy losses.<br>
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<br>In addition, the company has actually refurbished or dug 72 brand-new boreholes for the provision of tidy water in the last 6 years.<br>
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<br>What does Feronia state?<br>
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<br>The company said working conditions had enhanced substantially since the involvement of the European banks in 2013.<br>
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<br>Employees were now paid considerably more than the minimum wage for farming in DR Congo and the typical worker made $3.30 per day - greater than what a local teacher would make, it said.<br>
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<br>It also validated that it had invested substantially in access to safe drinking water.<br>
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