Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble (P&G) is a U.S.-based multinational and one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, operating across household, beauty, and healthcare. With annual revenues exceeding $80 billion, its products reach billions of consumers in over 180 countries.

Investigations, including a 2021 Stand.earth report, have tied P&G’s pulp and palm oil supply chains to systemic environmental and human rights harms. These include destruction of Canada’s boreal forests, degradation of critical caribou habitat, refusal to uphold Free, Prior, and Informed Consent with Indigenous nations, and palm oil links to forced labor and land grabs in Indonesia and Malaysia, some severe enough to trigger U.S. import bans on suppliers. P&G has repeatedly resisted shareholder resolutions and NGO pressure demanding stronger sourcing standards.

The company also carries political complicity. P&G operates its “Israel House of Innovation” R&D hub in Tel Aviv (since 2007) and maintains formal collaborations with Hebrew University, embedding the corporation in Israel’s tech sector, which is directly tied to military and surveillance research.

Finally, P&G has faced major litigation and settlements over consumer and public health harms, from toxic chemicals in hair products and tampons to allegations of greenwashing its “sustainable” packaging.

Its global reach and entrenchment across daily-use goods make it a high-impact target: consumer spending here fuels environmental destruction, Indigenous rights violations, and political complicity in apartheid-linked economies.