Del Monte seeks human rights boss after claims of violence

A vast Del Monte pineapple farm in Kenya that supplies most British supermarkets is advertising for a human rights manager after allegations of killings and violence by its security guards.

- Emily Dugan, Edwin Okoth

The job advert says the candidate will need to "develop a detailed action plan to address human rights challenges in the workplace and in surrounding communities".

Investigations by the Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism have uncovered allegations of multiple deaths and violence linked to Del Monte's guards.

Under pressure from supermarkets after the articles were published last year, the company commissioned a confidential human rights impact assessment (HRIA), whose highly critical findings were seen by the Guardian. It concluded that the farm was causing major human rights harms across multiple areas to its staff and people living in communities surrounding it.

The new role is one of a raft of changes in response to the recommendations by Partner Africa, the organisation that wrote the report.