People living next to Firestone Natural Rubber Company’s plantation in Harbel, 45km outside of Liberia’s capital Monrovia, say pollution from the concession is destroying their health, ruining their livelihoods and even killing residents.
On 4 June parliamentarians called on the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to declare why the agency has not yet published [...]

[Please note that Dave Zirin is incorrectly identified as an International Labor Rights Forum staff member in this article. Zirin does NOT work at ILRF. He is an independent sports journalist. To read Zirin's article referenced here, please click here.]

The nation’s first major foreign investment, Firestone, has often stood accused of inflicting deadly injury [...]

By Samwar S. Fallah
Residents of about six towns few miles from Harbel, the headquarters of the largest rubber plantations company in Africa, Firestone are struggling with the situation of water pollution as the company discharges the huge wastes produced from the processing of raw rubber for export into nearby creeks used by local residents [...]

By Jame Butty
Nine months ago, the management of Firestone Rubber Plantation in Liberia and the workers union signed a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
Among the issues covered under the agreement was pay raise for the workers and the controversial high daily production requirement known as quota and child labor.
Now the workers say Firestone is [...]

Liberian Activists Speak Out!

For over 80 years, the Bridgestone Firestone tire company has owned the world’s largest rubber plantation in Liberia.  Child labor, widespread abuse of worker’s rights and environmental destruction have characterized the plantation for generations.  But workers and communities affected by Firestone’s abuses are fighting back.  Come hear [...]