Pursuant to the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005, the US Department of Labor has released a list of 122 goods from 58 countries that are produced by forced labor or child labor.  Included in the list is rubber from Liberia.
To see a PDF of the list, please click here.
For background on the list, [...]

Read the new report online here!
The International Labor Rights Forum has released a new report about labor rights abuses on the Firestone plantation in Liberia.  This report shows how Firestone has violated all of the fundamental labor rights as recognized by the International Labor Organization in its Liberia operations.  Additionally, the report explains how child [...]

When Liberia finally emerged from years of civil war, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was established to “promote national peace, security, unity and reconciliation” and to investigate human rights violations that occurred.  On July 1, 2009, the TRC released its final report which is available online here.  Throughout the report, the TRC mentions [...]

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 [...]