By Barry Lynn

Now may hardly seem the time to imagine a more global future, let alone do so with optimism. Most of us are hard pressed just to maintain the illusion that the present system is not breaking down, to deny with conviction what everyone knows - that the grand trade liberalisation project is, at best, on life support.

Gabriela Quiroz. Redactora

El Ecuador concentra su atención en la definición de cuáles son las formas específicas de trabajo peligroso, nocivo o riesgoso para los adolescentes. Varias acciones apuntan hacia ese objetivo.

La iniciativa arrancó con 14 talleres regionales y culminó el 10 de mayo con la consulta nacional, entre empresarios, trabajadores, jóvenes, organismos estatales...

By Caspar Leighton

Rubber tappers can collect up to six buckets of latex liquid in a day

Tyre maker Firestone has been accused of buying rubber from plantations that are illegally occupied by former combatants from Liberia's civil war.

It is one of three companies that the Liberian government and the United Nations have accused of profiting from the illegal rubber-tapping.

Their report says human rights are being violated at plantations across the West African country.

By Alphonso Toweh

MONROVIA - Liberia has given a 90-day ultimatum to the management of Bridgestone's Corp's Firestone rubber plantation to improve its workers' living conditions, Labor Minister Kofi Wood said.

"We have asked the Firestone management to improve the living conditions of the workers," Wood told Reuters late on Monday. "We have given them 90 days."