Publications

Petition to Remove Guatemala from the List of Beneficiary Developing Countries Under the Generalized System of Preferences

Publication Date: 

December 13, 2004

Petition submitted by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project (USLEAP) before the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on December 13, 2004, to remove Guatemala from the list of beneficiary developing countries under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and from the list of beneficiary countries under the Caribbean Basic Economic Recovery Act (CBI).

SITUACIÓN Y CONDICIONES DE LA AGROINDUSTRIA PIÑERA EN COSTA RICA

Publication Date: 

December 1, 2004

Una cuidadosa lectura al contexto socioeconómico costarricense de los últimos años da cuenta del cambio experimentado por un modelo, que en esencia ha pasado de estar orientado al mercado interno a ser dinamizado y fortalecido para insertar al país al mercado mundial. En este marco, las actividades de exportación recibieron un fuerte impulso y al interior de estas, un conjunto de productos agrícolas denominados no tradicionales se erigieron en estrellas de un firmamento productivo volcado sin reparos a conquistar los mercados internacionales.

Diagnostic Situation and Conditions in the Pineapple Industry in Costa Rica

Publication Date: 

December 1, 2004

Pineapple production in the Atlantic and South Pacific Regions of Costa Rica: Characteristics, organization, and labor conditions

A careful reading of the Costa Rican socio-economic context of the past several years reveals the change from a model oriented towards the internal market, to a model aimed at inserting the country into the world market. In this context, export activities were strongly promoted,

Study of labor laws and obstacles to compliance in El Salvador

Publication Date: 

April 1, 2004

Vea la Reporte en Espanol

Part of a Series of Reports by the International Labor Rights Fund on Fundamental Labor Rights in Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean

Summary

This report, commissioned by ILRF in El Salvador in 2003, found evidence of the following labor rights violations in summary:

Right to Associate

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