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Bridgestone-Firestone
1/14/07, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Slavery Persists
12/7/06, Foreign Policy in Focus: Stopping Firestone: Getting Rubber to Meet the Road
11/8/06, BBC News: Liberia’s Foreign Investment Challenge
10/16/06, Indianapolis Star: Demand dignity for Firestone workers in Liberia
8/30/06, Analyst (Monrovia, Liberia): UN to Help Repossess Another Rubber Plantation
7/26/06, StopFirestone Coalition: Special Delivery: Letters to Firestone in DC Area and in 36 States Highlight Company’s Abuses in Liberia
5/24/06, BBC News: Firestone in Liberia Rubber Row
5/9/06, Reuters: Liberia hands Firestone ultimatum on plantation
2/15/06, Reuters: Production Resumes at Firestone Liberia Rubber Plant
4/21/06, The Analyst (Monrovia): Exploitation in Liberia
12/30/05, SocialFunds.com: Lawsuit Alleges Slavery and Child Labor on Liberian Firestone Plantation
12/15/05, Inter Press Service: LIBERIA: Rubber Workers Charge Slave-Like Conditions 12/8/05, CorpWatch.org: LIBERIA: Firestone Sued Over "Slave" Plantation
12/6/05, Reuters: Workers talk of hardship at Liberia's Firestone
11/25/05, The Analyst Newspaper: 14,000 ‘Slaves’ Seek Relief
11/22/05, allafrica.com: Firestone in Trouble Again in US Court for Practicing Slavery
11/21/05, allafrica.com: Firestone Mirred in Slave Labor Charges in Liberia
11/18/05, The Age: Rights group accuses Bridgestone
11/12/05, CNN International: Is Bridgestone/Firestone Exploiting Liberian Workers?
— Chris Saeger, "Strengthening Rule of Law Through Aid for Human Rights Litigation in National Courts: A Case Study of Oil Multinational Corporations Complicit in Human Rights Violations in Sudan and Nigeria (December 2007)
— Terry Collingsworth, "Using the Alien Tort Claims Act to Introduce the Rule of Law to the Global Economy (2005)
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