Liberia: Rubber workers charge slave-like conditions.
16th Dec 2005, 16:07 GMT
The multinational company Bridgestone Firestone, is embroiled in a controversy over its alleged use of child labour and toxic pesticides and fertilisers at Firestone's giant rubber plantation outside the capital, Monrovia.
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