SPRING 2007
Web Exclusive — Rubber
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| In 2005, this 12-year-old tapped rubber trees on the Firestone plantation for $10 a month. Tappers walk to collection sites as far as an hour away carrying loads that can reach 150 lbs. Photo credit: UNMIL |
Photo Gallery: View photographer Michael Zumstein's
powerful photographs of the Firestone plantation in
Liberia.
Report: Human Rights in Liberia's Rubber Plantations:
Tapping into the Future (PDF), by United Nations Mission
in Liberia, May 2006.
Campaign: The Stop Firestone Campaign.