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...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Giant sportswear companies have been accused of foul play ahead of football's World Cup finals in Germany next month by the international aid group Oxfam for their treatment of Asian factory workers. An Oxfam report found that Asian factory workers making the clothes, shoes and other apparel that will be showcased at the world's biggest sporting event have been sacked or threatened with violence when they have organised unions to lobby for better pay and conditions.

The report said an Indonesian factory supplying shoes for the world's top

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."