Additionally, it should be noted that companies exert great pressure on the Professional Risk Insurance (Aseguradora de Riesgos Profesionales -ARP), so that they do not recognize a score according to the real needs of worker’s injury or illness. At the same time, the ARP finds this convenient because such a certification means a great cost. Thus, they complicate the situation by losing the correspondence from the ARP, or by assigning an incorrect score or even attributing mistaken injuries and in most cases, declaring that the injury is part of a degenerative disease.

While the current class action lawsuit against Firestone is still pending, the time has come to strengthen Liberia’s civil society. Brownell stated the implications of these cases are great – “when you take a company to court, you cause the country to believe in the spirit of the law.” One of the many challenges that exist is creating a trickle-down effect of information to the rubber plantation workers so that they have the educational tools to be empowered.

Last year, DC city government began efforts to reform the current system used
to purchase goods and services for the District, known more formally as the
system of contracting and procurement.  Every year the city spends millions,
sometimes billions, of dollars (primarily tax payer dollars) to purchase, or
procure, the goods and services needed to keep the city up and running.   Early
this year, Councilmember Mary Cheh introduced the “Omnibus Procurement Reform
Amendment Act of 2010” and shortly after the administration introduced its own bill known as the

It resulted from the combined effects of authoritarian control and the liberalization policy. Despite its republic appearance, Egypt is an authoritarian state. The government exerts very restrictive control over civil society. Even though Egypt ratified core ILO conventions decades ago as listed in the following table, words have not been transformed into action. For instance, the government continues to suppress workers’ rights such as freedom of association and the right to organize and collective bargain. All NGOs are required to register with the Ministry of Social Solidarity. Permission from the Ministry of the Interior is required for any public meetings, and rarely given.