The Eritrean Military/National Service Programme: Slavery and the Notion of Persecution in Refugee Status Determination by Sara Palacios-Arapiles Forced Migration Unit,…
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Tag: National Service
BREAKING: Eritrea extends conscription to 16 year olds; trained or untrained
This brief message has been received from inside Eritrea. “All families have been asked to hand in their children from…
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Eritrea Busses Thousands of Students to Military Camp
Government Ignores its own Covid-19 Restrictions Source: Human Rights Watch Government Ignores its own Covid-19 Restrictions Laetitia Bader Director, Horn…
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Time to Act: End forced labour in Eritrea!
Divest from forced labor in Eritrea Source: Freedom United Call on foreign businesses and institutions to divest from forced labor…
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European aid for Eritrea involving “slave labour” challenged in two courts
Two court cases have been launched to contest European Union aid for Eritrea that employs National Service conscripts. The cases…
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Canadian Firm Can Be Sued for Alleged Eritrea Abuses
Source: Human Rights Watch Court Ruling Means Mining Company Faces Lawsuit for Alleged Forced Labor Laetitia Bader Senior Researcher, Africa…
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The Danish produce a useful report on Eritrea and refugees
This report – which includes an interview with members of Eritrea Focus – provides a useful insight into conditions inside…
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Norwegian press watchdog rejects pro-government Eritrean complaint
The background to this ruling was the report carried by NRK that members of the Eritrean diaspora went a meeting…
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Eritrea’s forced labour funded with EU funds?
Funded with EU funds? Source: Deutschlandfunk [Computer translation from German] The EU subsidizes a road construction project in Eritrea in…
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No peace for Eritrea’s long-suffering female conscripts
Source: Ethiopia Insight January 15, 2020 by Hiba Said Eritrea’s independence struggle was largely a model of gender equality. But those…
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