Source: Human Rights Watch Court Ruling Means Mining Company Faces Lawsuit for Alleged Forced Labor Laetitia Bader Senior Researcher, Africa…
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Tag: National Service
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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Human Rights Watch full report on Sawa and National Service
“They Are Making Us into Slaves, Not Educating Us” How Indefinite Conscription Restricts Young People’s Rights: Access to Education in…
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BBC: Testimonies from SAWA conscripts – what indefinite National Service really means in Eritrea
First hand testimonies from young Eritreans.
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Eritrea: Round-ups increase as youths refuse to go to national service
Source: BBC Tigrinya Service A new wave of round-ups of youth, so called ‘Giffas’, is under way in Eritrea. The…
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Eritreans issue legal challenge to EU over forced labour projects
Eritreans living in the Netherlands are issuing a summons against the European Union for aid which they say will involve…
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The critical Canada – Nevsun case: all documents
This week former Eritrean miners brought a case against Nevsun in the Canadian Supreme Court. They accuse the company of…
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