‘It was inappropriate for a British Columbia judge to determine the legality of a sovereign state’s conduct’ – Nevsun Resources BY SUSAN TAYLOR | REUTERS Nevsun Resources Ltd is appealing to Canada’s Supreme Court to throw out a lower court ruling which allowed Eritrean workers, who say they were forced to work at its mine, […]
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BY MARTIN SCHIBBYE | BLANKSPOT * Mining Engineer Clas Lindström worked for Bisha Mining in Eritrea during the same period that three workers claim they had to work in the mine against their will. He remembers an unusual plant, but did not see any signs of slavery.
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Nevsun loses bid to stop Canadian lawsuit over forced labor claims in Bisha mine BY TESFA NEWS * A British Columbia court in Canada today rejected an appeal by Nevsun Resources Ltd that sought to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a number of Eritrean workers who allege they were forced to work at Nevsun’s Bisha […]
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By Nevsun, Nevsun Resources Ltd. advises that the British Columbia Supreme Court has refused to permit a claim against Nevsun to proceed as a common law class action. The court did permit the lawsuit by the three named plaintiffs to continue. Today’s court decision addresses only preliminary legal challenges to the action raised by Nevsun. […]
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By Allison Martell and Edmund Blair | for Reuters, Bemnet Negash never got to say a proper goodbye to his family. In February 2006, government officials arrived at his school in the highlands of Eritrea and put him and his classmates on a bus to a military training camp. He was 20 years old, and […]
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By Ministry of Foreign Affairs, THE Commission of Inquiry and Special Rapporteur (SR) appointed as special mandate-holders to assess the human rights situation in Eritrea have released two parallel reports. As well-meaning as their initial mandates may appear before members of the Human Rights Council (HRC), it appears that the record and evidence regarding both […]
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By US State Department, ETHIOPIA is a source and, to a lesser extent, destination and transit country for men, women, and children who are subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Girls from Ethiopia’s rural areas are exploited in domestic servitude and, less frequently, prostitution within the country, while boys are subjected to forced labor […]
Continue Reading“Mining is a major sector in Eritrea, but we would like to make sure that Eritrea does not become a one-sector economy“-Woldai Futur By Jenny Vaughan (AFP), BISHA, Eritrea — In a vast pit of red earth, white stone and green ponds, excavators unearth precious copper in Eritrea’s first large scale commercial mine. In its […]
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