{"id":130,"date":"2014-12-19T20:47:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T20:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=130"},"modified":"2014-12-20T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T18:52:08","slug":"uk-legislators-call-for-an-end-to-forced-labour-in-eritrea-mines-cecilia-jamasmie-december-19-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2014\/12\/19\/uk-legislators-call-for-an-end-to-forced-labour-in-eritrea-mines-cecilia-jamasmie-december-19-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"UK legislators call for an end to forced labour in Eritrea mines Cecilia Jamasmie | December 19, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/uk-legislators-call-for-an-end-to-forced-labour-in-eritrea-mines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-812019\" title=\"UK legislators call for an end to forced labour in Eritrea mines\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/uk-legislators-call-for-an-end-to-forced-labour-in-eritrea-mines.jpg\" alt=\"UK legislators call for an end to forced labour in Eritrea mines\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forty one members of the British Parliament have signed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/edm\/2014-15\/544\">an early day motion<\/a> that seeks to eliminate \u201cslavery-like\u201d working conditions in Eritrea\u2019s mines, which they say it the main cause for over 5,000 people fleeing the country every month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote pqRight\"><p>According to the legislators, international mining companies \u2014mainly from Australia, Canada and the U.K\u2014 are using the forced labour of Eritreans for work in their operations under conditions best described as \u201cabject slavery.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\">According to the legislators, international mining companies \u2014mainly from Australia, Canada and the U.K\u2014 are using the forced labour of Eritreans for work in their operations under conditions best described as \u201cabject slavery.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last month Canadian miner Nevsun Resources (TSX:NSU)\u00a0became the latest target of a human-rights violations lawsuit. This one that claims the Vancouver-based company\u2019s Bisha copper and gold mine was built using \u201cforced\u201d labourers who faced the threat of torture by the Eritrean government. The company denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The MPs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2014\/dec\/19\/western-firms-reduce-eritrean-miners-to-abject-slavery-uk-mps-say\">reports <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, have also asked Eritrean authorities to allow\u00a0Sheila Keetharuth, the UN\u2019s special rapporteur on human rights in the African nation to assess claims of widespread rights violations. She has not been allowed to enter Eritrea since her appointment in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights conditions in Eritrea are \u201cdismal\u201d with indefinite military service, torture, arbitrary detention and restrictions on freedom of expression driving a refugee exodus, <em>Human Rights Watch<\/em> said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/world-report\/2014\/country-chapters\/eritrea\" target=\"_blank\">in its World Report 2014.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forced labour, slavery, torture, cruel or degrading <a id=\"FALINK_6_0_5\" class=\"FAtxtL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/uk-legislators-call-for-an-end-to-forced-labour-in-eritrea-mines-84561\/#\">treatment<\/a> and crimes against humanity are prohibited under international law, and such provisions are also incorporated into Canadian law<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.mining.com\/uk-legislators-call-for-an-end-to-forced-labour-in-eritrea-mines-84561\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty one members of the British Parliament have signed an early day motion that seeks to eliminate \u201cslavery-like\u201d working conditions in Eritrea\u2019s mines, which they say it the main cause for over 5,000 people fleeing the country every month. According to the legislators, international mining companies \u2014mainly from Australia, Canada and the U.K\u2014 are using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ml_titleColor":"#000000","_ml_titleFont":"Roboto","_ml_titleFontSize":1.1359999999999998987476601541857235133647918701171875,"_ml_titleFontWeight":"400","_ml_titleLineHeight":1.3000000000000000444089209850062616169452667236328125,"_ml_metaColor":"#708090","_ml_metaFont":"Montserrat","_ml_metaFontSize":0.67849999999999999200639422269887290894985198974609375,"_ml_metaFontWeight":"400","_ml_metaLineHeight":0.92000000000000003996802888650563545525074005126953125,"_ml_bodyColor":"#a9a9a9","_ml_bodyFont":"Open Sans","_ml_bodyFontSize":0.84999999999999997779553950749686919152736663818359375,"_ml_bodyFontWeight":"400","_ml_bodyLineHeight":1.1999999999999999555910790149937383830547332763671875,"_ml_wooPriceColor":"#666","_ml_wooPriceFont":"Open Sans","_ml_wooPriceFontSize":0.90000000000000002220446049250313080847263336181640625,"_ml_wooPriceFontWeight":"400","_ml_wooPriceLineHeight":1.270000000000000017763568394002504646778106689453125,"_ml_headingColor":"#000","_ml_headingFont":"Merriweather","_ml_headingFontSize":2.020000000000000017763568394002504646778106689453125,"_ml_headingFontWeight":"700","_ml_headingLineHeight":1.4699999999999999733546474089962430298328399658203125,"_mlglobal_userfontcolors":{"headingColorUser":[],"titleColorUser":[],"metaColorUser":[],"bodyColorUser":[],"wooPriceColorUser":[]},"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UK legislators call for an end to forced labour in Eritrea mines Cecilia Jamasmie | December 19, 2014 - UNITED ERITREA MEDIA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UK legislators call for an end to forced labour in Eritrea mines Cecilia Jamasmie | December 19, 2014 - UNITED ERITREA MEDIA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Forty one members of the British Parliament have signed an early day motion that seeks to eliminate \u201cslavery-like\u201d working conditions in Eritrea\u2019s mines, which they say it the main cause for over 5,000 people fleeing the country every month. 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