Eritrea: Mining Investors Risk Use of Forced Labor - Canadian Firm Failed to Adequately Address Issue

Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC), 15 January 2013

International mining firms rushing to invest in Eritrea's burgeoning minerals sector risk involvement in serious abuses unless they take strong preventive measures. The failure of the Vancouver-based company Nevsun Resources to ensure that forced labour would not be used during construction of its Eritrea mine, and its limited ability to deal with forced labor allegations when they arose, ...