Conscription Affecting Eritrea's Education - Human Rights Watch

An 84-page Human Rights Watch report has claimed that Eritrea's use of secondary school to channel students into indefinite government service and its conscription of teachers amounts to forced labour, making young people flee the country.

A man from Eritrea walks along the road after leaving a Red Cross Caritas camp set up for migrants in the Italian border town of Ventimiglia, Italy, Oct. 13, 2016

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