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Eritrea: Eritreans Hopeful After 'Historic' Canadian Ruling
New Frame, 27 March 2020
The door to justice has finally opened for Eritrean refugees who say they were subjected to inhumane treatment while working at a Canadian mine in their home country. Read more »
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Eritrea: Canadian Firm Can Be Sued for Alleged Abuses
HRW, 5 March 2020
Canada's Supreme Court has just ruled that a Canadian mining company which had operations in Eritrea can be sued in Canada for alleged abuses abroad. The ruling, made last Friday,… Read more »
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Eritrea: Forced Labour Built Canadian Mine in Test Case - Former Official
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 17 September 2015
Hundreds of men drafted into Eritrea's army were used as forced labour to build a Canadian company's copper-gold mine in central Eritrea, according to a former construction… Read more »
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Eritrea: Eritrea Govt, Canadian Firm Used Forced Labour to Construct a Gold Mine
Sudan Tribune, 18 January 2013
A Canadian mining company has failed to stop serious human rights abuses against Eritrean employees working at a gold-mining exploitation project, a new report by Human Rights… Read more »
Eritreans Hopeful After Historic Ruling on Canadian Mine Abuses
Eritrean refugees have found rare hope in a Canadian Supreme Court ruling allowing them to continue with a lawsuit against a Canadian mining company allegedly complicit in human rights abuses and forced labour in Eritrea, according to New Frame.
When Nevsun began building its Bisha mine in Eritrea in 2008 it failed to conduct human rights due diligence activity and had only limited human rights safeguards in place, HRW said in a 2013 report.
