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The Use of Forced Labour at the Colluli Potash Project in Eritrea

The systematic stripping of Eritrea’s mineral resources continues. It is not enough for the Eritrean government to give foreign companies such as Nevsun 60% ownership of the Bisha Mining, which has benefited the president and a handful of cohorts, but has yet to trickle down to…

ERITREA FOR SALE – TO THE RUSSIANS!

The Eritrean government has become so isolated and desperate that it has tried to sell its precious gold resources to Russia – at any price. Sanctions have hurt the financial position of this government so much that the only way they could try to get support…

HRCE’s Statement on the African Asylum Seekers in Israel

Human Rights Concern – Eritrea, condemns the brutal handling of the African asylum-seekers by the Israel Police on Sunday 29 June 2014. On Friday 27 June, the asylum seekers walked out of Holot detention center in protest of their illegal detention and headed towards the Egyptian…

Letter to the President of the Federal States of Somalia

The letter below to the Somalian President was written in June 2013. Following last week’s adoption of a resolution to establish a Commission of Inquiry, to investigate the human rights violations by the government of Eritrea since the independence. I have decided to repost it.

Eritrea: HRC Must Establish a Commission of Inquiry

25 June 2014 We the undersigned are writing to call on the UN’s Human Rights Council to establish a Commission of Inquiry on the human rights situation in Eritrea given the ongoing gross and systematic human rights violations being committed by the government of Eritrea against…