s mines risk complicity in gross human rights violations unless they take effective steps to ensure that no forced labour is used in connection with their operations, Human Rights Watch warned on Tuesday. In a report examining the operations of Nevsun Resources , Human Rights Watch said it found that the small Canadian company was obliged to used a state-owned contractor, Segen Construction Company,...
er Sheva, Tel Aviv or any Israeli community." Israel was repatriating migrants to their countries of origin, he said. "For several months now, hundreds of infiltrators have been leaving here … and thousands will soon do so every month until the tens of thousands of people who are here illegally return to their countries of origin." More than 9,000 migrants were deported in 2012, including almost...
s worst jailers of the press - each made extensive use of vague anti-state laws to silence dissenting political views, including those expressed by ethnic minorities. Overall, anti-state charges such as terrorism, treason, and subversion were the most common allegations brought against journalists in 2012. At least 132 journalists were being held around the world on such charges. Eritrea and Syria...
A search in underway in Uganda after 18 members of the Eritrean football team went missing whilst playing a regional competition ...
s refusal to allow entry to group 'begging for their lives' Israeli soldiers are refusing to allow entry to a group of about 20 Eritrean refugees trapped for six days between Egyptian land and a high steel fence that Israel has erected along its southern border. Despite high temperatures and lack of shade, the soldiers have been instructed to provide only limited quantities of water. The Israeli interior...