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Eritrea: 41 British parliamentarians call for an end to forced labour in Eritrea
Early day motion 544
HUMAN RIGHTS IN ERITREA
- Session: 2014-15
- Date tabled: 24.11.2014
- Primary sponsor: Corbyn, Jeremy
- Sponsors:
- Teather, Sarah
- Evans, Nigel
- Lucas, Caroline
- Robertson, Angus
- Durkan, Mark
Total number of signatures: 41
| Abbott, Diane | Anderson, David | Blackman, Bob | Bottomley, Peter |
| Campbell, Ronnie | Caton, Martin | Corbyn, Jeremy | Cryer, John |
| Dowd, Jim | Durkan, Mark | Edwards, Jonathan | Evans, Nigel |
| George, Andrew | Godsiff, Roger | Hancock, Mike | Hermon, Lady |
| Hopkins, Kelvin | Huppert, Julian | Jackson, Glenda | Leech, John |
| Llwyd, Elfyn | Lucas, Caroline | McDonnell, Alasdair | McDonnell, John |
| McGovern, Jim | McInnes, Liz | Meale, Alan | Ritchie, Margaret |
| Robertson, Angus | Rotheram, Steve | Roy, Lindsay | Sanders, Adrian |
| Shannon, Jim | Sharma, Virendra | Skinner, Dennis | Stunell, Andrew |
| Teather, Sarah | Ward, David | Weir, Mike | Williams, Hywel |
| Willott, Jenny |
That this House condemns the human rights abuses perpetuated by the government of Eritrea, including arbitrary arrest and detention and compulsory military service imposed on all able-bodied men, women and even children, which has led to an unprecedented exodus of Eritreans, now reaching 5,000 a month, fleeing their country as refugees to Europe on a precarious journey, including the recent tragedy at Lampedusa, which is costing hundred of lives; notes with concern the collusion between the government of Eritrea and the international mining companies from the UK, Canada and Australia, which is using the forced labour of Eritreans for work in extractive industries in conditions which have been described as abject slavery by Human Rights Watch and other campaigning non-governmental organisations; and calls on the government of Eritrea to honour the international human rights treaties to which it is a party and allow, without further prevarication and delay, a visit from the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.