Eritrea Denys Forced Labor by Rachel Almquist

Eritrea's government denied the accusations made by the Human Rights Watch stating that forced labor was used to build a gold mine that is being shared with Canada’s Nevsun Resources Ltd. “The use of conscripted labor at the Bisha site is not allowed,” it said. The company “acted quickly” to start checks and to obtain a written assurance from Segen that no conscripts would work at the mine, it said. Over $614 million of gold was mined in 2011. Eritrea, which became independent from Ethiopia in 1993 after a 30-year war, is “one of the most closed and repressive countries in the world," according to bloomberg.com. Honestly, this is no surprise that they have used forced labor, and that they're denying it. If your economy sucks and your country as a whole is a repressive dump, you're going to used force to try and make it better.