The Stop National Service Slavery in Eritrea is a campaign ran by Eritrean youth, mostly former recruits of the Eritrean National Service (ENS). The objectives of the campaign are to highlight the abusive nature of the ENS and the fact that the regime commits a wide range of violations that contravene important international conventions on fundamental human rights; in subjecting an entire generation of Eritreans to an indefinite, compulsory military service and forcing them, under the threat of punishment, to be engaged in hard agricultural, mining and construction projects in slave like conditions
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