A mine owned partly owned by Canadian company Nevsun Resources used slave labour to dig its gold in Eritrea -- this is a what a UN report found in 2015. 

And last year, in a landmark decision, a Canadian court has agreed to hear a case filed by three former workers -- who say they suffered forced labour, imprisonment and torture.

Nevsun and its shareholders have been profiting from slavery and abuse for years. So ahead of Nevsun's shareholder meeting on Wednesday, lets' call on one of Nevsun’s biggest shareholders, M&G, to divest from the company that uses slaves.

Tell Nevsun’s chief shareholders to withdraw their investment in gold mines worked by slaves ahead of the shareholder meeting on Wednesday.

Nevsun -- since allegations of forced labour first arose -- has either refused to comment on the evidence or acknowledged that slaves built its enormous Bisha mine in Eritrea and expressed “regret,” passing the blame to one of its subcontractors -- even after a UN report found devastating evidence. Its time we make our voices heard, and what better time than its annual meeting with its most important shareholders. 

Nevsun knows full well what is at stake when it invests in an unstable state like Eritrea, one of the worst countries in the world for unchecked human rights abuse. It’s happy to ignore report after report, accusation after accusation, so long as it can keep plundering resources and cheap labour.