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On October 23, 2014, Kenyan organizations, the Endorois Welfare Council (EWC), Kenyan Human Rights Commission (KHRC), and Kenyan Land Alliance (KLA), as well as international partners, Prof. Hansungule (based in South Africa), Minority Rights Group International (MRG), Dejusticia (based in Colombia), and ESCR-Net, joined a first meeting of the Task Force created by the Kenyan government to address the ACHPR’s ruling on the Endorois case. This was a positive step towards implementation, but it remains to be seen if this will be a sufficient step.

The Price of Steel: Human Rights and Forced Evictions in the POSCO-India Project documents the human rights abuses being carried out to facilitate the establishment of the POSCO-India project, and the associated illegal seizures of land which threaten to forcibly displace as many as 22,000 people in India’s eastern state of Odisha. The report calls for a suspension of the POSCO-India project and a halt to the human rights abuses.