Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted COL 4/2013 23/05/2013 Colombia JAL African descent; Business enterprises; Extreme poverty; Food; Minority issues; Water and Sanitation; Alegaciones sobre los daños ocasionados por el vertimiento de sedimentos acumulados 13/09/2013 30/12/2013 en la represa del Bajo Anchicayá a las minorías afrodescendientes que habitan en la zona. Según información recibida, dichos sedimentos provocaron la extinción de la fauna de la cuenca media y baja del río Anchicayá y también la contaminación del río, que era la única fuente de agua potable de dichas minorías, afectando de esta manera al acceso a una alimentación adecuada y al agua potable y energía eléctrica. Asimismo, se expresa preocupación por el hecho de que no existe una sentencia firme y definitiva después de más de diez años desde el vertimiento de los sedimentos. En este sentido, también se expresa preocupación por el presunto incumplimiento de las medidas impuestas a la Empresa de Energía del Pacífico (EPSA) por el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible. OTH 5/2013 11/06/2013 Other JAL Adequate housing; Business enterprises; Extreme poverty; Food; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Health; Water and Sanitation; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; 24/01/2014 Alleged forced eviction of residents living in Jagatsinghpur District, Odisha, and surrounding areas in India. According to the information received, the Government of India granted concessions to the multi-national steel corporation, Pohang Iron and Steel Corporation (POSC), based in the Republic of Korea, for the construction of an integrated steel plant and a captive port, which could force up to 20,000 people to leave their homes and land. Sources suggest that the construction of the steel plant would result in serious violations of human rights, including the right to adequate standard of living, food, adequate housing, water and sanitation, health and education. EGY 9/2013 20/06/2013 Egypt JAL Reply 22/01/2014 Allegations that sentences issued by the Cairo Criminal Court form part of a campaign aimed at unduly restricting the work carried out by civil society organizations. According to the information received, on 4 June 2013, the Cairo Criminal Court ruled on the cases of 43 international NGO workers as follows: 27 defendants were sentenced in absentia to five years’ imprisonment; five defendants who were present in the country were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine; the remaining 11 defendants were each given a one-year suspended sentence. A/HRC/26/21 75