Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply OTH 4/2013 04/04/2013 Other JAL Business enterprises; Indigenous peoples; Allegations received regarding the impact of the activities of IAMGOLD on the Saramaka tribal people, in relation to new mining rights and the expansion of a hydroelectric project. According to the information received, IAMGOLD and its subsidiary Rosebel Gold Mines N.V. have requested and been granted an extension of mining rights in Saramaka territories under an agreement to modify the Mineral Agreement of 7 April 1994 and expand the Afobaka hydroelectric dam and reservoir, also in Saramaka territories, as part of the TapaJai project. The mining concessions and the expansion of the Afobaka dam are alleged to impact adversely on the rights of the Saramaka. 05/06/2013 SUR 1/2013 04/04/2013 Suriname JAL Business enterprises; Indigenous peoples; Alleged authorization of new mining rights and the related expansion of a hydroelectric project in the traditional territory of the Saramaka maroon people. According to the information received, the Government has granted new mining rights in Saramaka territories under an agreement to modify the Mineral Agreement of 7 April 1994 and expand the Afobaka hydroelectric dam and reservoir, also in Saramaka territories, as part of the TapaJai project. The mining concessions and the expansion of the Afobaka dam are alleged to contravene the judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of Saramaka People v. Suriname, which affirmed the collective land and resource rights of the Saramaka, a maroon tribal group in northeast Suriname, and ordered the Government of Suriname to legally recognize and protect the land and natural resource rights of indigenous and tribal peoples in the country. LKA 3/2013 05/04/2013 Sri Lanka JAL Disappearances; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Allegations of undue obstruction to the travel of about 600 human rights defenders, including relatives of disappeared persons, from Vavuniya to Colombo to attend a peaceful demonstration. According to the information received, on 5 and 6 March 2013, about 600 human rights defenders, including relatives of disappeared persons, from Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaithivu, Mannar and Vavuniya districts, were prevented by the police and men in plainclothes believed to be security officials, from travelling from Vavuniya to Colombo to attend a peaceful demonstration. The organizers, forced to cancel their travel to the capital, decided to peacefully march to the office of the Government Agent in Vavuniya with a view to handing over a memorandum to him, in which they called, inter alia, for the release or disclosure of names of individuals abducted and detained. A/HRC/24/21 34 Date Type