The Price of Steel-Human Rights and forced evictions in the POSCO-India Steel Project

The POSCO project in India is a story all too familiar. This is a story about attempts to forcibly evict thousands of families from their homes, their fields, and their forests to make way for a massive steel plant to be built and operated by the South Korea-based multinational corporation POSCO, through its wholly-owned subsidiary POSCO-India. Should the project move forward, entire villages will be decimated, livelihoods will be destroyed, and families will be rendered homeless, all in the name of development. This Report, produced by the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) at New York University School of Law and the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), offers yet another contribution to efforts to advance human rights analysis in the context of development-induced forced evictions. The Report is unique in that it combines expert legal analysis, based on India’s international human rights commitments, and insights gained from testimonies gathered directly from affected community members.