ACHPR African Commission on Human and Peoples' Hiqhts Communication 419/12 Human Rights our Collective Responsibility - The Indigenous Peoples of the Lower Omo (represented by Survival International Charitable Trust) v Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Summary of the Complaint: 1. This Complaint was brought against the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Respondent State)! by Survival International Charitable Trust (the Author) on behalf of the Indigenous Peoples of the Lower Omo (the Complainants) on 20th April 2012. The Lower Omo Peoples are a collection <;:>£ distinct communities comprising the Bodi, Daasanech, Hamar, Karo, Kwegu (Of> Muguji), Mursi, and Nyangatom peoples domiciled in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples' Regional State (SNNPRS) in southwestEthiopia .. 2. The Complainants allege that the Respondent State is undertaking two major development projects - the Gibe III dam construction and the Kuraz Sugar Project both in the SNNPRS of Ethiopia which has a potential to greatly imperil the economic, social and cultural life of the Lower Omo Peoples. 3. The Complainants claim that the Lower. Omo Peoples are mostly agropastoralists whose primary means of subsistence is the cultivation of food crops such as sorghum and corn, and who rely on milk, meat and cattle for food and trade. The Complainants also claim that the Lower Omo Peoples depend on hunting in the surrounding forests to supplement their food sources, obtain hyde from animals for clothes, and cultivate bees for honey. 4. The Complainants claim that the Lower Omo Peoples depend on a combination of flood retreat cultivation, rain fed farming in the bush belt, and cattle herding in the woody grasslands all over the Lower Omo. To exploit these resources, the Complainants claim that the Lower Omo Peoples often move from place to place within their territories, according to the flood circle of the Lower Omo valley. 1 hltpsvachpr.au.int/O 0 a