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Forever Wild: The Movement to Permanently Protect the World's Rivers
Rivers are the arteries of the earth, essential to all life and sustaining the highest rate of biodiversity compared to...
An urgent call to protect Brazil’s human rights and environmental defenders
In response to the brutal assassination of Dilma Ferreira Silva, a leader of Brazil’s Movement of Dam-Affected Peoples (MAB) in...
The Inga 3 Hydropower Project
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) controversial Inga 3 hydroelectric project is not expected to begin producing power until 2024...
Case Studies: River Protection
The following list is a survey of some significant pieces of river protection legislation from around the world. Many of...
The Rights of Rivers
The Universal Declaration of the Rights of Rivers Background Our rivers don’t stop at borders, and many of our rivers,...
Our River Protection Campaigns
We’ve already begun laying the groundwork for legal river protection in Latin American countries including Peru, Chile and Colombia; read...
The Global River Protection Movement
Freshwater is critical for life on earth, yet faced with tremendous threats. Permanent legal protections that ensure rivers’ critical ecosystem...
From the River's Mouth: Saving the Tigris River in Iraq
The banks of the Tigris River. Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign. Mesopotamia is one of the regions most...
Campaign in Poetry
Arun Tiwari, journalist and poet, has written extensively on rural development, ecological democracy and water related issues in India. Writers...
Wild and Scenic Rivers
International Rivers knows from experience that even once it has been stopped, a proposed dam can resurface under a new...