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Declaration on the Myth of Destructive Dams as Clean Energy and the Urgent Need to Protect Rivers

Healthy rivers provide clean water essential for life on Earth. Following the Rio+20 Earth Summit’s failure to recognize the irreversible...
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Turkish Dam Boom Threatens Anatolian Rivers

From June 2012 World Rivers Review In recent years, dam building in Turkey has increased by leaps and bounds. River...
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Protect Hasankeyf on the Tigris River

The tremendous cultural and natural heritage of Mesopotamia is in great danger due to the construction of the Ilisu Dam...
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Victory: European Governments Backing Out of Ilisu Dam Project in Turkey

June 22, 2009 Germany, Austria and Switzerland will withdraw their export credit guarantees for the highly controversial Ilisu dam project...
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Today a Rockstar Saved a Town

Today in Berlin, its all about Tarkan and Merkel. Tarkan, the biggest Turkish popstar is in town, and he is...
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Protesters arrested at World Water Forum in Istanbul

Article published on the 2009-03-17 www.rfi.fr Protesters were jailed for holding a banner at the forum in Istanbul. The fifth...
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Preaching Tap and Drinking Bottle?

I did not feel well through much of the World Water Forum, which concluded in Istanbul today. To be sure,...
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Ilisu Dam Fighters Honored at Award Ceremony in Istanbul

International Rivers, Oxfam Australia and Friends of the Earth International awarded Hasankeyf’i Yaşatma Girişimi the First FREE RIVERS AWARD. It...
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Why I Risked Arrest

International Rivers sent two colleagues and myself to attend the fifth World Water Forum (WWF5) to draw attention to the...
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Deported From the World Water Forum

Back home in Berlin, I am overwhelmed by the show of support for our message that dams are a risky...