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Brazilian Indigenous Leader to Address UN Council in Effort to Stop Dam | The Guardian
This article originally appeared in The Guardian Ademir Kaba Munduruku will argue Brazil is violating indigenous rights by failing to...
Amazonian Tribe Brings an Epic Battle for Indigenous Rights to the United Nations
After fighting destructive Amazon dams at home for many years, indigenous leader Ademir Kaba Munduruku brought his people’s struggle to...
Amazonian Tribe Brings Struggle to International Stage
When Brazilian energy planners proposed to choke the Amazon’s Tapajós River and its tributaries with dozens of large hydroelectric dams,...
Broken Homes and Dry Springs
Assessment studies for dam and hydropower projects in India attempt to look closely at the impacts of river-inhibiting civil works,...
Powerful Miniseries Depicts Struggles to Protect Sacred Indigenous Sites
Fisherman in the shadow of Basamuk refinery in New Guinea. Sacred Land Film Project A four-part miniseries called Standing on Sacred...
Whose Dream is Inga 3?
Foreign Policy’s recent article, “The River That Swallows All Dams,” provides an excellent overview of the development history of the...
Nepal Earthquake Tests Dam Safety
After the devastating Gorkha earthquake of April 25, which killed thousands and left many more homeless, details are slowly emerging...
Who Benefits From the Nile?
In a drama that involved threats, name-calling and finger-pointing, a new episode was recently inaugurated when the President of Egypt...
Communities Worldwide Mobilize to Protect Rivers and Defend their Rights
From April 2015 World Rivers Review Around the world, the proponents of large dams consistently downplay or simply ignore the...
Amazonian Tribes Unite to Demand Brazil Stop Hydroelectric Dams
The Munduruku, Apiaká, Kayabi and Rikbaktsa release joint statement as Brazil steps ups efforts to exploit power of the rivers...