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Civil Society Comments to PJCERS on the Santo Antônio Hydropower Project (Brazil)

Comments on the Santo Antônio Hydropower ProjectSubmitted to the Perry Johnson Registrars Carbon Emissions Services We are writing to express...
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Indigenous Leaders in Malaysia Launch Campaign Against 12 Dams

February 21, 2012 For Immediate Release Representatives from affected communities in Sarawak, Malaysia gathered to kick off their campaign against...
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Protests against Vale leave one dead and several injured in Columbia

This past Tuesday, a protest in Cesar, Columbia, culminated in several wounded, the death of a police officer, and burned...
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Stop Violence Against the Ngöbe Indigenous Peoples

The heavy weight of a law that would let foreign companies build mines, dams, hotels, and other projects on Ngöbe-Buglé...
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Belo Monte Construction Shut Down by Protestors

In the first days of the New Year, Brazilian contractors quietly started blockading the Xingu River to allow construction to...
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Justice delayed 30 years in Guatemala

Over 440 men, women and children were massacred to make way for the Chixoy Dam – a World Bank and...
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Manifesto by the Kayabi, Apiaká and Munduruku Against Hydropower Projects on the Teles Pires River

In a December 2011 letter from the Kayabi, Apiacás and Mundurucu indigenous tribes to authorities of the Brazilian government, indigenous...
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Tribes Occupy the Belo Monte Dam Work Site

Early this morning on the Xingu River outside of Altamira, an estimated 600 indigenous people from 21 tribes, as well...
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Landmark Vote Upholds Indigenous Rights on Belo Monte

On Monday, federal judge Selene Maria de Almeida voted in a landmark opinion in Brazilian courts that the Belo Monte...
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"We Have to Make a Choice"

On August 22, 2011 I had the honor of participating in the International Day of Action to Defend the Brazilian...