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Brazil should consult natives on Amazon dam: panel
WASHINGTON — Brazil should suspend work on the massive Belo Monte dam project in the Amazon to consult the affected...
El Zapotillo Dam Site Occupied While Illegal Construction Continues
Temacapulín Residents Demand Cancellation of the Project Activists from around the country join protest in solidarity with the community of...
Indigenous Leaders Call Attention to Destructive Amazon Dams During European Tour
Over the past two weeks, I had the privilege of joining indigenous leaders from Brazil and Peru on a tour...
ILO Says Brazil Violated Convention 169 in Belo Monte Case
International Labor Organization confirms government violated indigenous rights Altamira, Brazil – A report released by the Committee of Experts on...
A Real Life "Avatar" in Brazil
International Rivers featured on NHPR radio. Listen now! "Clean energy will be a major topic when President Obama tours South...
Brazil Dam Energises Environmentalists
Originally published in Financial Times Those passing by the London office of Brazil's development bank, BNDES, on Wednesday would have...
5,000 Indigenous Peoples Ignored In Grab for Carbon Credits
As far back as the 1970s, civil society groups and the Ngobe indigenous people have been fighting to protect the...
Dance to Defend the Amazon!
Join our friends at Amazon Watch and the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA) for a benefit featuring “Message from...
Lao Dam Conceals Hidden Costs
Originally published in The Nation Amidst much fanfare, French President Nicholas Sarkozy and senior World Bank (WB) and Asian Development...
Good News for Rivers and Rights in the Amazon
Great news! Bishop Erwin Kräutler has just received the Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as the Alternative Nobel Prize....