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Final Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples Participating in the Xingu Forever Alive Encounter, May 19-23, 2008
We, peoples of the Xingu River, do not want to hear any more about this story of dams on the...
Xingu Encounter - Altamira, Brazil
Kayapó women paint their faces in preparationGlenn Switkes May 19-23, 2008 The Xingu Encounter 2008 was a 5-day gathering of...
Amazon Indians Rally to Oppose Xingu Dams in May: Journalists Invited
Press Advisory One Thousand Amazon Indians will Rally to Oppose Xingu Dams: Journalists invited to Mass Gathering of Indigenous People...
A Knife in the Water
Yesterday´s announcement that José Antônio Muniz Lopes will be the new president of Brazil´s state electric holding company Eletrobrás has...
Dams Threaten Biodiversity and Indigenous People in Panama
From December 2007 World Rivers Review This rainy season, a mushy mess is sliding down the Changuinola River Valley. Huge...
Dam Construction and the Rights of Original Inhabitants to Participation
Abstract As a villager living along the Jinsha River, I totally believe that the area of First bend of Yangtze...
Amazon Tribe Blocks Highway to Stop Hydroelectric Dams
A remote Amazonian tribe are blockading a major highway in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso in protest at a...
Downstream Groups Back Appeal to Release Nujiang EIA
As controversty raged in China around development plans for the Nu River, 90 environmental and community groups in Burma and...
Nam Theun 2 Studies Miss the Boat
Project Documents Mask Flaws in World Bank Project A series of technical reviews by independent experts for the Nam Theun...
NGO Comments on the Use of Country Systems in Bank Operations
The World Bank has recently published the paper, "Issues in Using Country Systems in Bank Operations", for comment. The following...