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For nearly three decades, International Rivers has been at the forefront of research and communications on issues surrounding large dams and their impact on rivers and communities.

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Update from the Amazon: No consultation, No construction!

Thanks to colleagues at Amazon Watch and Movimento Xingu Vivo Para Sempre for this information and the translation of the...
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Stories of Resettlement and Resistance Along the Lancang River

Village above Gongguoqiao Reservoir. International Rivers – Below is a guest blog by Songqiao Yao, China program consultant for International...
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Indigenous Peoples Protest Destructive Sarawak Dams, Corruption at Industry Conference in Malaysia

More than three hundred indigenous people of the Penan, the Kenyah, the Kayan, and Iban ethnic groups protested this morning...
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DR Congo Waits on Funding for World's Largest Hydropower Project

This article originally appeared in The Guardian The dream of harnessing the mighty Congo with the world’s largest set of...
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PR: International Activists Block Ilisu Dam Site

Amazon indigenous leaders join protest demanding protection of World Heritage site in Turkey FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hasankeyf, Turkey: Representatives of...
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Grand Inga - the World Bank’s Latest Silver Bullet for Africa

Mega-dams have a long history of bypassing the poor in the DRC. IRIN When World Bank President Jim Kim visits...
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At Sustainability Congress, Dam Builder Bars Civil Society from Dialogue

SAVE Rivers has protested against the Sarawak dams’ impacts on indigenous peoples.SAVE Rivers Sarawak Energy, state developer of the controversial...
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Proposed Malaysia Dams Raise Transparency, Livelihood Fears

BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Activists in Sarawak, one of Malaysia’s poorest states, have denounced local government plans to build...
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World Bank Response to NGO Letter on Mega-Dams for Africa

Response by the World Bank to the NGO letter of May 15, 2013, raising concerns and asking questions about the...
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AFP: Malaysia Hydropower Meeting to Open Amid Controversy

SARAWAK, MALAYSIA – The world hydroelectric industry’s decision to meet in a Malaysian state where dams have uprooted rainforests and...