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Amidst Broken Promises, Indigenous Authorities Detain Belo Monte Dam Engineers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Amidst Broken Promises, Indigenous Authorities Detain Belo Monte Dam Engineers Meanwhile a new lawsuit is filed seeking...
World Heritage Committee Fails to Protect Lake Turkana
Lake Turkana fisherman. Photo: International Rivers Over a dozen World Heritage Sites threatened by planned or existing dams were reviewed...
World Heritage Committee Decisions in 2012
Fishing boat by Lake Turkana Below are summaries of all the decisions made on dam-threatened World Heritage Sites that were...
PM Must Stop Xayaburi Dam (Bangkok Post)
Construction work underway at the Xayaburi dam site in Northern LaosPhoto: International Rivers Originally published in The Bangkok Post A...
Final Declaration of the People's Summit at Rio+20
In June 2012 the UN Conference on Sustainable Development brought together governments, corporations, and a subset of NGOs, in Rio...
Testing the Waters: Laos Pushes Xayaburi Dam to Critical Point
For a brief moment last week, Laos earned the praise of governments throughout the Mekong region. The region was on...
Dilma Rolling Back Indigenous Rights in Brazil?
The Xikrin Kayapó meet with Norte Energia, S.A. during the June 2012 occupation of Belo Monte. (Photo: Amazon Watch) The...
Human Banner Organized in Brazil
Nearly 1500 people used Rio’s Flamengo Beach as a canvas on June 19, 2012. Their bodies formed the lines of...
Declaration on the Myth of Destructive Dams as Clean Energy and the Urgent Need to Protect Rivers
Healthy rivers provide clean water essential for life on Earth. Following the Rio+20 Earth Summit’s failure to recognize the irreversible...
Baram Dam
Of the 12 dams planned in Sarawak, the 1,200 MW Baram Dam was planned to be next in line to...