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Wang Yongchen, A Warrior for China’s Free Flowing Rivers
From March 2011 World Rivers Review A growing environmental movement has taken hold in China. Since the late 1970s, more...
Watering the Grassroots: Training African Women to Solve Water Problems
From March 2011 World Rivers Review “Water is life. When everyone has access to sources of water that are treated,...
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...
Regional Judge Overturns Ban on Construction of Controversial Belo Monte Dam
Decision allows for forest clearance and start-up of dam construction to begin, despite violations of human rights and environmental legislation...
The Final Countdown to March 14
The call to action has gone out far and wide, whispers have spread from Mexico to Colombia, crossing oceans to...
No Plot of One's Own
How Large Dams Reinforce Gender Inequalities From March 2011 World Rivers Review Large dams have enormous consequences for people’s lives...
Why We Cannot Keep Silent
Women Speak Out for Rivers From March 2011 World Rivers Review How do women feel when their rivers are dammed,...
China's Dam-Building Will Cause More Problems Than It Solves
Originally published in The Guardian Under pressure to cut emissions, China risks irreversibly destroying its great rivers and biodiversity hotspots...
A Journey to the Hotspots of China’s Environmental Crisis
China may be the epicenter of the global environmental crisis. Along the Yangtze, Yellow and Pearl rivers, fragile ecosystems meet...
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...