Last month, International Rivers and coalition partners took our message on river preservation to Brasília. On June 22, the Brazilian Coalition for Rivers, the Angá Association, International Rivers, and the Federal University of Southern Bahia hosted a three-hour event in the Chamber of Deputies on river protections as part of a month-long congressional session on…
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By Isabella Winkler Three thousand miles apart, Nirmala’s and Violet’s experience led them both to the same calling: to protect the rivers in their communities. Growing up on a farm in rural Kenya without electricity, Violet Matiru developed a love of nature and the drive to fight its degradation early on. She began her environmental…
Read MoreLink to the statement in Portuguese and English International Rivers strongly condemns the attacks against members of the Indigenous Enawenê-Nawê people last week. This aggression was carried out by security employees of Hydria Energia, which controls a series of hydropower dams on Brazil’s Juruena River in the state of Mato Grosso. These dams have been…
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By Josh Klemm, International Rivers Co-Director and Oleksii Vasyliuk, co-founder Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (UNCG). Originally published in the EU Observer. The destruction of the Kakhovka hydropower dam has precipitated the manmade disaster unfolding in Ukraine, the impacts of which will be experienced by the environment and people for generations to come. Dams must not be…
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After conducting an extensive study, Colombian Constitutional Court ruled to protect the fundamental rights of Anchichayá Dam affected communties Final judgment will be released no later than September 2023. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 21, 2023 MEDIA CONTACTS: Silvano Caicedo, President of la Organizacion Etnico-territorial ONUIRA silvanocaicedo1966@outlook.es (Spanish) Benjamin Mosquera, Consejo Comunitario Mayor of the Anchicayá River, bmr1173@gmail.com (Spanish)…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 20, 2023 MEDIA CONTACT: v4climateleaders@gmail.com Human Rights and Climate Justice Organizations Enter Last Week of Month-Long Hunger Strike on Behalf of Environmental Lawyer, Dang Dinh Bach 65 Groups Send Letter to President Obama Calling for Release of Obama Foundation Scholar, Hoang Thi Minh Hong #StandwithBach www.standwithbach.org Five of Vietnam’s most prominent…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 20, 2023 MEDIA CONTACTS: Josh Klemm, +1 202 492 8904, jklemm@internationalrivers.org (English) Bonnie Barclay, +1 323 363 4874, bbarclay@internationalrivers.org (English) Oleksii Vasyliuk, +380 97 100 04 73, vasyliuk@gmail.com (Ukrainian and Russian) Link to statement in English, Russian, Ukrainian On Tuesday, Ukraine Nature Conservation Group (UNCG), International Rivers and over twenty other…
Read MoreLink to the statement in English, Russian, Ukrainian Ukraine Nature Conservation Group, International Rivers, and the undersigned organizations condemn the weaponization of the Kakhovka hydropower dam, whose destruction has precipitated the manmade disaster unfolding in Ukraine, the impacts of which will be experienced by the environment and people for generations to come. Dams must not be used as…
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Atividade organizada pela Coalizão Pelos Rios acontece dia 22 de junho, em Brasília, e faz parte da programação da Virada Parlamentar Sustentável, evento que mobiliza o Congresso Nacional nas pautas socioambientais ao longo do mês de junho. Brasília, 13 de junho de 2023 – Os impactos socioambientais dos rios e a sua importância para população…
Read MoreManifesto to Congress calls the changes “dismemberment of the environment” and calls on deputies and senators to reverse in plenary the setbacks approved yesterday Representatives of civil society organizations (CSOs) sent a manifesto signed by 790 organizations to the leaders of Brazil’s National Congress criticizing the substitute for Provisional Measure 1.154, which was approved this…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 9, 2023 Media contact: +593 99 931 1384 comunicaciones@proyectodulcepamba.org Spanish version here June 9, 2023 – After almost 20 years of struggle, justice has finally arrived for the 140 communities of the Dulcepamba River basin. On Tuesday, May 30, The Ministry of Environment, Water, and Ecological Transition (MAATE) reversed the water…
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