Statement - Declaration

Declaração do Movimento Social em Defesa do rio Madeira

Monday, March 5, 2007
NÃO PASSARÃO SOBRE O POVO DO MADEIRA! DECLARAÇÃO DO MOVIMENTO SOCIAL EM DEFESA DA BACIA DO MADEIRA E DA REGIÃO AMAZÔNICA Nós membros e representantes das comunidades ribeirinhas, de organizações camponesas e de atingidos por barragens do Estado de Rondônia e dos departamentos de Pando (Bolívia) e Madre de Dios (Peru), dando continuidade aos compromissos, firmados em Cobija, de construir um Movimento Social das Comunidades dos Madeira, nos reunimos em Porto Velho para organizar a resistência conjunta aos grandes projetos programados para beneficiarem o agronegócio, as mineradoras,

Pronunciamiento del Norte Amazónico de Bolivia frente a la reunión de los presidentes de Bolivia y Brasil

Saturday, February 3, 2007
Cobija, Bolivia Pronunciamiento del Norte Amazónico de Bolivia frente a la próxima reunión de los presidentes de los gobiernos de Bolivia y Brasil, Evo Morales e Ignacio Lula Da Silva, sobre las represas del Río madera Nosotros los representantes de organizaciones sociales de la región norte amazónica, reunidos en la ciudad de Cobija, hemos tomado conocimiento: Que, a fines del mes de febrero del presente año, se reunirán en Brasilia los presidentes de Bolivia, Evo Morales y de Brasil, Ignacio Lula da Silva, para tratar diferentes temas de la agenda entre ambos países, entre los que s

Em Defesa da Vida e do Rio Xingu

Sunday, October 21, 2007
(em inglês)Nós, Povos Indígenas: Xikrin, Pykajakà, Potikro, Bacajá, Mrotidjam; Kayapó: Kikretum, Kokraimoro, Pukararankre, Kendjam, Moikarakô, Aukre, Kôkôkuedajà, Kararaô; Araweté do Igarapé Ipixuna; Parakanã -- Apyterewa; Assurini do Xingu; Juruna (Pakisamba e Km 17); Xipaya, Kuruaya; Arara do Pará (do Maia, Laranjal e Cachoeira Seca); índios da cidade de Altamira; Apinajé do Estado do Tocantins; Tembé; Gavião e Karitiana de Rondônia; juntos com os movimentos sociais e Organizações Não Governamentais, institutos de pesquisas e Universidade Federal do Pará e ao convite

In Defense of Life and the Xingu River

Sunday, June 3, 2007
We wish to express our concern about the possible construction of a complex of hydroelectric dams on the Xingu River. If these large dams are constructed on the Volta Grande (Big Bend) of the Xingu River they will affect indigenous peoples, agricultural communities, the forest and its biodiversity, and would harm life in the Xingu basin. We are totally opposed to Belo Monte [one of the large dams] because the Xingu River is our life. The death of the river would threaten our lives, our future, our people, and our children and grandchildren. Any interference with the Xingu will cause the extinc

Save the Mekong Statement l The Mekong needs just energy transitions, not more destructive dams

Tuesday, June 2, 2020
On 11 May, the Mekong River Commission (MRC) announced that the proposed Sanakham hydropower project in Laos will undergo the MRC’s Prior Consultation process.[1] Sanakham is the sixth mainstream dam to be submitted for Prior Consultation. The proposed Sanakham dam is expensive, unnecessary and risky – and should be cancelled. The 684-megawatt (MW) dam would cost over $2 billion and take eight years to build. If averaged out over eight years, the Sanakham dam would be adding 90 MW a year, which pales in comparison to the installation of more sustainable energy options being rolled out in

Joint Statement l One year after Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy dam collapse, civil society from Korea and the Mekong call for immediate accountability and redress

Tuesday, July 23, 2019
One year ago today, on 23 July 2018, Saddle Dam of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower project in Attapeu Province, Laos, collapsed. The dam collapse unleashed a disaster with transboundary implications in which dozens of people were killed and thousands of residents were driven from their homes. We offer our thoughts and prayers for the 49 Lao residents who lost their lives and 22 others who remain missing. We also offer our deepest condolences to the many Lao and Cambodian residents who lost so much in this accident. Although a year has passed, the tragedy of the dam collapse continues. Support

Statement: It’s Time for the African Development Bank to Pull the Plug on the Inga 3 Dam

Tuesday, June 18, 2019
On the occasion of the visit of African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), International Rivers calls on the institution to withdraw its support from the Inga 3 Dam. President Adesina was scheduled to visit the Inga site on Wednesday, June 19 as part of his four-day visit to the country. In 2013, the AfDB approved a $68 million grant to provide technical assistance to get Inga 3 off the ground. Years on, the project is no closer to coming to fruition, and most of the AfDB’s funds remain unspent. The World Bank had agreed to contribut

Save the Mekong Calls for New Transboundary Impact Assessment and Suspension of the Pak Lay Dam

Wednesday, September 19, 2018
On the occasion of the Mekong River Commission’s (MRC) regional stakeholder forum on the Pak Lay Hydropower Project, Save the Mekong - a coalition of non-government organizations, community groups and concerned citizens in the Mekong region - calls for a new Transboundary Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (TBESIA) and Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA) for the proposed Pak Lay dam due to the poor quality of the current assessments. Pak Lay is the fourth dam on the lower Mekong mainstream in Lao PDR and has recently commenced the MRC’s Prior Consultation procedure. The stated purp

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