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Malaysian and international human rights organizations have united to publicly condemn the actions taken by authorities and logging company representatives to intimidate Indigenous Peoples in Sarawak at the proposed site of the Baram Dam.

A coalition of six local, regional and international NGOs filed a complaint today with SUHAKAM, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia, requesting investigation of the economic and social impacts of the Don Sahong Dam on behalf of Thai and Cambodian communities faced with a threat of losing their main food source.

Today, a group of 18 civil society organizations from Cambodia and the Mekong region issued a statement demanding that the project developers and the Cambodian Government conduct a new Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and release information on the redesign of the Lower Sesan 2 Dam.

Environmental and human rights groups from Malaysia and internationally are calling on the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to shelve a proposal to loan up to US$45 million for building the “Trans-Borneo Power Grid” (transmission lines) in Sarawak, Malaysia.

2 ตุลาคม 2557 พนมเปญ กัมพูชา คณะกรรมการร่วมของคณะกรรมาธิการแม่น้ำโขง (Mekong River Commission - MRC) ประชุมในสัปดาห์นี้ที่กรุงพนมเปญ โดยคาดว่าจะมีการประกาศวันเริ่มต้นกระบวนการปรึกษาหารือล่วงหน้า (Prior Consultation) กรณีเขื่อนดอนสะโฮง ซึ่งดูเหม�

Ahead of next week’s UN General Assembly and Climate Summit, 118 groups from 37 countries urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to ensure that private finance is not counted as international climate finance, as well as ensure that the green bond market is truly green.

As world leaders prepared to announce their actions on climate yesterday, thousands of people flooded the streets of New York City calling for wealthy nations to put money into the Green Climate Fund and demanding that none of it goes to finance dirty energy.

Today, International Rivers launched “The State of the World's Rivers,” a first-of-its-kind database that illustrates how dams have helped impoverish the health of the world's river basins.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bangkok, Thailand: Tomorrow, the fate of thousands of villagers living on the Nam Ngiep River in central Lao PDR will be in the hands of thirteen people sitting over 2,000 kilometers away, at the headquarters of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The ADB’s Board of Directors will vote on whether to approve a US$ 50 million private sector loan for the construction of the proposed Nam Ngiep 1 Hydropower Project, a dam which is planned on the Nam Ngiep River, 40 kilometers from the confluence with the Mekong mainstream. The 290 MW Nam Ngiep 1 Dam is being advanced by the

In response to news from the 20th Meeting of the Mekong River Commission Council that Lao PDR has agreed to submit the Don Sahong Dam for Prior Consultation, as mandated under the 1995 Mekong Agreement, International Rivers issued the following statement from Southeast Asia Program Director, Ame Trandem