Belo Monte hydroelectric plant is flouting agreements to protect indigenous communities as its builder seeks approval to start generating power,...read more
Freshwater Sources, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Large Dams | 16 March 2016
“The river is dead!” exclaimed Raimundo as we navigated in his motorboat from Altamira toward the big bend of the Xingu River. From my perch in...read more
Freshwater Sources, Indigenous Rights, Large Dams | 11 February 2016
Indigenous and riverine communities affected by the construction of a dam on Río San Pedro Mezquital asked that the Pope intercede on their behalf before the Mexican government during his visit to the country.read more
Climate Change, Freshwater Sources, Large Dams | 3 February 2016
By Anna Miller, AIDA writer On Mexico’s northern Pacific coast, verdant mangroves reach their roots into the shallow soil, drink up the sweet, fresh...read more
Accountability and Transparency, Climate Change, Large Dams | 18 December 2015
The flow of the Xingú river in the Brazilian Amazon is diminishing to a trickle, while the rainforest around it disappears. Fish and other animals...read more
A Civil Society [i] Manifesto for the Support of Real Climate Solutions Large hydropower projects are often propagated as a “clean and green” source...read more
Freshwater Sources, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Large Dams | 29 June 2015
By Flavia Amaral, AIDA attorney As construction of the world’s third-largest hydroelectric dam, Belo Monte , moves forward, social impacts and unrest...read more
Freshwater Sources, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Large Dams | 1 April 2015
Four years ago this month, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights took an important step forward for the peoples of the Xingú River Basin. It...read more
Climate Change, Human Rights, Large Dams | 24 February 2015
Inequality has increased in the last decades in Latin America, and this clearly is an obstacle for democracy. Latin America remains the region with...read more
