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Indigenous Rights, Large Dams | 21 April 2016

Brazil mega-dam ‘disaster’ for tribes as it nears completion

Belo Monte hydroelectric plant is flouting agreements to protect indigenous communities as its builder seeks approval to start generating power, environmental lawyers have warned. The US$11 billion...read more

waterfall in the Santurbán páramo

| 14 March 2016

Organizations condemn Eco Oro’ threat to sue Colombia over efforts to protect páramos

The Canadian company’s Angostura mining project in the high-altitude wetlands, or páramo, of Santurbán, has announced that it could file an international arbitration suit against Colombia over...read more

Freshwater Sources, Indigenous Rights, Large Dams | 11 February 2016

Indigenous groups ask Pope Francis to help stop Las Cruces Dam

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...read more

Freshwater Sources | 9 February 2016

AIDA celebrates Court decision to protect Colombia's páramos

Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Monday declared unconstitutional an aspect of the country’s National Development Plan that permitted mining in páramos.read more

Grandes Represas, Fuentes de Agua Dulce, Derechos Humanos | 27 January 2016

Brazilian Court overturns suspension of Belo Monte’s operating license

The Federal Regional Court of the First Region overturned the preliminary decision suspending the operating license of the Belo Monte Dam.read more

Human Rights, Indigenous Rights | 7 January 2016

IACHR opens case against Brazil for human rights violations related to Belo Monte Dam

Four years after civil society organizations filed their original petition, the Commission opens the case, asking the Brazilian government to respond to allegations of human rights violations...read more

Fracking | 10 December 2015

To cool the planet, fracking must be prohibited, organizations say

By emitting large quantities of greenhouse gases, the process itself goes against the central objective of the climate negotiations: stopping global warming.read more

| 3 December 2015

Climate initiatives must not include large hydropower projects – NGOs

In a global manifesto released today, a coalition of more than 300 civil society organizations from 53 countries called on governments and financiers at the Paris climate talks to keep large...read more

| 3 December 2015

If we want to cool the planet, fracking must be banned

Statement from the Latin American Alliance On Fracking at COP21: The goal of the 21st Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is to reach an effective...read more

Human Rights, Indigenous Rights | 25 November 2015

Brazil authorizes operation of the Belo Monte Dam, disregarding the rights of affected communities

The environmental authority granted the project’s operating license, ignoring evidence of noncompliance with conditions necessary to guarantee the life, health and integrity of indigenous and other...read more

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