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Category: <span>Solidarity</span>

Category: Solidarity

Featured, Solidarity

๐’๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐ ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ข๐š๐ง๐  ๐”๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐€๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง๐š๐œ๐ก๐š๐ฅ ๐๐ซ๐š๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ก, ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐š

We publish this in solidarity with people of China, India and Bangladesh, who are threatened by the โ€œdam warโ€ on Brahmaputra River started by the governments of China and India . We saw dams built under excuses of economic growth, local development and climate salvation. The cascade on Brahmaputra is …

Balkhash, Central Asia, Featured, Solidarity

Mapping of the freshwater biodiversity of Central Asia will help to preserve it from destruction

Central Asian rivers are home to dozens of endemic and threatened fish species, most of which are not well studied. According to the International Union for Conservation for Nature (IUCN) Red List, 21 fish species in the region are critically endangered (CR), endangered (EN), or vulnerable (VU).  Several vertebrate species …

Central Asia, Essential Publications, Featured, Solidarity

How to interact with development banks lending to hydropower projects?

Bankwatch and Rivers without Boundaries have produced a Toolkit aimed primarily at civil society organizations working to challenge the construction of dams and other unsustainable water infrastructure. It focuses on Central Asia, a region where numerous highly problematic dam projects are still planned. As the region lacks an established culture …

Solidarity

Stop Attacks at the Tishreen Dam in Syria! Remember the Lessons of Kakhovka Dam Collapse in Ukraine.

Tishreen Dam on Euphrates River. Source: www.geosense.com A month-long intense clashes and recent aerial bombardment of the areas adjacent to Tishreen Dam on Euphrates River, as well as mutual accusations accompanying this conflict, vividly remind us the period before the blasting of Kakhovka Dam on Dnipro River in June 2023. …

Central Asia, Essential Publications, Featured, Solidarity

Asian Development Bank exempts free flowing rivers from dam construction

Large rivers without dams and other water infrastructure will receive additional protection from hydropower development: thanks to the efforts of the international non-governmental organizations including our Coalition, Rivers without Boundaries, the Asian Development Bank has just included in its new Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) the โ€œfree-flowing riversโ€ as a …

Central Asia, Featured, Paris worth a dam?, Solidarity

Civil Society Urges The World Bank To Back Out Of Giant Hydropower Dams in Tajikistan, Nepal and Africa

By Joshua Klemm, Co-Executive Director, International Rivers As world leaders gather this week in Washington, DC for the World Bankโ€™s Annual Meetings, over 100 civil society organizations are raising the alarm over the World Bankโ€™s plans to lend billions of dollars for ill-conceived and destructive megadams around the world. A …