Category: <span>Solidarity</span>

3rd International Symposium of the Benthological Society of Asia

The 3rd International Symposium of the Benthological Society of Asia will be held on August 24–26, 2016, at the Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia). The main goal of the Symposium is to summarize knowledge in different branches of freshwater ecology in Asia, combine efforts in protection of fresh waters, …

Ewenki leader Sergey Nikiforov declared a prisoner of conscience

Sergei Nikiforov, an Evenki indigenous people’s leader and environmental rights defender has been imprisoned for opposing a gold mining project in the Amur region, in Russia’s Far East, after an unfair trial. He is a prisoner of conscience. Sergei Nikiforov is an environmental rights defender and an Evenki indigenous leader …

EBRD-China tandem may exacerbate hydropower crisis in Europe?

EBRD-China tandem may exacerbate hydropower crisis in Europe? A wave of hydropower development fueled by European public funding and EU companies may be further exacerbated by China’s membership in EBRD. A new study, that Bankwatch  deals with European public funding and EU companies, which are fuelling a wave of hydropower …

Strategic Assessment for the Silk Road

“Pure Growth Vitamins” from BRICS Magazine Huge cross-border projects that will be financed by new development institutes threaten to create dangerous differences in environmental standards ‘race to the bottom’. However, the problem can still be solved. Three separatet disasters in the Russian Far East in 2005, 2007, and 2010 that …

Mongolian River-protection activists released

  Dear Friends: Union of Mongolian River and Lake Movements (UMMRL) is delighted to share with you good news that Munkhbayar and Tumurbaatar were released on 6th November after the amendments to the Amnesty Law of Mongolia were finally approved. They spent in jail two years out of their original …

Silk Belt needs UNECE Water Convention

Seventh session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention is being held in Budapest on 17 – 19 November 2015. Convention is opening for accession by countries from outside of UNECE region. On the first day meeting participants discussed what are main objectives and geographic priorities for …