3rd Global Day of Action for the defense of the 12,000 year old town Hasankeyf and the Tigris River held on June 7 and 8th, 2019. It is urgent because the Turkish government announced recently that on 10th June 2019 it will start filling the Ilisu Dam reservoir. On 15th …
More than 250 civil society organizations from more than 70 countries of the world have already signed a public statement “False Promises of Hydropower” which highlights the key threats and problems associated with dam building. The Statement is a response of civil society to the world Hydropower Congress held …
A Parallel Event organized by Civil Society Organizations, coinciding with the 2019 World Hydropower Congress Save the Date: May 13, 2019 Hosted by: Town Hall of the 6th Arrondissement, Mairie du VIe, 78 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris, France Co-Organizers: Planète Amazone, GegenStrömung/CounterCurrent, Rivers without Boundaries, International Rivers, AIDA Introduction This …
Picture: Free-flowing Amur-Heilong River forming Sino-Russian border (Taipinggou National Nature reserve) The "Heritage Dammed" Preliminary Report released by the Rivers without Boundaries International Coalition (RwB) and World Heritage Watch contains contributions from 25 CSOs, experts and affected communities around the world. LINK to the Report. THE KEY MESSAGES: – Freshwater …
International solidarity is demonstrated by Macedonian conservationists who dedicates her victory over Boskov Most Hydro to the fight against destructive hydropower in Georgia. Ana Colovic Lesoska, Executive Director of Ekosvest, CEEBankwatch’s member group in Macedonia, has led a multi-year campaign to cut off international funding for two large hydropower plants …
The 1st Mesopotamia Water forum took place on 6-8 April 2019 in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The activists working in Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran discussed water crisis in the region and denounced the grave impacts of dams and other water infrastructures on social structures, river ecosystems, cultural heritage, …
