Defending the Defenders

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Blood in the Water: Why We Must Defend Water Protectors

A banner at a demonstration at the State Department, Washington, D.C. in 2016 after the murder of Berta Cáceres. Rosarino...
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Funders Exit Agua Zarca Dam, But Struggle Continues

Honduran police at a COPINH event. COPINH Last week, Honduran police arrested several officers employed by the Agua Zarca Dam...
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Baram Dam Stopped! A Victory for Indigenous Rights

Baram Dam protest. SAVE Rivers A little over two years ago, in October 2013, hundreds of indigenous villagers from the...
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Tell Dam Builders to Pull Out of Agua Zarca Dam!

For years, critics of the Agua Zarca dam project in Honduras have been targeted by a campaign of violence, intimidation...
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In Solidarity for Protection of the Areng Valley

Dam affected villagers from the Sesan and Srepok rivers support Alex A few years ago, Alejandro “Alex” Gonzalez-Davidson, a Spanish...
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PR – Human Rights Groups Demand Police Stop Intimidating Rightful Landowners of Baram

Despite police intimidation, Indigenous Peoples who will be affected by the proposed Baram Dam continue to protect their land. International...
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Latin America River Defenders Gather in Solidarity

From December 2013 World Rivers Review More than 530 men and women from 14 different countries from Patagonia to Mexico...
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Defensores de los Rios

Los peruanos están enfrentando propuestas para la construcción de grandes represas en su territorio, las cuales traerían impactos fuertes e...
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New Protest Paralyzes Brazil's Belo Monte Dam

Indigenous and riverbank communities occupy key work camp
 of Amazon megaproject Altamira, Brazil – Today some 150 protestors from four...
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Community Leader and Defender of the Sogamoso River Disappears

Miguel Pabón Photo courtesy of Movimiento Colombiano Miguel Pabón, a community leader and ardent defender of the Sogamoso River has...