International Rivers is working with frontline communities to explore legal protections for the Tapajos and Arapiuns rivers.

Four years ago this month, environmental lawyer and climate justice advocate Dang Dinh Bach (Bach) was unjustly arrested in ...

By Maureen Harris, Senior Advisor June 24, 2025, marks a grim anniversary: four years since environmental lawyer Dang Dinh ...

Banks and developers are the main benefit from hydropower. Communities are urging the World Bank to prioritize people over profits.

Released in partnership with GegenStrömung, Rivers, Rights, Resistance is a compendium of stories about the legacy of the World Commission on Dams. In response to fierce grassroots opposition to large ...

In a historic milestone for the protection of the Marañón River, led by indigenous Kukama women of Peru, the Peruvian Mixed Court in Nauta ruled to protect the rights of the Marañón River FOR ...

Fighting False Solutions April 6, 2022 April 7, 2022. Originally published in Alternet by Josh Klemm and Eugene Simonov . Not only does hydroelectric power fail to prevent catastrophic climate change, ...

Corporate Accountability June 25, 2024 June 26, 2024. by Pai Deetes, Phairin Sohsai and Tanya L. Roberts Davis. Today, International Rivers is releasing a map illustrating sites of struggle along the ...

Asia November 8, 2024 November 8, 2024. By Rin Sohsai. In early October, the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRC) sent a letter to Thailand’s Prime Minister expressing serious concerns ...