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  • World Water Day 2022 Student Event Recap

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on May 19, 2022

    On World Water Day (March 22, 2022) students of the University of Manitoba in collaboration with Dam Watch International, organized and conducted an event – A Look Over Dams…

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  • Indigenous women’s gathering aims to strengthen female leadership in Brazil

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on September 3, 2021

    The “1st Meeting of the Women of Western Paraná – The Uprising of Guarani Women and the Strengthening of the Struggle for Land Demarcation”. Photo: Hosoya, 2021. — Dam Watch…

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  • Stop the Intentional Flooding of O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on June 28, 2021

    Manitoba Hydro, a crown corporation, flooded…

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  • A Conversation on Hydro and Indigenous Territories

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on June 18, 2021

    In partnership with Kitatipithitamak Mithwayawin (COVID-19 Indigenous), we hosted the webinar, A Conversation on Hydro and Indigenous Territories. This featured members of our network that have directly and indirectly…

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  • Rio Verde: 15 years of resistance against hydro-electric dams

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on April 13, 2021

    In Mexico, hydroelectric dam construction is accompanied by serious violations of the human rights of thousands of indigenous peoples and peasant communities. Forced displacement, little or no compensation, inadequate…

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  • The delicate territorial situation of indigenous peoples in Brazil

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on March 25, 2021

    Recognized worldwide for its natural resources and one of the largest tropical forests in the world, the Amazon Forest, Brazil is also characterized by presenting contexts of permanent aggressions…

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  • Itaipu Dam: The struggle of the Avá-Guarani people continues

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on March 12, 2021

    Considered one of the largest power stations on the planet, Itaipu binational hydroelectric plant, located between Brazil and Paraguay, was built from 1975 to 1982 when both countries…

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  • Let’s Move: A Film by Willard Napash

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on February 12, 2021

    Filmmaker Willard Napash shares the impacts of hydro-dam development on his Cree community, Chisasibi (in so called Quebec, Canada).  Willard has seen the many impacts of dams…

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  • DAMage to the Kischi Sipi

    Posted by Rebecca Kingdon on February 12, 2021

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