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2012 Annual Report Released September 2013 Annual Report 2012 Growing the movement for healthy rivers & human rights Wrong Amazônia Save the Climate for Viva Mekong Damming Rivers Dear River Lovers and Defenders, In 2012, International Rivers continued to deftly navigate As Amazonian indigenous leader Valdenir Munduruku the struggles to defend rivers at risk around the world. recently said in Brazil: We strengthened our regional offices in dam-building hot They [the government] want to say that they will build spots and added staff and resources to better support our dams on our land and then see what we want in return. movement and local partners in Brazil, India, South Africa And we do not want anything in return. We want our and Thailand. Highlights of our regional initiatives included: river free and our nature preserved. The Minister says • Fighting for food security for millions of people on the he wants to consult with indigenous peoples, but that the Mekong River in Southeast Asia; government’s decision to build the dams has already been made. What kind of consultation is that? • Creating awareness of the climate risks of dams on the Zambezi; International Rivers is working for a just and sustainable • Providing training workshops and policy advocacy future where local communities’ rights and aspirations – to advance environmental flows for healthy rivers in like those of the Munduruku in Brazil and the Turkana India; and people of Kenya – are fully part of the democratic process • Working in solidarity with indigenous people in of managing our shared river heritage. This past year, the Amazon to protect their rivers from destructive we added six new members to our Board of Directors, big dams. injecting new expertise and enthusiasm into building the financial strength and strategic effectiveness of Jason Rainey Deborah Moore At the heart of International Rivers’ work is our belief that International Rivers. Our collective success is only Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors the health and vitality of rivers and communities is inextricably possible with the crucial support of our community of connected. Part of what makes us unique is that we focus engaged river defenders. on protecting rivers and the rights of communities all over the world who are suffering from the same patterns of Thank you for all that you do! destructive development. We doggedly pursue solutions that will work for both people and the planet, working hand-in-hand with the vulnerable communities whose rights and livelihoods are most affected by the damaging consequences of mega-dams. IMAGES ON COVER BY TOMÁS MUÑITA AND INTERNATIONAL RIVERS STAFF 2 International Rivers Mission How We Work International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights International Rivers protects rivers and rights while Stopping destructive projects and addressing of communities that depend on them. We work to stop promoting real solutions for meeting water, energy and legacy dams destructive dams and promote water and energy solutions flood management needs. We believe in the power of We discourage financial, government and industry support for a just and sustainable world. people to make change happen and to champion the of harmful river projects. We hold responsible parties movement for healthy rivers and human rights. To do accountable for the damages from dams by advocating this, we work towards the following: for social reparations and ecological restoration. Empowering civil society Raising awareness Vision We have long played a key role in building the global Through social media, publications, presentations and river-protection movement and we continually strive to media work, we raise awareness about the deplorable Rivers are vital to sustaining all life on earth. We seek broaden and strengthen its reach. We foster grassroots environmental, economic and human rights impacts of a world where healthy rivers and the rights of local organizations in more than 60 countries and build the big dams and the viability of better options. By amplifying communities are valued and protected. We envision a capacity of our regional partners by providing technical the voices of the people directly affected by large projects, world where water and energy needs are met without and strategic advice to activists and affected people. we ensure that their opinions are included in the ongoing degrading nature or increasing poverty, and where public debates about alternative models of development. people have the right to participate in decisions that Changing the terms of the debate affect their lives. We work to reform the top-down, opaque decision- Promoting solutions making processes that accompany large dam projects. We promote efficient, decentralized and just solutions We seek to ensure that important social and to meeting our water and energy needs that will alleviate As you read this report, you will learn environmental issues are not swept under the rug and poverty and protect our planet. We help partners find more about our work from the global and local that all communities have the opportunity to viable alternatives to destructive big dams through in-depth research and then support them as they present lens, including our 2012 flagship campaigns: meaningfully and effectively participate in local decision-making processes. such analyses to decision makers. Amazônia Viva — Page 4 Save the Mekong — Page 6 Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers — Page 8 ALL IMAGES IN THIS PUBLICATION BY INTERNATIONAL RIVERS STAFF UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED Annual Report 2012 3 TOMÁS MUÑITA TOMÁS MUÑITA TOMÁS Amazônia Viva Ashaninka children watch the Ene River in the Peruvian Amazon in front of their village — Ashaninka women on the shores of the Ene River in the an area that would be flooded by a dam. Peruvian Amazon. From our office in Brazil, International Rivers has been working for nearly 20 years to protect What are we campaigning for in the Amazon? threatened rivers, biodiversity and indigenous communities. Our Amazon Program aims to • To halt construction of the most destructive dams in strengthen grassroots mobilization, support innovative communications and advocacy strategies, the Amazon, particularly in the Xingu, Tapajós and Marañón river basins and increase the accountability of Brazilian public and private institutions. • To shift Brazil’s energy plans to reduce hydropower From the headwater rivers in the Andes to the forest plains of Brazil, there are more than dependency and to capitalize on abundant wind and 150 dams planned for the Amazon Basin, including 60 large dams. Brazil’s industrial growth solar resources model is driving this new dam boom, which would electrify the extractive industries in the • To increase transparency and accountability of key Amazon rainforest and threaten the livelihoods and cultures of the thousands of indigenous financial institutions and the Brazilian government people who rely on healthy rivers. • To strengthen and connect regional movements to effectively resist on-river energy projects, advance the rights of indigenous people and other The Amazon Basin: river-dependent communities, and protect the • Is home to 60% of the planet’s remaining tropical rainforests and the source of the Earth’s greatest biodiversity biodiversity of the Amazon • Drains an area nearly the size of the continental US • Is the world’s largest source of freshwater, contributing 20% of global river flows into our oceans • Is threatened by 60 new large dams including the Belo Monte Dam, which would divert the flow of the Xingu River, devastate an extensive area of the Brazilian rainforest, and displace over 20,000 people 4 International Rivers On June 15, 2012, demonstrators opened a channel across an earthen coffer dam to symbolically free the Xingu River. Patagonia, Chile, Rio Baker Sin Represas. 2012: The State of the Campaign In June, we helped organize Xingu+23, a large gathering Other Latin America Program Highlights of indigenous people and other affected groups – International Rivers continued to work closely with In 2012, our Latin America team worked closely with along with activists from Brazil and around the world – indigenous people, social movements and NGOs to raise dam-affected communities in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, to protest the Belo Monte project. The gathering included awareness and public pressure for accountability of the Guatemala and Chile to raise awareness about threats the symbolic breaching of a coffer dam and freeing of the Brazilian government. Despite gross violations of domestic to their rivers and support community resistance to Xingu River 23 years after the historic first meeting of and international legislation on human rights and destructive projects. In Peru, we supported a legal indigenous people in 1989. The action was carried out environmental protection, the government forged ahead injunction by the Ashanika people of the Ene River on the eve of the UN Conference on Sustainable with the Belo Monte Dam and a series of other against the Peru-Brazil Energy Agreement.We released Development (also known as Rio+20). Days later in Rio destructive dam projects in the Amazon. Our work an alternative power development plan for Guatemala de Janeiro, a series of public events and protests with local partners focused largely on strengthening that focuses on energy efficiency and renewables while denounced attempts to market Belo Monte and other grassroots education and organizing, support for legal maintaining the health of the country’s rivers, and worked destructive dams as “clean energy” for a green economy. strategies in defense of human rights, and calling for closely with Chixoy Dam-affected communities seeking transparency and effective safeguards of the Brazilian justice and reparations. National Development Bank. Working with partners in the Patagonia Sin Represas campaign, we continued to stall the HidroAysén project in Chile through legal challenges, public scrutiny and widespread opposition. In May, Chilean company Colbún indefinitely suspended work on the transmission line EIA due to a lack of public and political agreement, leaving HidroAysén’s future uncertain.
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