International Rivers celebrates the historic advisory opinion delivered by the International Court of Justice on the ...

Background In a new study, International Rivers and Irigaray e Associados, Análise Juridica da Legislação Ambiental Brasileira, reveal a potentially transformative legal approach to protecting ...

A two-day workshop brought together NGO and community partners from Namibia, Guinea, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to ...

On June 3, 2025, the World Bank approved $250 million funding for the Inga 3 Dam, a mega hydropower project on the Congo ...

International Rivers expresses its profound concern over yesterday’s passage of Bill 2159/21 in the Brazilian Congress, which ...

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

Today, the Goldman Environmental Prize announced its 2025 slate of winners, including Mariluz Canaquiri Murayari, a grandmother, community organizer, and Indigenous Kukama leader from the Peruvian ...

History The International Day of Action Against Dams and For Rivers, Water and Life was adopted by the participants of the first International Meeting of People Affected by Dams, in March of 1997 in ...

For decades, the western United States was ground zero for one of the greatest experiments humans had ever undertaken: replumbing the world’s rivers. As Marc Reisner cataloged so forcefully in the ...