March 14 is observed annually as the International Day of Action for Rivers (former title International Day against Dams, for Rivers, Water, and Life) was inspired and mandated by the participants of the First International Meeting of People Affected by Dams that took place in March, 1997 in Curitiba, Brazil. ( Curitiba Declaration ). This observance was initiated in 1998 by International Rivers, an ecological organisation located in California, USA. The participants of the first International Meeting of People Affected by Dams adopted this initiative in March 1997.

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International Day of Action for Rivers aims to raise public awareness of destructive water development projects, health and sustainable management of the watersheds. This year’s Day of Action for Rivers theme focuses on “Women, Water, and Climate Change”. Last year, 100 women from 32 countries who are leading efforts to protect and defend rivers gathered at the first ever Women and Rivers Congress. The Congress aimed to celebrate the fundamental role women play in defending and stewarding freshwater resources, and to initiate collective action challenging the gender inequities women face in safeguarding rivers and river ecosystems.

The co – founders of the mouvment are : MAB, International Rivers, European Rivers Network (ERN), India’s Save the armada Movement (NBA) and Chile’s Biobo Action Group (GABB)

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• Action and Information 2000 – today (Website International Rivers)
• In remembrance of Fulgêncio Manoel da Silva
• The International Anti-Dam Movement

The International Day of Action Against Dams:

For Rivers, Water, and Life was inspired and mandated by the participants of the First International Meeting of People Affected by Dams that took place in March, 1997 in Curitiba, Brazil. Representatives from twenty countries including Taiwan, Brazil, Chile, Lesotho, Argentina, Thailand, Russia, France, Switzerland, and the United States decided that the International Day of Action would fall on 14 March, Brazil’s Day of Action Against Large Dams. One of the goals for the Day of Action is to build and strengthen regional and international networks within the international anti-dam movement. The idea for the First International Meeting of People Affected by Dams originated during an annual meeting of Brazil’s Movement of People Affected by Large Dams (MAB).

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In September, 1995 a preparatory meeting was held in Brazil and an international organizing committee was formed headed by MAB and including International Rivers Network (IRN), India’s Save the Narmada Movement (NBA), Chile’s Biobío Action Group (GABB) and European Rivers Network (ERN).

The First International Meeting of People Affected by Dams was a successful first step in building and strengthening a global network of the dam-affected. Many of the participants reported an end to their feelings of isolation in their regional fights against governments, lending agencies, and corporations, as well as a renewed strength that they could carry back to their communities. The International Day of Action Against Dams: For Rivers, Water, and Life is the next step in strengthening the international movement. Our aim is to raise our voices in unison against destructive water development projects, reclaim the health of our rivers and watersheds, and demand the equitable and sustainable management of our waterways. By acting together, we will demonstrate that these issues are not merely local, but global in scope.

The International Anti-Dam Movement

Excerpted from Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams by Patrick McCully. Zed Books, London, 1996.

We Will Not Move: The International Anti-Dam Movement Koi nahi hatega, bandh nahi banega (No one will move, the dam will not be built) Doobenge par hatenge nahin (We will drown but we will not move) Slogans of the Narmada Bachao Andolan

The decade since the mid-1980s has seen the emergence of an international movement against current dam-building practices. The movement is comprised of thousands of environmental, human rights, and social activist groups on all the world’s continents except Antarctica. It coalesced from a multitude of local, regional and national anti-dam campaigns and a smaller number of support groups working at an international level. Dam builders recognize and bemoan its effectiveness. ICOLD President Wolfgang Pircher warned the British Dam Society in 1992 that the industry faced ‘a serious general counter-movement that has already succeeded in reducing the prestige of dam engineering in the public eye, and it is starting to make work difficult for our profession.’ The earliest successful anti-dam campaigns were mostly led by conservationists trying to preserve wilderness areas. Until recently, resistance from those directly impacted by dams was usually defeated.

Since the 1970s, however, directly affected people have gained the power to stop dams, mostly because they have built alliances with sympathetic outsiders – environmentalists, human rights and democracy activists, peasants’ and indigenous peoples’ organizations, fishers and recreationists. The rise of environmentalism has greatly helped the opponents of dams – and anti-dam campaigns have in many countries played an important role in the growth of national environmental movements. Other factors contributing to the emergence of the international movement have been the overthrow of authoritarian regimes and the spread of modern communication technologies.

Dam opponents are not just ‘antis’, but are advocates for what they see as more sustainable, equitable and efficient technologies and management practices. Political changes which would best encourage the preservation or adoption of these technologies and practices have been a central demand of many anti-dam campaigns. Struggles that have started with the aim of improving resettlement terms or of stopping an individual dam have matured into movements advocating an entirely different model of political and economic development. That decision making be transparent and democratic is now seen by many dam opponents as being as important as the decisions themselves. The clearest illustration of the wider political importance of anti-dam movements is the crucial role that dam struggles played in the pro-democracy movements of the 1980s in Eastern Europe and South America… Activists working at the local, national and international levels have together managed to seriously tarnish the lure of large dams as icons of progress and plenty.

To many people, large dams have instead become symbols of the destruction of the natural world and of the corruption and arrogance of over-powerful and secretive corporations, bureaucracies and governments. Although hundreds of large dams are still under construction and many more are on the engineers’ drawing boards, aid funds and other public sector sources of financing are drying up, and public protests are provoked by just about every large dam that is now proposed in a democratic country. The international dam industry appears to be entering a recession from which it may never escape.

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