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For over 15 years, Amazon Watch has stood with the indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin, helping build a global movement of forest guardians, while using creative and effective strategies to confront urgent threats to one of our living planet's most precious resources.
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The Brazilian government has issued the full installation license to begin construction of the controversial Belo Monte Dam, but the people of the Xingu River have no intention of backing down now.
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Watch this powerful video about the struggle for justice in the Amazon, narrated by actor and Amazon Watch supporter Peter Coyote.
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The unrelenting drive for oil has reached the deepest regions of the Peruvian Amazon – the Canadian oil company Talisman Energy has begun to drill exploratory wells in the ancestral homeland of the Achuar people.
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Defending the Amazon is a defining battle of our time and has the potential to shift the balance towards justice, ecological balance and the recognition of our interdependence on nature and living systems. In this year's Amazon in Focus, we share stories from this struggle.
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The Kichwa of Ecuador's central rainforest bring their eight-year struggle for justice to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The outcome of the case will have ripple effects throughout the Amazon.
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James Cameron produced this special feature about the battle to stop the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu, one of the great tributaries of the Amazon River.
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This briefing paper focuses on the roles and responsibilities of companies, investors and finance institutions to identify, prevent and address the adverse human rights impacts of company operations.
