Published: May 2007

Organization: EarthRights International

In March 2006, the Federation of Native Communities of the Corrientes River (FECONACO) asked EarthRights International (ERI) to undertake a mission to the Corrientes River basin in the northeastern Peruvian Amazon to investigate the social, environmental, and human rights impacts of more than 30 years of petroleum production activities. One year later in conjunction with the filing of a lawsuit against Occidental Petroleum, this report of ERI's findings was released. This report summarizes the impacts of Occidental's activities in the region as well as explains the legal grounds for civil demands due to Oxy's deliberate use of substandard technology.

Under the Boot - The Burma Army clears the way for Chinese dams on the Shweli River

Organization: Ta'ang Students and Youth Organization

AThis is the story of Man Tat village, a hamlet of 700 ethnically Palaung tea and rice farmers, fishers, hunters, mothers, and children. The village is located 90 kilometers from the Chinese town of Ruili, inside northern Burma. In late 2000, 300 armed soldiers from Burma's army converged on the village and set up a permanent base there. Unbeknownst to the villagers, Burma's military junta was planning to build a hydropower dam in their sacred Shweli River togheter with Chinese companies. Nothing has been the same since.