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This page features the latest news and articles on the Tigris-Euphrates basin. For a list of Save the Tigris activities, please click here.
Ilisu Dam halted by Turkish Court
Save the Tigris Campaign welcomes the ruling of the Turkish State Council against the construction of the Ilisu dam project. This is a victory for those working against the…
Major points from the 2000 Report of the World Commission on Dams
Some see in our [water] scarcity a harbinger of troubled waters to come. They believe water scarcity inevitably locks peoples, regions and nations in a fierce, competitive struggle…
Call for Papers: Save the Tigris and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign
Call for Papers: Save the Tigris and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign Launched Sunday December the 2nd, 2013 Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI), a member in the Save…
Impacts of Ilisu Dam in Iraq: A lecture at the Marine Science Center Basra University
Iraq faces enormous challenges in terms of water resources. Once the cradle of civilizations, an agricultural haven, now Iraq’s land has dried significantly mostly due to man-made causes.…
Workshop on the Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign, ICSSI Conference 201
You are invited to participate in a workshop on the Save the Tigris Campaign that will be held in Basra. This session will be part of the IV…
Open Letter on the Impacts for Iraq of the Construction of the Ilisu Dam in Turkey
To: The Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, and through him to all relevant government representatives and members of the Iraqi Parliament, The Speaker…
New global partnership for Save the Tigris Campaign
ICSSI would like to announce that it has a new global partner for our Save the Tigris and Mesopotamia Campaign: 350.org. 350.org works to build a global grassroots…
The Tigris Declaration To Save Hasankeyf and Mesopotamian Marshes
The international campaign against the Ilisu dam project on the Tigris river has reached a new threshold: nearly 25 000 have signed the petition to the UNESCO World Heritage…
Flooding the Cradle of Civilization: Campaign Against the Ilisu Dam
By Johanna L. Rivera Last year around this time I was in a town called Hasankeyf located along the Tigris River in the Batman Province in Turkey. The…
Marsh Arabs protest Ilisu Project in Hasankeyf
Cradle of Civilization at Risk of Desertification: Tigris Declaration sent to UN Hasankeyf, Turkey, May 22, 2012 “We have come from Iraq to speak, because no one came…
Launch of petition to save World Heritage in Mesopotamia threatened by the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River
Launch of petition to save World Heritage in Mesopotamia threatened by the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River Today a worldwide petition addressed to the UNESCO World Heritage…
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