Itanagar, July 23 -- In a united call for environmental justice and regional peace, civil society groups, indigenous communities, farmers, forest dwellers, women's organizations, and human rights defenders across the Brahmaputra basin have raised strong objections to China's plan to build the world's largest hydroelectric dam-a 60,000 MW project at Motuo on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet.
In a detailed statement, the North East Dialogue Forum urged the People's Republic of China to immediately halt the dam's construction and to ratify the 1997 UN Convention on the Law of the
Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses, which promotes equitable and sustainable
use of shared rivers.
The proposed dam, which will generate three ...