Zusammenfassung der Ressource
What is the Role of Human Rights in the
Mekong?
- Committees
- Commerce
- Interested in the
buying and selling
or trading aspects
concerning the
Mekong River
- Support
- Trade provides
income for people
- Tourism
- Interested in
the tourism
aspect of the
Mekong and
the reasons
people visit it
- Support
- Provides jobs
and income for
people
- Agriculture
- Interested in the
agriculture and
food security of
the poor people
in the Mekong
- Support
- Food security
- Human Rights
- Interested in
helping the
poor people
along the
Mekong and
their needs
- Energy
- Interested in the
generation of
energy from the
Mekong River
- Not support
- Try to stop
too many
dam
proposals
- Less dams, invest in more
alternative sources of
energy
- microhydro
power
- wind/solar energy
- If not, huge project
like Xayaburi dam
can bring irrevocable
changes
- Permanent
damage ecology
and ecosystem o
river
- Forcibly relocate
over 2,100 people
- Affect 202,000 people
- Endanger fishes
- Mekong Giant Catfish
- Environment
- Interested in
maintaining and
mitigating damage
of the environment
of the Mekong by
development
projects and dams
- Support
- Better
environment
- Healthy, more fish
- Food security
- Issues with
Human Rights
- Food security
- Energy
Committee
- Construct
minimal, and
necessary
amount of dams
- Mitigates risk
on fish and river
ecology
- More available
food for income
and
consummation
- River will start to flourish again
- Share issue with
Agriculture and
Environment
Committees/stakeholders
- Unjust
Compensation
- Construction
stakeholder
- Employ men and
women to work in
projects/dams
- Part of
compensation to the
people
- Payment for food
and to live
- Unequal
electricity
Distribution
- 90% of electricity
generated from
the Xayaburi dam
will go to Thailand
and Vietnam
- Distribute
fairly and
equally among
the SE Asian
region
- Further develop
countries
- Export of
electricity to
countries
- Countries get paid
- GDP growth
- Access to internet,
electronics, better
tech
- Background of whole
issue
- Environment/Climate
- Dams and
development
projects in
Mekong River
- Changing the
ecology and river
flow
- Bad/undesirable
climate changes
- Droughts or floods
- Poor people suffer
- Threaten Marine life
- Irrawwady dolphins
nearly extinct
- No other species can survive
- Top of food chain
- Overfishing
- Not much fish left
- Threaten people's
food security and
income/trade