AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program

Chixoy Dam Legacy Issues Study

Study Recommendations

The Chixoy Dam Legacy Issues Study recommendations include:

• Immediate actions to address the dire needs of resettled, disenfranchised, and stigmatized communities;
• Economic, sociocultural, education, health, and infrastructure development of dam affected communities and the broader region;
• Implementation of community and family specific remedies to restore, repair, and improve the conditions of life of those communities and families most seriously affected by the Chixoy Dam Project;
• Reparation and reconciliation with respect to violence accompanying the construction of the Chixoy Dam; and
• Political actions and initiatives that acknowledge and address the historical wrongs of this case of hydroelectric dam development subsidized by the lands, livelihood and lives of societies' most vulnerable people, and political action that insures "never again."

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