Mekong River dam will have dire impacts on the livelihoods, food security and environment of communities both upstream and downstream of the project.

The Don Sahong dam is a hydropower project under construction on the mainstream of the Mekong River in southern Laos, less than two kilometers upstream from the border with Cambodia. Construction began in January 2016. If completed, the dam will have dire impacts on the livelihoods, food security and environment of communities both upstream and downstream of the project. In 2014, ERI and a coalition of NGOs filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) against Mega First Corporation Berhad, the Malaysian company developing the dam.