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CALL FOR ARTISTIC SUBMISSIONS: Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

Sep 2, 2025 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the University of Ottawa

The Arts Initiative of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) and the University of Ottawa are delighted to announce the call for artistic contributions for the Fourth…

Afghanistan: Women Mushroom Farmers in Kabul Seek Cold Storages

Sep 2, 2025 | Sonita Azizi
Pajhwok Afghan News

A number of women in Kabul, working with diligent hands and hopeful hearts to cultivate mushrooms using straw, lime and bran, say they need cold…

Afghanistan: Afghan Activists Urge UN to Halt Hazara Displacement and Land Seizures

Sep 1, 2025
ShiaWaves

Over 100 Afghan civil society groups and human rights activists have called on the United Nations to intervene urgently to stop the systematic displacement and…

Bangladsesh: Govt. Prioritizes Swift Compensation for Victims of Human-Elephant Conflict: Rizwana

Sep 1, 2025
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan today reaffirmed the government's commitment to promoting peaceful human-elephant coexistence, saying that streamlining and revising current…

Afghanistan: Eastern Afghanistan Earthquakes Threaten Livestock Farming and Family Income Sources

Sep 1, 2025
Hasht-E Subh

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that the devastating earthquakes in eastern Afghanistan severely threaten the livestock sector.

Afghanistan/Tajikistan: Chinese Gold Mining Provokes Battle between Taliban and Tajikistan

Sep 1, 2025 | Dmytro Shumlianskyi
MILITARNYI

The first military clash in three years between Tajik border guards and TDF militants took place on the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan. The clash…

Afghanistan: Country Director

Sep 1, 2025 | People in Need

People in Need (PIN) is a Czech NGO providing relief and development assistance in over 20 countries worldwide. Formed in 1992, PIN has grown into…

DRC: Site Director, Okapi Wildlife Reserve

Sep 1, 2025 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has been active in the OWR for more than 30 years, supporting its creation, and subsequently working closely with ICCN…

DRC: Rotational Associate / Manager (Renewable)

Sep 1, 2025 | One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to…

Syria/Lebanon/Turkey: Food System Strengthening (FSS) Lead, Türkiye, Syria and Lebanon

Sep 1, 2025 | Welthungerhilfe

The position is to be filled as soon as possible, with an initial contract duration of one year. There are very good prospects for an…

Niger: Expert Principal en Évaluation Environnementale et Sociale

Sep 1, 2025 | Société de Développement International

La mission du Consultant porte sur la conception d’un projet d’électrification et d’accès à l’électricité dont le financement pourrait être mobilisé, justifiant les études complètes…

Niger: Expert en Électrification Rurale

Sep 1, 2025 | Société de Développement International

Uganda: Agronomist - Karamoja - Ugandan Nationals Only

Sep 1, 2025 | Insieme si può

Insieme Si Puo' - ISP in Africa is a non-profit making organization based in Uganda since 1983, it has two territorial offices in Kampala and Moroto,…

Uganda: Advisor for Environmental Peacebuilding (m/f/x)

Sep 1, 2025 | AGIAMONDO e.V.

AGIAMONDO e.V. is the personnel service of German Catholics for development cooperation. In the Civil Peace Service, we offer professionals the opportunity for meaningful service in…

Sudan/South Sudan: Sudan Orders Oil Shutdown; South Sudan Exports at Risk

Aug 31, 2025
Radio Tamazuj

Sudan’s Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has ordered an emergency shutdown of oil facilities in the Heglig area near the border with South Sudan following…

Myanmar: Myanmar Rare Earth Mines Surge in Rebel-Held Areas, Fuelling Toxic Risks

Aug 30, 2025
Nation

When it comes to rare earths, the world almost instinctively looks to China. The country is not only the global leader in rare earth processing,…

Afghanistan/Tajikistan: Armed Clash Erupts between Afghanistan and Tajikistan over Border Dispute and Mining Activities

Aug 30, 2025
AKIpress News Agency

An armed conflict occurred on August 24 in the Dawang border area of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province between Taliban forces and Tajikistan. One Taliban fighter was…

Gold in Sudan: A Resource between Looting and Smuggling… or a Tool for Post-War Recovery

Aug 29, 2025 | Omer Sidahmed

For thousands of years, gold has been tied to Sudan’s identity—from the kingdoms of Kush and Napata to the inscriptions left by the Pharaohs who…

Liberia: Liberian Communities Await Justice at Salala Rubber Plantation after World Bank Complaint

Aug 29, 2025 | Victoria Schneider
Mongabay

Five months after the World Bank’s private investment arm submitted its action plan to address community grievances against a rubber plantation it funds in Liberia,…

Afghanistan/China: Contract Breach or Banditry? Inside the Collapse of the Taliban's Oil Deal with China

Aug 29, 2025 | Anthony Kuhn and Vincent Ni
NPR

Turbaned Afghan officials and hard-hatted Chinese engineers gathered in Afghanistan's Sar-e-Pul province in 2023 to mark the opening of Chinese-invested oil fields. The fields are…

Registration Now Open for Symposium on Water-Energy-Peace Nexus

Aug 29, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association and University of Ottawa

Registration has opened for a one-day hybrid Symposium on the Water-Energy-Peace Nexus, which will be hosted by the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) and the University…

Conflict at COPs: Russia’s Exit from the Ramsar Convention

Aug 28, 2025 | Eva Baudichau and Meng Wang

Russia’s withdrawal from the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands didn’t make global headlines—but it probably should have. At first glance, a wetlands convention may seem an…

Afghanistan: Foreign Investors Invited to Invest in Afghanistan's Mining Sector

Aug 28, 2025
TOLOnews

In a speech at Tatarstan's Oil and Gas Industrial Forum, Minister of Mines and Petroleum Hedayatullah Badri highlighted Afghanistan's vast oil and gas reserves and…

Why Future Wars Will Be Fought over Water Supply

Aug 26, 2025 | Patrick Yeager

In the coming years, increasing water insecurity will threaten many nations’ internal stability, challenge the viability of large cities worldwide, and worsen international conflicts. Of…

‘Carbon Colonialism’?

Aug 26, 2025 | Tina S. Mehnpaine

The Liberian government has sparked a debate with the release of its draft Carbon Development Policy, which declares that all carbon credits generated within the…

Myanmar: Over 1,300 Protected Forests across Myanmar Require Legal Protection

Aug 26, 2025 | Htet Nadi and Thet Paing
NP News

Myanmar has established and designated 1,328 reserved and protected forests as of July 31, 2025, according to data provided to The Statesman by the Forest…

Colombia: SIPRI Co-Hosts Policy Events on Climate Justice in Colombia

Aug 26, 2025
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

On 13–14 August 2025, SIPRI co-hosted a series of meetings in Bogotá, Colombia. The events brought together Colombian policymakers, regional specialists and civil society groups.…

Myanmar: Myanmar Junta Recaptures Mandalay Gold Mine

Aug 26, 2025
Irrawaddy

The military regime has taken back control of the sprawling Phayaung Taung gold mine on the border of Madaya, Patheingyi, and Pyin Oo Lwin townships…

Israel/Lebanon: 'When Bombs Turn Taps off': Israel Wrecks Lebanon's Water Systems Despite Ceasefire

Aug 26, 2025 | Sarah Khalil
New Arab

Six months after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was meant to halt fighting in Lebanon, violations persist, and hundreds of thousands of civilians remain…

Israel/Syria: Damascus Is Running out of Water. The Culprit? Climate Change, Conflict...and Israeli Land Grabs

Aug 26, 2025 | Youssef Al Ibrahim
New Arab

For the first time in half a century, Damascus and its surrounding countryside are experiencing an unprecedented water shortage that has forced authorities to implement…