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USA: DHS Releases First Ever Strategic Framework for Addressing Climate Change
Oct 22, 2021
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Kylie Bielby, Homeland Security Today
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its first Strategic Framework for Addressing Climate Change to govern the Department’s efforts to combat the climate…
Climate Change: Climate Change Poses a Widening Threat to National Security
Oct 21, 2021
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Christopher Flavelle, Julian E. Barnes, Eileen Sullivan, and Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times
Worsening conflict within and between nations. Increased dislocation and migration as people flee climate-fueled instability. Heightened military tension and uncertainty. Financial hazards. The Biden administration…
Climate Change: DOD Analysis Highlights Geostrategic Risks of Climate Change
Oct 21, 2021
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US Department of Defense
The Defense Department released an unclassified version of the Defense Climate Risk Analysis report today. As the global and cross-cutting consequences of climate change increase…
Syria: Syria Executes 24 People for Setting Wildfires, Calling It ‘Terrorism’
Oct 21, 2021
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Ben Hubbard, New York Times
The Syrian government has executed 24 people and sentenced 11 others to life in prison with hard labor for lighting wildfires that burned across the…
Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: Ethiopia Preps for Third Filling as Nile Dam Diplomacy Stalls
Oct 20, 2021
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Mohamed Saied, Al-Monitor
As negotiations remain stalled over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Ethiopia is beginning to make preparations for the third-stage filling of its mega hydroelectric dam on the…
Afghanistan: Taliban Promise Cash, Land to Families of Suicide Bombers Who Attacked US and Afghan Soldiers
Oct 20, 2021
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Sarakshi Rai, The Hill
The Taliban have promised relatives of suicide bombers who attacked U.S. and Afghan soldiers land and cash reward, The Associated Press reports. Interior Ministry spokesman Saeed Khosty tweeted…
Iraq: The Last of the Marsh Arabs
Oct 19, 2021
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Leon McCarron, Noema Magazine
What happens to a community and ecosystem at the nexus of geopolitical tensions and climate change? And can 6,000 years of history save them?
Myanmar: Thousands of Civilians Displaced by Myanmar Military Raids Hit by Floods
Oct 19, 2021
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Irrawaddy
Civilians displaced from their homes by fighting in Gangaw Township, Magwe Region have been hit by floods, according to local sources. Thousands of displaced residents…
Syria: Conflict Pollution Wrecking Syria Coast: Report
Oct 19, 2021
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Agence France-Presse
Leaks from moored tankers, underwater pipelines and wastewater systems are turning the Syrian coast into a major environmental hotspot, said a report released on Tuesday.…
South Sudan: UNHCR Responding to Worst Flooding in Decades in South Sudan
Oct 19, 2021
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UNHCR
Weeks of heavy rain have caused unrelenting floods, affecting more than 700,000 people across the country, UNHCR Representative in the country Arafat Jamal said on Tuesday.
The rains…
Palestine/Syria: Access to Natural Resources by Palestinians, Syrians Should Not Be Denied, Delegates Tell Second Committee
Oct 18, 2021
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UN
Israel’s ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories and the Syrian Golan, colliding with the impacts of the COVID‑19 pandemic, have turned into a crisis within…
Filling Gender Gap in Agriculture: Viable Opportunities for Women
Oct 17, 2021
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Sorina Buzatu
Country life may be romantic, but regional development counts too. Digitalisation can help boost gender equality and curb rural poverty
Despite women playing a key role…
Ghana: Plan International Ghana Supports Vulnerable Rural Women with WISE Project
Oct 16, 2021
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News Ghana
Plan International Ghana through its project “Women’s Innovation for Sustainable Enterprise” (WISE), is organising series of activities to commemorate this year’s International Day of Rural…
Colombia: Violence, Land Issues Pose Challenges to Colombia's Peace Process: UN Envoy
Oct 15, 2021
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Xinhua
Violence and land issues continue to pose challenges to the implementation of the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of…
Nigeria: Female Farmers Seek an End to Gender Disparities in Ownership of Land Holdings in Agriculture
Oct 15, 2021
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Great Ozozoyin
Female farmers in Taraba State have again expressed sadness at the way and manner they are often being relegated to the background in allocating lands…
International Day Honours Rural Women’s Critical Role in Feeding the World
Oct 15, 2021
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UN News
Although rural women and girls have an essential role in food systems, they still do not have equal power with men, therefore earn less, and experience higher levels of…
The Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment: 6 Things You Need to Know
Oct 15, 2021
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UN
On 8 October, loud and unusual applause reverberated around the chamber of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. A battle fought for decades by…
In a Flashpoint South Sudanese Town, Women Peacemakers Try to Bridge the Divide
Oct 14, 2021
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Natalia Ojewska
More than 18 months into a power-sharing government between South Sudan’s rival leaders, local conflicts still simmer, undermining a fragile peace accord. But in the…
North Macedonia: Women Agricultural Producers in North Macedonia Get Help to Grow Their Businesses
Oct 13, 2021
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Mirage News
Under a new measure achieved through gender-responsive budgeting, 250 women farmers received financial support to expand their businesses.
Yemen: Qat-to-Coffee for Climate Resilience and Human Security
Oct 12, 2021
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UNDP
This project aims to support improved climate security and boost employment in Yemen by piloting the transition from Qat-to-Coffee. The Qat sector has grown immensely…
Afghanistan: UN Chief Slams ‘Broken’ Taliban Promises Made to Women, Girls
Oct 11, 2021
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Al Jazeera
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has slammed the Taliban’s “broken” promises to Afghan women and girls, and urged the world to inject cash into Afghanistan in…
International Day of Rural Women Theme: Rural Women Cultivating Good Food For All
Oct 11, 2021
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Charles Mulungi
This year, the International Day of Rural Women (15 October), puts a spotlight on “Rural Women Cultivating Good Food for All.”
NEW YORK, USA, October 11,…
Iraq/Lebanon/South Sudan: UK Funding for Land Mine Clearance Scrapped in Lebanon, Iraq and S. Sudan
Oct 9, 2021
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New Arab
UK government funding for land mine clearance in Lebanon, Iraq and South Sudan, as well as three other countries, has been scrapped in what humanitarian…
Afghanistan: Meeting Former Afghan Fighters Who Now Hunt for Emeralds in Panjshir
Oct 8, 2021
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Sayed Jalal Shajjan, TRT World
After laying down their arms, a number of former soldiers with the Northern Alliance became involved in the only opportunity to make a living in…
DRC: Hydro Project Set to Boost Green Credentials of Giant DRC Copper Complex
Oct 8, 2021
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Marleny Arnoldi, Mining Weekly
While Kamoa Copper, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is on track to become the second-largest copper mining complex globally, and the biggest in…
Climate Change: Pentagon Climate Plan: Fighting Wars in Hotter, Harsher World
Oct 8, 2021
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Ellen Knickmeyer, Japan Today
A new Pentagon plan calls for incorporating the realities of a hotter, harsher Earth at every level in the U.S. military, from making worsening climate…
India: Risk Factors for Gender-Based Violence: The Case of Indian Agriculture
Oct 8, 2021
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OXFAM
The present study documents the incidence of domestic and workplace violence among Indian female agricultural workers, and the factors that put these women at risk…
Burkina Faso: Artisanal Gold Mining in Context of Violent Insecurity
Oct 7, 2021
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Mirage
Over the last 5-6 years Burkina Faso has become seriously implicated in the rapid and dramatic changes in the geopolitical situation in the Sahel. The…
Iraq: Iraq Seeks 7.5 GW of Renewable Power as It Inks 2 GW Deal with UAE's Masdar
Oct 7, 2021
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Dania Saadi, S&P Global Platts
Iraq is seeking to develop 7.5 GW of renewable power, the country's oil minister said Oct. 6, as OPEC's second-biggest producer inks a 2 GW…
Afghanistan: The New Rulers of Afghanistan: The Taliban’s Campaign to Rob Villagers of Their Land
Oct 6, 2021
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Christoph Reuter und Thore Schröder, Spiegel
The brutal landgrab in the Tagabdar Valley and two other villages in the area began in early September. Over the subsequent weeks, the expulsions were…