International
Philippines/South China Sea: Duterte Bans Philippines Cabinet from Speaking on South China Sea
May 18, 2021
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Al Jazeera
Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, has barred his cabinet from publicly discussing the South China Sea dispute after key ministers rebuked Beijing over…
China/Philippines/South China Sea: Philippines Ignores China Fishing Ban in Disputed Waters
May 14, 2021
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Ralph Jennings, Voice of America
The Philippine government took another step this month in opposing China by telling its vast fishing fleet to ignore Beijing’s annual fishing ban in the…
Chile: Chile Indigenous: Time to Make Our Voices Heard
May 14, 2021
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BBC
Replacing it had been one of the demands made in nationwide protests which swept through the country in 2019. This weekend, Chileans are being asked to…
Kenya: Women and Youth Are Leading Kenya’s Coral Reef Revival
May 14, 2021
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Sophie Mbugua, Climate Home News
Five years ago, 20-year-old Said Abdallah was struggling with alcohol and drug addiction while living on Wasini Island, located in the Indian Ocean, 3 kilometres…
Kurdistan: Kurdistan Amends Repayment Terms to IOCs, Citing Higher Oil Prices, Pandemic Stress
May 13, 2021
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Herman Wang, S&P Global Platts
The Kurdistan Regional Government plans to slash payments owed for previous shortfalls to international oil producers operating in the semi-autonomous region of Iraq, citing the…
Vietnam: Agent Orange Case: After Defeat, Woman, 79, Vows to Keep Up Fight
May 12, 2021
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Alexander Durie, Al Jazeera
The landmark trial between a 79-year-old Vietnamese-French woman and 14 chemical multinationals was always going to be a David and Goliath legal battle. Trần Tố Nga…
Lebanon/Syria: Syrian Landmines Wash into Lebanon Due to Floods
May 12, 2021
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Najia Houssari, Arab News
As authorities continue to find and extract landmines left behind from the Lebanese Civil War, a new wave of explosives has entered the country’s border…
Indonesia: Feature-Eco-friendly Eid - the Indonesian Women on a Mission to Plant Trees
May 12, 2021
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Harry Jacques, Reuters
On a grass verge by a road dissecting miles of rice fields in Central Java province, a group of volunteers with ‘Aisyiyah, Indonesia’s oldest Islamic…
Myanmar: Gender-Based Violence in Myanmar and the Military Coup
May 12, 2021
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Matthew Brown, Borgen Magazine
Myanmar has long struggled as a multicultural society governed primarily through the ethnic Burmese-led military known as the Tatmadaw. The conflict exists since gaining independence…
Myanmar: Myanmar’s Anti-Coup Protesters Defy Rigid Gender Roles – and Subvert Stereotypes about Women to Their Advantage
May 12, 2021
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Ei Hlaing, The Conversation
One of the first signs of the military coup that overthrew Myanmar’s democratically elected civilian government was a Facebook Live video of regional lawmaker Pa Pa Han being arrested,…
DRC: DR Congo to Suffer $4bn Shortfall from Gertler Contracts: Activists
May 12, 2021
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Agence France-Presse
The Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to suffer a shortfall of nearly four billion dollars from mining and oil contracts that it signed…
United States: Why Indigenous Women are Risking Arrest to Fight Enbridge’s Line 3 Pipeline through Minnesota
May 10, 2021
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Hilary Beaumont, Environment Health News
After a six-year-long permitting process, Enbridge contractors in Minnesota are building Line 3, the largest project in the company's history. If completed, it will carry…
Afghanistan: Women, Girls, and Afghanistan’s Missing Justice
May 10, 2021
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The New Humanitarian
Rights groups say girls were the clear target of the 8 May violence, when a series of explosions erupted as many students were leaving class.…
Liberia: Pres. Weah to Constitute Committee to Probe Nimba Land Dispute
May 10, 2021
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Global News Network
President George Manneh Weah has disclosed plan to set up a committee that will be charged with the responsibility to thoroughly investigate the land dispute…
Myanmar: Trafficking of Banned Myanmar Teak Lands German Company with $4m Fine
May 10, 2021
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Nicolás Bustamante Hernández, Mongabay
WOB Timber, a logging company based in Hamburg, Germany, has been ordered by a court to pay a $4 million fine for illegally trading Myanmar…
Afghanistan: 75pc of Mining Sites Controlled by Militants and Strongmen
May 10, 2021
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Ahmad Sohaib Hasrat, Pajhwok Afghan News
A table of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) shows that of 748 mining areas in different parts of Afghanistan, about 283 are controlled…
Myanmar: China Alarmed after Strategic Oil Pipeline Station in Myanmar Is Attacked
May 8, 2021
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Atul Aneja, Daiji World
Alarm bells are ringing loud and clear in China after Myanmar protesters have attacked a monitoring station of a strategic pipeline that ferries oil to…
Four Months into Brexit, the UK and France Have Resorted to Gunboat Diplomacy over Fish
May 6, 2021
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Luke McGee, CNN
Take a glance at the British media and you'd be forgiven for thinking that the UK was preparing for war with France. On Wednesday night,…
Philippines: Tausug Women in Conflict Areas Find Solution to Food Security
May 5, 2021
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Liza Abubakar-Jocson, Manila Bulletin
A simple gardening program in Sulu is bringing soldiers and residents together to address the root of poverty and conflict in island communities. Tausug women…
Afghanistan: At Least 19 Killed after Flash Floods in Western Afghanistan
May 5, 2021
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Anadolu Agency
At least 19 people were killed in flash floods caused by heavy downpour in Afghanistan's western Herat province, the country's officials said Tuesday. Heavy rains…
Iraq: Circular Solution to Mosul’s Conflict Debris Launched
May 4, 2021
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UN Environment Programme
Mosul – Iraq’s second largest city – suffered massive devastation during the conflict with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). An estimated…
Myanmar: Political Instability Puts Myanmar’s Biggest Mangrove Forest at Risk
May 4, 2021
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Burma News International
Wun Paik mangrove forest, the biggest of its kind in Myanmar, has seen increased logging since the military coup in February, according to Ramree Township…
Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan Agree New Ceasefire after Border Clashes
May 1, 2021
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Al Jazeera
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have agreed what they called a complete ceasefire after reports of fresh shooting and troop build-ups in the aftermath of border clashes…
China/India/Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan: Press Review: What Sparked the Tajik-Kyrgyz Conflict and China Beating India in S. Asia
Apr 30, 2021
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TASS
A conflict over a disputed water distribution facility on the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, which broke out on the morning of April 29, quickly…
Afghanistan: La Niña Looms Large over One-Third of Afghan Population Acutely Food Insecure Today
Apr 30, 2021
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
One in three Afghans are acutely food insecure, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released by the Government of the…
Climate Change: Climate Crisis: Our Children Face Wars over Food and Water, EU Deputy Warns
Apr 30, 2021
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Fiona Harvey, Guardian
Older people will have to make sacrifices in the fight against climate change or today’s children will face a future of fighting wars for water…
Vietnam: Gender Equality Integration Crucial to Climate Policies in Vietnam
Apr 29, 2021
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Vietnam Plus
Adding the gender issue to climate change policies is crucial to promoting gender equality in Vietnam, according to Deputy Director of the Institute of Strategy…
Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan: Four Die as Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan Armies Clash on Disputed Border
Apr 29, 2021
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Associated Press
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan traded blame on Thursday for cross-border shelling and clashes that left at least four people dead and dozens injured in a conflict…
Iraq: ‘There’s No Rain’: Climate Change Threatens Iraq’s Bedouins
Apr 28, 2021
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Simona Foltyn, Al Jazeera
During a two-day trip across Muthanna’s deserts, nomadic herders painted a grim picture of an increasingly uninhabitable environment, where temperature increases and erratic rains have…
Afghanistan: How Afghanistan’s President Helped His Brother Secure Lucrative Mining Deals with a US Contractor
Apr 28, 2021
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Margaux Benn and Zack Kopplin, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
With the stroke of a pen, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani put his sibling into the chromite business with a tarnished U.S. defense contractor.