International
Colombia: Controversy in Colombia for a Decree That Allows Shark Hunting to Market Their Fins
Oct 31, 2019
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Martime Herald
The Ministry of Agriculture issued a resolution that fixes the amounts guaranteed for the fishing of these animals, which aroused the outrage of environmental sectors…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Increases Use of Renewable Energy Sources
Oct 31, 2019
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Wadsam
Afghanistan has ample hydropower resources. In recent years, the Afghan government has focused on mobilizing power from those hydropower plants that were under construction or…
Myanmar: Landmine Casualties Soar in First Nine Months
Oct 31, 2019
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Htoo Thant, Myanmar Times
Forty-two people were killed by landmine explosions across the country in the first nine months of this year, a senior social welfare official said on…
Myanmar: Small Miners Protest over Gem Blocks
Oct 31, 2019
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Kyaw Ko Ko, Myanmar Times
Residents of Mogok township in Mandalay Region are protesting what they say is the unfair allocation of mining concessions, with small miners being assigned to unproductive…
South Sudan: Floods Threaten to Derail South Sudan’s Recovery
Oct 31, 2019
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Obi Anyadike, New Humanitarian
Severe flooding in South Sudan has affected close to a million people, threatening to reverse some of the humanitarian gains made during a year-long ceasefire…
Syria: Trump Wants US Companies to Tap Syria’s Oil, Despite Experts Warning That Could Be a War Crime
Oct 31, 2019
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Negar Mortazavi, Independent
Having provoked bipartisan and international condemnation for abruptly announcing a withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria, effectively greenlighting the subsequent Turkish incursion into largely Kurdish-held…
Conflict Minerals: Europe-Led Global Certification Scheme for Raw Materials Expected in 2020
Oct 30, 2019
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Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.com
A group of European bodies and companies have joined efforts to create the first global certification scheme ensuring consistent standards of environmental, social and economic…
Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: United States to Host Nov. 6 Meeting over Nile Dam Dispute
Oct 30, 2019
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Africanews
The United States is set to host Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia on November 6, with a view of resolving a dispute over the latter’s hydropower…
Liberia: Liberia’s Forest Management Guide Launched
Oct 30, 2019
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William Q. Harmon, Observer
A forest management guide intended to ensure the effective management and monitoring of forest resources in the country has been launched in Monrovia. Officially unveiled…
Rwanda: Rwanda Protests Mineral Traceability Scheme
Oct 30, 2019
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Julius Bizimungu, New Times
Rwanda has said that the ITSCI programme, an international scheme designed to regulate minerals mined from the Central African region, is expensive, unnecessary and prohibitive…
Argentina/United Kingdom: Meet the Zimbabweans Who Remove Mines on the Malvinas
Oct 30, 2019
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Buenos Aires Times
Back in 1999 a company called Bactec, which was one of several to later merge into SafeLane Global, was contracted to clear two million mines…
Netherlands: How Fairphone's Social Mission Created Gender Balance ... Without Really Trying
Oct 30, 2019
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Oliver Balch
Eva Gouwens had heard that the tech industry was male-dominated, but it wasn’t until she attended the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona for the first…
Colombia: Colombia, Aún Lejos de Hacer las Paces con el Medioambiente (Colombia, Still Far from Making Peace with the Environment)
Oct 29, 2019
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Laura Betancur Alarcón, El Tiempo
En 2016, con la firma de los acuerdos de paz, los ojos de cientos de investigadores y ambientalistas estaban en Colombia. Había esperanza. Si este…
Syria: WFP Scaling up to Reach More Vulnerable People in the Conflict-Affected Northeast of Syria
Oct 29, 2019
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World Food Programme
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says it has so far provided emergency food assistance to more than 300,000 people in Syria as a…
Colombia's Ex-Rebels Remove Mines They Left during War
Oct 29, 2019
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Florence Panoussian, International Business Times
A grenade blew off the hands of onetime FARC guerrilla Edwin Correa, but he only surrendered his rifle once a peace deal was struck nearly…
Colombia: People Choosing Peace: Women's Advocacy Group in Colombia Spread Hope With Quilt Project
Oct 29, 2019
Yolanda Perea Mosquera and other women’s rights advocates in Colombia are sewing a colorful quilt. They plan to spread it out over the central square…
Myanmar: Improvement of Agricultural Livelihoods and Resilience for Conflict Affected Communities
Oct 29, 2019
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
The objective of "Improvement of agricultural livelihoods and resilience for conflict affected communities in ethnic minority area" is to improve household food security and in…
South Sudan: South Sudan to Offer Oil Blocks for Licensing by Q1 2020
Oct 29, 2019
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Denis Dumo, Reuters
South Sudan plans to offer 14 oil blocks to exploration companies in a licensing round by the first quarter 2020, its oil minister said on…
India: Mother Earth’s Café Dares Climate Crises in India
Oct 29, 2019
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Manipadma Jena, Inter Press Service
The sun has barely risen when Phlida Kharshala shakes her 8-year-old grandson awake. He hoists an empty cone-shaped bamboo basket on his back, sets the…
South Sudan: “Our Better Lives Do Not Lie In Machine Guns” – Women Call For Peace In Bor
Oct 29, 2019
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Mach Samuel, United Nations Missions in South Sudan
“Our better lives do not lie in machine guns.”
Those were the words of Rachael Amuor Pach, the Jonglei Minister for Gender, Child and Social Welfare,…
Security Council Urges Recommitment to Women, Peace, Security Agenda, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2492 (2019)
Oct 29, 2019
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United Nations
The Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2492 (2019) today, urging States to recommit themselves to its women, peace and security agenda — now approaching its twentieth anniversary…
Myanmar: Govt: Cause of Polluted Water in Myanmar’s Karen State Still Unclear
Oct 29, 2019
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Thazin Hlaing, Irrawaddy
The Karen State government is still investigating why contaminated water is flowing into lakes that provide drinking water for villages near the state capital of…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Kicks off Tender for Another 40 MW Solar Project
Oct 28, 2019
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Emiliano Bellini, PV Magazine
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Energy & Water has issued a tender for a 40 MW solar project at an unspecified location in Herat province, in the…
The Power of Women Peacebuilders
Oct 28, 2019
Women do groundbreaking work for justice, peace and security. Yet, they continue to be sidelined in formal peace processes. As conflict continues to affect every…
Climate Change: Former Homeland Security Secretaries Talk Climate and Security
Oct 28, 2019
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Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia, Center for Climate and Security
In case you missed it: In a September 9 hearing on “Homeland Security and Terrorism” before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, two former Secretaries of Homeland Security…
Former Ambassador Says Trump Repeating ISIS Talking Point with 'Talk about Taking Oil from Other Nations'
Oct 28, 2019
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Jason Lemon, Newsweek
Former U.S. Ambassador Nancy Soderberg criticized President Donald Trump for publicly arguing in favor of keeping Middle Eastern oil in Syria and Iraq, saying that…
Sudan/South Sudan: Bound by Oil: How Petroleum Is Bringing Sudan and South Sudan Closer Together
Oct 26, 2019
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Denis Scopas, MIddle East Eye
For the past eight years since South Sudan gained independence from Sudan, a legacy of violence has marred relations between the new state and its…
Syria: Trump Keeps Talking about Syria's Oil Fields. Here's What's Going on with Them
Oct 26, 2019
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Madeleine Carlisle, Time
As the Trump administration pulls American troops away from Syria’s northern border, the President has repeatedly insisted that the region’s oil has been “secured,” even…
South Sudan: South Sudan Floods Affect 1 Million People
Oct 25, 2019
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Deutsche Welle
Almost 1 million people have been displaced or otherwise affected by extreme flooding in South Sudan, according to a United Nations report released on Friday. Heavy flooding…
Myanmar: Myanmar’s Energy Prospects, Emergency Tenders and Renewables
Oct 24, 2019
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John Liu, Myanmar Times
Katie Patterson of Myanmar Energy Monitor talks to The Myanmar Times about the impact of Myanmar’s electricity tariff hikes, next year’s blackout risks, the potential…