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Ukraine: Buyer for Water and Habitat (WatHab) – Kyiv

Jun 8, 2024 | International Committee of the Red Cross

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of…


Chad: Sudan - WASH Coordinator (m/f) - Based in Ndjamena (Chad)

Jun 8, 2024 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International is an international humanitarian aid association which, since more than 40 years, has been providing assistance to populations affected by armed conflicts and…


Ukraine: Call for Applications: Programme Policy Officer SC8 (Kyiv, Dnipro, Odesa, Lviv, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv)

Jun 8, 2024 | World Food Programme

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability…


Ukraine: Call for Applications: Programme Associate SC6 | Multiple Duty Stations in Ukraine

Jun 8, 2024 | World Food Programme

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability…


Chad: Programme Specialist – Climate and Security Risk – the Lake Chad Basin Commission

Jun 7, 2024 | United Nations Development Programme

UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the…


Remote: Senior Mediation Adviser, Multiple positions

Jun 7, 2024 | UNOPS Development Group

Based in New York, the UNOPS Development and Special Initiatives Portfolio supports diverse partners with their peacebuilding, humanitarian and development operations. The portfolio manages the…


DRC: Society Artisanal Partners with Minespider to Track Conflict-Free Gold from the DRC

Jun 6, 2024 | Jane Bentham, Global Mining Review

Society Artisanal, an organisation that aims to export conflict-free artisanal gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has announced its partnership with Minespider, a…


Afghanistan: 'Critical' Lack of Clean Water Stalks Flood-Hit Afghanistan

Jun 5, 2024 | Mahdi Mehran, Susannah Walden, and Abdullah Hasrat

After unusually heavy spring rainfalls unleashed torrents of muddy water that swept away loved ones and livelihoods across multiple Afghan provinces last month, it is clean…


Myanmar: Myanmar’s Multibillion-Dollar Jade Trade ‘Crashing’ as China Clamps Down

Jun 5, 2024 | Irrawaddy

Myanmar’s multibillion-dollar jade market is collapsing under pressure from China’s crackdown on illicit border trade, according to sources. Jade sales in Mandalay at the country’s…


How Setting Gender-Sensitive Targets Can Boost Climate Action

Jun 5, 2024 | EIGE

Climate change affects everyone, but not equally. Women are often disproportionately affected by it, in particular single mothers, single women, women with disabilities and elderly…


Breaking Gendered Barriers: Exploring the Nexus Between Youth, Climate Change, Migration, and Gender

Jun 5, 2024 | Yasmina Benslimane

Climate change has emerged as one of the most pressing issues of our time, triggering consequences that reverberate across all borders. As the planet's climate continues to…


"Our Land. Our Future”: A Call to Action for National Stewardship in Land Restoration in Liberia

Jun 5, 2024 | Louis Kuukpen

Liberia's commitment to environmental protection is longstanding. Since the nation participated in the historic 1972 United Nations Conference on the Environment in Stockholm, Liberia has…


Call for Volunteers: CEOBS Board of Trustees

Jun 5, 2024 | Conflict and Environment Observatory

CEOBS is a UK charity launched in 2018 to raise awareness of the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts and military activities. It uses the information…


Oil in the Crosshairs: Environment, Peace, and Security Implications from the War in Sudan and Spillover Effects on South Sudan

Jun 4, 2024 | PAX

In this research blog PAX will provide a brief analysis of the political and environmental implications of the war on Sudanese and South Sudanese oil…


A Climate Crisis is a Gender Equality Crisis: Life on Small Island States in the Pacific

Jun 4, 2024 | United Nations Population Fund

The 65 million people living in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are on the front lines of the climate crisis.

Each and every climate-related disaster -…


Afghanistan: MoEW Predicts Flash Floods, Rise in Rivers’ Water Level

Jun 4, 2024 | Sharifa Sultani, Pajhwok Afghan News

The Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW) has predicted relatively heavy rains, flash floods and rising water level in rivers over the next two days.


Afghanistan: UNICEF Announces Drinking Water Distribution for Thousands in Ghor Province

Jun 4, 2024 | Fidel Rahmati, Khaama Press

According to UNICEF, over 400 houses have been destroyed in Ghor province due to recent floods. The organization has also distributed blankets, children’s clothing, and…


Land Degradation Neutrality and Restoration: Does Gender Matter?

Jun 4, 2024 | Sharon S. Thawaney and Debosmita Sarkar

Marking the 30th anniversary of the United Nations (UN) Convention to Combat Desertification, this year’s World Environment Day is focusing on a related key pillar of…


National Climate Action Plans Must Include Military Emissions

Jun 4, 2024 | Linsey Cottrell

COP28 agreed that countries must submit new Nationally Determined Contributions by February 2025. These transparent national plans for climate action play an important role in…


The Future of Central Asian Water Diplomacy

Jun 4, 2024 | Eleanor Greenbaum

Central Asia is known for its rich mineral resources and oil reserves, and its unique geographic position between Russia, China, and Iran. But it is…


Building Trust, Building Peace: Role of Confidence-Building Measures on Korean Peninsula

Jun 4, 2024 | Simon Hutagalung

The Korean Peninsula has a long history of tension and conflict. The relationship between North and South Korea is complicated by historical grievances ideological differences…


Call for Applications: Law, Policy and Science in Environmental Peacebuilding

Jun 4, 2024 | Geneva Water Hub

Join the Geneva Water Hub in Ljubljana from September 30 to October 4, 2024 for a transformative five-day training course on Law, Policy and Science…


Burning Burdens: Unveiling the Gendered Toll of Rising Temperatures on Women in India

Jun 3, 2024 | Liz M. Kuriakose

The number of unusually hot days and nights on Earth is rising and becoming more common. Heat waves develop over a region as high-pressure systems…


Africa: Land Squeeze: The Hidden Battle for Africa’s Soils

Jun 3, 2024 | Susan Chomba and Million Belay, African Arguments

In recent years, Africa has been at the epicentre of an alarming global trend: the land squeeze. The 2007-8 global financial crisis unleashed a huge…


Climate Change: Women, Peace, and Security and the Climate Change Agenda

Jun 3, 2024 | Alicia Lopez Alvarez, World Vision

Climate change is a critical threat to 21st-century peace and security, with significant gender dimensions influencing how insecurity is experienced and managed by women and…


Colombia: Armed Groups Use Deforestation as a Bargaining Chip in Colombia

Jun 3, 2024 | Alex Price, Inside Climate News

Guerillas once protected the forests that provided them with cover, but recently some factions see the trees, critical to the nation’s climate commitments, as leverage…


Women, Peace, and Security & the Climate Change Agenda

Jun 3, 2024 | Alicia L. Alvarez

Climate change is a critical threat to 21st-century peace and security, with significant gender dimensions influencing how insecurity is experienced and managed by women and…


After the Deluge: One Year on, Can the Ecosystems Disrupted by the Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam Recover?

Jun 3, 2024 | Oleksiy Vasyliuk and Eugene Simonov

Hydropower dams, often unsafe even in peacetime, become a weapon of mass destruction in times of war. The sabotage of the Kakhovka hydropower plant on…


Afghanistan: Taliban Issues over 500 Licences for Emerald Mining in Panjshir

Jun 2, 2024 | Afghanistan International

Mohammad Qasim Amiri, the Taliban's head of mining in Panjshir, has announced that illegal mining and smuggling of minerals and precious stones in the province…


Afghanistan: Taliban and the Plundering of Mines: Companies and Countries Lack the Right to Contract without a Legitimate Government

Jun 1, 2024 | Amin Kawa, Hasht-e Subh Daily

In the nearly three years since the Taliban’s rise to power, they have significantly expanded the unregulated and illegal extraction of the country’s mineral resources.…