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DRC: Conflict and Governance Program Manager
Jul 28, 2018
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries…
Afghanistan: Afghan Province Begins Push to Discourage Poppy Cultivation
Jul 28, 2018
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Sayed Salahuddin, Arab News
Helmand has long been the major narcotics-producing province in Afghanistan due to protracted war and chronic poverty. Most of the income from the multi-billion-dollar trade ends…
Iraq: Project Manager - WASH
Jul 27, 2018
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ACTED - Iraq
Since 2003, ACTED has been working in Iraq to provide humanitarian support to vulnerable populations through a multi-sectoral response to the Syrian refugee crisis and…
Iraq: Project Manager - Food Security and Livelihood
Jul 27, 2018
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ACTED - Iraq
Since 2003, ACTED has been working in Iraq to provide humanitarian support to vulnerable populations through a multi-sectoral response to the Syrian refugee crisis and…
DRC: Livelihood Officer
Jul 27, 2018
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Danish Refugee Council
Purpose of the post
Reporting to the Head of Programmes, the Livelihoods Coordinator will provide strategic vision and sectorial technical support to DRC technical Livelihoods Teams…
Jordan: Food Security and Livelihoods - Head of Department
Jul 27, 2018
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Action Contre la Faim
The Action Contre la Faim Jordan mission is dynamic and rapidly growing, with large-scale WaSH and Livelihoods programmes being implemented in host communities and the…
Syria/Jordan: Food Security and Livelihood Technical Coordinator
Jul 27, 2018
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ACTED - Syria
Since 2012, ACTED has been implementing projects with vulnerable communities in Syria with a two-fold approach: ACTED provides life-saving support to vulnerable displaced persons, returnees,…
Climate Change: UN Issues Warning of Climate Instability across Arab Region
Jul 27, 2018
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Climate Home News
Climate change threatens conflict and poverty in the Arab region, according to the UN Development Programme (UNDP). In a report, published on Wednesday, the agency suggested climate…
Colombia: Elites Unleash Wave of Killings to Protect Illegal Land Grabs
Jul 27, 2018
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Adriaan Alsema and Stephen Gill, Green Left Weekly
Business owners in northwest Colombia are conspiring with death squads to assassinate social leaders and prevent the restitution of land that was stolen during Colombia’s…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan's Untapped Water Potential
Jul 27, 2018
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Gauri Noolkar-Oak and Aditya Manubarwala, Modern Diplomacy
Squeezed between the erstwhile USSR and the United States’ strategic backyard Pakistan, Afghanistan has been used as tool employed by all of these powers to…
Syria/Iraq/Turkey: War for Water? Syria, Iraq and Turkey Will Next Fight for Rivers, Report Says
Jul 27, 2018
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Tom O'Connor, Newsweek
The next war in the Middle East could be fought over water as Iraq, Syria and Turkey scramble to assert claims to two vital rivers that…
Bangladesh: Bapa Protests against Illegal Land Grabbing in Dhaleshwari River
Jul 27, 2018
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Motiur Rahman, Dhaka Tribune
Bapa has claimed that the Northern Power Generation Company, owned by an Awami League MP has been illegally grabbing land on the river banks and…
Nigeria: Nigeria Grazing Violence Kills Many More than Boko Haram, Poses Serious Stability Threat: Think-Tank
Jul 26, 2018
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Alexis Akwagyiram, Reuters
Violence in Nigeria between semi-nomadic cattle herders and settled farmers has killed around six times more people than deaths related to the Boko Haram insurgency…
Myanmar: Armed Conflict Harming Efforts to Save Myanmar’s Tigers, Group Says
Jul 26, 2018
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Nyein Nyein, The Irrawaddy
Ending armed conflict is crucial to Myanmar’s efforts to save the tiger populations in its wildlife reserves, said a wildlife conservation NGO on Thursday, warning…
Mapping Climate Security: New Dashboard Tool Visualizes Complex Vulnerability in Asia
Jul 25, 2018
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Olivia Smith
In many parts of South and Southeast Asia, high population density and vulnerability to climate change combine with low levels of household resilience and poor…
Ukraine: Ukraine’s Donbas Bears the Brunt of Toxic Armed Conflict
Jul 25, 2018
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UN Environment
For years Donbas has been one of the country’s most polluted regions – as toxic waste from nearly two centuries of intensive coal mining, and…
Access to Water Continues to be Jeopardized for Millions of Children in War-Torn Yemen
Jul 24, 2018
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UNICEF
UNICEF deplores in the strongest terms yet another attack on vital and lifesaving water systems in Yemen. A large water facility in Sa’ada, northwest of the…
Iraq: Iraqi Oil Exports Increase Despite Protests
Jul 24, 2018
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Daniel J. Graeber, UPI
Iraqi oil exports for June, the last full month for which data are available, were slightly higher than the month before on average, the government…
Afghanistan: Guns and Roses: Farmers in War-Torn Afghanistan Enjoy Sweet Smell of Success
Jul 24, 2018
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The Asian Age
Standing in a field of roses in eastern Afghanistan, former poppy grower Mohammad Din Sapai quickly but carefully plucks the delicate petals that will be…
Natural Resources and Conflict: SDC Brief Calls for International Process on Environment-Climate Change-Fragility-Conflict Nexus
Jul 24, 2018
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Leila Mead, IISD
Destruction and overexploitation of natural resources and ecosystems can increase the risk of violent conflict, according to a brief titled, ‘Fragility and Conflict,’ published by…
Protecting the Amazon Means Protecting Local Communities
Jul 23, 2018
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Aditi Sen
A recent report released by the government of Colombia highlights a 23% surge in deforestation in the country from 2016 to 2017, most notably in the Amazon…
Meet the Women Protecting Vanuatu's Resources for Future Generations
Jul 23, 2018
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Julia Woods
Located in the South Pacific, the small, low-lying islands of Vanuatu are home to immense cultural and ecological diversity. However, these beautiful islands and the…
Colombia: Colombia’s Land Thieves Going Unpunished: Land Restitution Chief
Jul 23, 2018
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Stephen Gill, Colombia Reports
Colombia must punish those who teamed up with paramilitary death squads to steal land during the country’s armed conflict, according to the outgoing-director of the…
Iraq/Saudi Arabia/Kuwait: Saudi and Kuwait Move to Support Iraq amid Protests over Electricity Crisis
Jul 22, 2018
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Naser Al Wasmi, The National
Iraqi officials plan to travel to Riyadh to strike an energy deal with Saudi Arabia as protests over electricity cuts reach Baghdad. This came after Iran…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Faces Worst Drought in Decades, as UN Warns 1.4 Million People Need Help
Jul 22, 2018
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Ben Farmer and Akhtar Makoii
North and Western Afghanistan are this year facing their most severe drought in decades as the cumulative effect of several years of low rainfall has seen agriculture collapse. A…
Liberia: Liberia's Biggest Palm Oil Project Quits Eco-Certification Scheme
Jul 21, 2018
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Reuters
Liberia’s largest palm oil company, Golden Veroleum, has quit a global eco-certification scheme in response to accusations from a global watchdog that it failed to…
Brazil: Interview: 'They Should Be Put in Prison': Battling Brazil's Huge Alumina Plant
Jul 21, 2018
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Jonathan Watts, The Guardian
In Brazil, Maria do Socoro Silva is leading Amazonian forest people against alleged land-grabbing, corruption and pollution. The intimidation of Maria do Socorro Silva has come…
Colombia: 'This is a Last Hold-Out': Son of a Murdered Farmer in Colombia
Jul 21, 2018
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Jonathan Watts, The Guardian
Hernán Bedoya was shot 15 times on 5 December while he was riding his horse to the vet in Pedeguita y Mancilla, Chocó. It was broad…
Is Pakistan Heading Towards a Civil War?
Jul 20, 2018
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Zeeshan Munir
Political fervor in Pakistan is on the rise. Elections 2018 are around corner and country is abuzz with political sloganeering, promises, hopes, blame-games and public…
Momentum Builds in the Fight for Land Rights in Guatemala: Making Us All a Bit Braver
Jul 20, 2018
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Shona Hawkes
In 2011, 769 families in the Polochic Valley in Guatemala were evicted to make way for the Chabil Utzaj sugar mill. Without land to farm and…