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Myanmar: Program Coordinator

Jun 1, 2016 | International Rescue Committee

The Program Coordinator will be based in Sittwe and have overall responsibility for the coordination of the partners and project implementation. The Program Coordinator will…

Cambodia: Cambodia Coordinator

Jun 1, 2016 | EarthRights International

The Cambodia Coordinator is responsible for overseeing and implementing ERI’s campaign and advocacy activities in Cambodia, and ensuring that these are linked and integrated with…

Sierra Leone: Monitoring and Evaluation Expert

Jun 1, 2016 | UNDP

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) recently approved the Project Identification Form (PIF) that was presented by UNDP on behalf of the Environment Protection Agency on…

South Sudan: Chief of Party

Jun 1, 2016 | Pact

The COP shall have overall responsibility for managing and reporting on activities for the anticipated Livelihoods, Vulnerability and Resilience Program (LVRP); making key decisions and…

South Sudan: WASH and Nutrition Expert

Jun 1, 2016 | Pact

Reporting to the Chief of Party, the WASH and Nutrition Expert will be responsible for technical leadership of the water, sanitation and hygiene and nutrition…

Somalia: Environment Expert

Jun 1, 2016 | CTG Global

CTG support and manage humanitarian projects in fragile and conflict-affected countries around the world. With past performance in 15 countries – from the Middle East,…

Conflict Minerals: More U.S. Companies Expected to Show Improved Conflict Minerals Disclosure Reports Based on Increased Use of Source Intelligence Platform

Jun 1, 2016 | Source Intelligence

More U.S. companies should show greater supply chain diligence in their latest conflict mineral disclosure reports with the SEC, based on an upswing in the…

Myanmar: Yangon Region Should Turn to Dams for Electricity: Chief Minister

Jun 1, 2016 | Eleven Myanmar

Dams can provide an affordable means for electricity production and water storage, said Yangon Region Chief Minister Phyo Min Thein at an event to inform…

Colombia: Colombia City Combines Gardening and Hip Hop to Revive Community

Jun 1, 2016 | Dylan Lebecki, Global Voices

“Seeds of the Future” demonstrates how organized projects are capable of creating and sustaining alternative communities where victimization and social invisibility have dominated in the past.

The Folly of Lobbying to Carve Up Iraq

May 31, 2016 | Luay al-Khatteeb

"It was the Kurds," wrote Thomas Friedman in 2014, "who used the window of freedom we opened for them to overcome internal divisions, start to…

Kurdistan’s Independence Referendum From An Economic Point Of View

May 31, 2016 | Tara Shwan

This is not a political opinion, but an economic point of view. Some people in the Kurdistan Region oppose the proposed referendum for independence just…

Post-Conflict in Colombia. Post-War on Drugs

May 31, 2016 | Juan Carlos Garzón-Vergara, openDemocracy

The Havana agreements offer an opportunity to put an end to the war on drugs through an approach from a territorial development perspective to what…

Afghanistan: In Afghanistan, the Taliban isn’t the Only Group Battling for Land

May 31, 2016 | Antonio Olivo, Washington Post

Amid the city’s swirling winds, construction crews work steadily to create a new downtown strip that, someday, will include high-rise office towers and thousands of…

Afghanistan: Adrift in Their Own Land, Afghanistan's Displaced See Their Population Swell

May 31, 2016 | Ali M. Latifi, Los Angeles Times

A newly released Amnesty International report has found a “staggering” increase in the number of Afghans driven from their homes by the deepening unrest, political…

Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi Urged to Halt Norwegian Backed Dam in Shan State

May 31, 2016 | BNI, Mizzima

The three groups behind the statement, the Shan Human Rights Foundation, the Shan Sapawa Environmental Organisation and the Shan State Farmers’ Network, say they are…

DRC: How New Doc 'Merci Congo' Sheds Light on Deadly Conflict

May 31, 2016 | Alex Suskind, Rolling Stone

Chronicle of African nation's ongoing civil war shows how corporate entities and everyday people are helping the healing to begin.

Global Witness Report on Liberia - Exposure of Ellen’s Corruption Legacy or Foreign Investors Predatory?

May 30, 2016 | FrontPageAfrica

Liberia, especially its densely populated and seemingly clean capital Monrovia, has been gripped with mixed reactions and political in-fights since the exposure of a corruption…

Myanmar: Cyclone Roanu Fails to Fill Inle Lake

May 30, 2016 | Eleven Myanmar

Although rain fell around Inle Lake in southern Shan State in the last week of May due to the effects from Cyclone Roanu, the lake…

Sierra Leone: FAO convenes the Second VGGT Learning Programme on Land Tenure

May 30, 2016 | Awoko

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has concluded four days Learning Programme on Governing Land for Women and Men, to Support…

Myanmar: KNU Wants Government Recognition of Ethnic Communities and Armed Groups’ Land Ownership Policies

May 30, 2016 | Burma News International

Karen National Union leaders has called for respective state and regional governments to recognized land rights and policies that are already in place for decades…

Myanmar: Fallen Timber, Uneasy Officials

May 30, 2016 | Mratt Kyaw Thu, Frontier

As conservationists welcome reports that the government is considering a one-year national logging ban, sections of the timber industry have been preparing for such a…

Why Water Scarcity is a Bigger Threat to Pakistan's Security than Militancy

May 30, 2016 | Shamil Shams, DW

Pakistan is facing an acute water shortage and may run dry by 2025, according to a latest study. Experts say the water scarcity is also…

Afghanistan: The Opium Farmers with the Police on Their Side

May 29, 2016 | Justin Rowlatt, BBC News

This year, Afghanistan is expected to produce more opium than the world consumes. Although billions of dollars have been spent trying to eradicate the crop,…

Fix Mideast Water Crisis to Advance Peace Process

May 28, 2016 | Munqeth Mehyar, Nader Khateeb, and Gidon Bromberg

Despite continuing disputes over settlements, Jerusalem, borders, and refugees, there is at least one problem on which Arabs and Israelis can still make progress —…

UNEA-2 Passes Most Significant Resolution on Conflict and the Environment since 1992

May 28, 2016 | Doug Weir

After five months of negotiations, a resolution from Ukraine on the protection of the environment in areas affected by armed conflict has been approved by…

Beijing is Angering its Only Friend in the Disputed South China Sea

May 28, 2016 | Ralph Jennings

China has upset Asian neighbors from Japan to Vietnam by flexing harder than the rest on its claims to vast swathes of disputed oceans. But Asia’s…

Why Do Land Grabs Happen? Because They Can

May 28, 2016 | Michael Kugelman

In January, over the objections of indigenous groups that live there, the government of Ecuador sold oil exploration rights to 500,000 acres of the Amazon to a…

DRC: The Paradox of Congo: How the World’s Wealthiest Country Became Home to the World’s Poorest People

May 28, 2016 | Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the vast majority of people live in extreme poverty, earning only around $400 a year. The country is…

Myanmar: Fearing Extreme Weather, Farmers Scale Back Rice Cultivation

May 28, 2016 | Phyo Thiha Cho, Myanmar Now

The Irrawaddy Delta is home to millions of subsistence farmers whose income and food security relies on their annual harvest, and to a lesser extent…

DRC: Making Congo’s Mines Conflict Free [Video]

May 28, 2016 | BBC News

Since 2012, Outlook Inspirations nominee Bandi Mbubi has been campaigning for an end to the use of conflict minerals. The eastern part of the Democratic…