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DRC: Congo Questions Apple on Concerns About Use of Conflict Minerals
Apr 25, 2024
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Paul Richardson, Bloomberg
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government notified Apple Inc. of concerns that the company’s supply chain may be tainted by conflict minerals sourced from the…
Remote: Humanitarian Support Personnel - Food and Economic Security
Apr 25, 2024
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Oxfam
Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon…
South Sudan: National Consultant for Climate Landscape Analysis for Children (CLAC), Juba, South Sudan (For South Sudan Nationals Only)
Apr 25, 2024
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United Nations Children's Fund
For more than 70 years, UNICEF has been working in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. As the world's largest…
Remote: Consultancy: Gender, Climate Change, and Conflict (2016)
Apr 25, 2024
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Oxfam
Oxfam is looking to commission a briefing paper that will investigate existing frameworks, evidence, influencing and programmatic knowledge on the climate change-conflict-gender The paper will…
Ukraine: Project and Programme Management, Public Health and Health Service
Apr 25, 2024
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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, with a network of 192-member National Societies. The…
Ukraine: Partnerships Officer SC-8 | Kyiv, Ukraine
Apr 25, 2024
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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…
Austria: Assistant Project Officer (P1) (Women, Water Management and Conflict Prevention)
Apr 25, 2024
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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The OSCE has a comprehensive approach to security that encompasses politico-military, economic and environmental, and human aspects. It therefore addresses a wide range of security-related…
Liberia: Illegal Timber Trafficking Web Uncovered at CARI
Apr 24, 2024
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Rebazar D. Forte, The DayLight
This is not your regular sawmill. It is the Central Agriculture Research Institute (CARI) in Suakoko, Bong County, and the piles of timber are remnants…
Afghanistan: Earth Day and the Plight of Afghanistan’s Landholders: Climate Change Threatens Country
Apr 24, 2024
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Amin Kawa, Hasht-E Subh
Afghanistan is grappling not only with political and economic crises but also with the challenges of climate change. Declining groundwater levels, devastating floods, rising temperatures,…
EU Adopts Mandatory Rules on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence That Will Apply to Many US Companies
Apr 24, 2024
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Cooley
On 24 April 2024, the European Parliament voted to adopt the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), meaning it will now become law and necessitate…
Persistent Gender Inequalities Hinder Climate Resilience, Say Women
Apr 23, 2024
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Gilbert Koech
Gender equality advocates are furious that decisions on climate change do not involve women despite their vulnerability.
This as impacts of climate change continue to ravage…
Afghanistan: 1.25m Acres of Land Wrested back from Grabbers
Apr 23, 2024
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Hijratullah Kakar, Pajhwok Afghan News
Since its creation 18 months ago, the Land Grab Prevention and Restitution Commission (LGPRC) has wrested back 1.25 million acres of state land from land…
Colombia: Colombian Court Recognizes Environmental Refugees
Apr 23, 2024
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Agence France-Presse
A Colombian court has ruled that environmental calamities, sudden or gradual, can legally be considered a cause of forced displacement, placing obligations on the state…
Afghanistan/Iran: Iran Says Water Is an Important Factor in Expansion of Ties with Afghanistan
Apr 22, 2024
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Ariana News
Iran’s special representative for Afghanistan, Hasan Kazemi Qomi, said on Sunday that water is an important factor in the expansion of bilateral relations, expressing hope…
Liberia: Cocoa Farming in Liberia Risks Undermining EU Deforestation Law
Apr 22, 2024
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Joe Bavier, Reuters
Farmers are clearing forests in Liberia to create cocoa plantations and are trafficking the beans into neighbouring Ivory Coast, undermining European efforts to curb deforestation,…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan on Brink of Climate Catastrophe, UN Warns
Apr 22, 2024
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Mujeeb Rahman Awrang Stanikzai, Amu TV
On World Earth Day, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) warned that Afghanistan is on the brink of a climate catastrophe and called for immediate…
Wildlife: The Pelicans That Brought Peace to a Troubled Corner of Europe
Apr 22, 2024
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Fred Pearce, Anthropocene
A dedicated group of bird-lovers in a war-torn region of the Balkans in Europe is showing us [that water can also be a way out…
New Insensitive Munitions May Pose Lingering Toxic Threat
Apr 22, 2024
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Hanna Homestead
Within the US, the production of explosive weapons has resulted in massive amounts of pollution and ecological destruction. There are currently more than 40,000 military…
United States/Remote: Climate, Peace and Security Intern
Apr 22, 2024
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UN Department of Peace Operations
This position is located in the Partnerships/Climate Peace and Security Team, in the Policy and Best Practices Service (PBPS), Division of Policy, Evaluation and Training…
Sudan/South Sudan: Abyei Protestors Call for Withdrawal of Armed Groups, Referendum Acceptance
Apr 20, 2024
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Sudan Tribune
Protesters in the oil-producing region of Abyei and in New York have called for withdrawal of armed groups and for President Salva Kiir to accept…
Things I (Don’t) Worry about: Water Wars [Video]
Apr 19, 2024
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Peter Zeihan
There are some practical limitations to water wars. Water isn’t easy to move and redirecting rivers or directional flows is time consuming, expensive, and hard…
Nigeria: FG Partners Military to Protect Forests, Wildlife
Apr 18, 2024
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Lara Adejoro, Punch Nigeria
The Federal Ministry of Environment has partnered with the military in the protection and preservation of forests and wildlife in the country. The 2023 wildlife…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan's Isolated Communities Grapple with Fallout from Devastating Floods
Apr 18, 2024
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Modaser Islami, National
Flash floods have killed at least 120 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and damaged houses, infrastructure and farmland since Friday, according to authorities. While losses…
Colombia: Reclaimed Roots: Restoring Indigenous Lands and Cultures in Colombia
Apr 18, 2024
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Latin American Post
In a landmark move, Colombia’s Land Restitution Unit (URT) has successfully returned more than 16,000 hectares of land to the semi-nomadic indigenous communities of Sikuani…
Climate Change, Security, and Intersectionality at the 2024 UN Ocean Decade Conference
Apr 18, 2024
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Marisa O. Ensor
The UN Ocean Decade Conference was held in the coastal city of Barcelona, Spain, from April 10 to 12, under the theme: “Delivering the Science…
Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Niger, or Togo: Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Specialist
Apr 18, 2024
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DAI Global
Project BackgroundDAI Global is implementing a five-year, USAID program in West Africa. The program supports the efforts of West Africans to address the risks of…
Climate Change: Building a New, Secure Climate Future
Apr 17, 2024
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UNDP
Climate change does not directly lead to conflict or instability, but it can interact negatively with the factors that impact the lives of those most…
Sierra Leone: No Longer a Minefield: Rehabilitating Lands Scarred by Diamond Mining to Offer New Livelihoods in Sierra Leone
Apr 17, 2024
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
In the district of Kono, in eastern Sierra Leone, the yellow soils lie barren and exposed, gouged out by the relentless quest for diamonds. In…
Burkina Faso: Water Security in Africa is Gender Dependent
Apr 16, 2024
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Julie Truelove, Dorice Agol, Katharine Vincent, Djibril Barry, Kate Gannon, and Will Ingram
Climate Diplomacy
A person’s water security is affected by their gender, as is their likelihood to hold decision making positions about this vital resource. To increase water…
Can Restoration Be a Force for Peace?
Apr 16, 2024
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Eden Flaherty
Competing interests over land and natural resources are a major driver of conflict around the world. As the climate crisis bites, land becomes more degraded…