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Palestine: Women, Peace and Security Expert (Consultant)
Feb 16, 2022
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UN Women
UN Women (UNW), grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women…
Middle East: Water-for-Energy Deal Could Help Prevent Climate Conflict in the Middle East
Feb 16, 2022
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Anastasia Kapetas, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
The climate crisis is both a multiplier of current security crises and a driver of new threats. This relationship between a worsening climate and conflict…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Kurds Denounce 'Unjust' Oil and Gas Ruling as Energy Feud Escalates
Feb 16, 2022
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Alex MacDonald, Middle East Eye
The long-running saga of the Iraqi-Kurdish energy feud escalated late on Tuesday, when Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region hit back at an order by the country's top…
London, The Hague, and Nairobi: Climate and Peace Advocacy Advisor
Feb 15, 2022
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International Alert
For over 30 years, International Alert has been working to build positive peace and reduce violence, working across conflict lines and with all parties to…
Russia: Russia Halts Grain Exports to Ex-Soviet Republics
Feb 15, 2022
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Agence France-Presse
Russia, a major supplier of grain, has put a stop on exports to four former Soviet countries to secure domestic supplies and avoid a spike…
Yemen: Yemen’s Forgotten Environmental Crisis Can Further Complicate Peacebuilding Efforts
Feb 15, 2022
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Hadil al-Mowafak, Yemen Policy Center
The peace and security of Yemen is increasingly threatened by waning environmental stability. Dwindling water resources, changing weather patterns, and worsening soil, water, and air…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraqi Federal Court Deems Kurdish Oil and Gas Law Unconstitutional
Feb 15, 2022
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Rowena Edwards and Moataz Mohamed, Reuters
Iraq's federal court on Tuesday deemed an oil and gas law regulating the oil industry in Iraqi Kurdistan unconstitutional and demanded that Kurdish authorities hand…
Afghanistan: China Wants to Invest in Afghanistan's Solar Power & Mining
Feb 15, 2022
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Wadsam
The Chinese ambassador in Kabul met with the islamic Emirate's Foreign Minister and announced that his country wants to invest in solar power and mining.…
Climate Change: Climate Migration Fuels Conflicts in Bay of Bengal Region
Feb 15, 2022
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Anuradha Nagaraj, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Military and civil conflicts could intensify along the Bay of Bengal coastline, fuelled by climate change-linked migration, land loss and displacement, researchers said on Tuesday.…
Bending Gender Norms: Women’s Engagement in Agriculture
Feb 11, 2022
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Manisha Shrestha
Researchers at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have studied and witnessed that women, particularly in South Asia, have strongly ingrained and culturally…
Myanmar: Kachin Tycoon Draws Controversy over Gold Mining at Myitsone
Feb 11, 2022
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Emily Fisbhein, Jaw Tu Hkwang, Nu Nu Lusan, and Jauman Naw, Frontier Myanmar
The confluence, known as Myitsone in Burmese and Mali N’Mai Zup in Kachin, captured global attention in 2011 when then-President U Thein Sein suspended a…
How Can Climate Finance Work Better for Fragile and Conflict-Affected Regions?
Feb 10, 2022
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Catherine Wong and Yue Cao
Climate change often hits the hardest and is felt most profoundly in fragile and conflict-affected settings, which suffer high vulnerability and low investments in coping…
DRC/Uganda: UN's Top Court Orders Uganda to Pay $325 Million to DR Congo
Feb 10, 2022
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UN
Uganda must pay the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) $325 million in reparations related to the brutal conflict between the two nations from 1998…
Uganda: LWF Urges Uganda to Protect Vulnerable Women
Feb 9, 2022
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The Lutheran World Federation
In a Shadow Report to the CEDAW committee, partners call on governments to support women in refugee communities.
Ireland: Covid-19 has Created a 'Pandemic Within a Pandemic' of Gender-Based Violence
Feb 9, 2022
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Maeve Lee
The Irish Consortium on Gender Based Violence (ICGBV) has demanded increased efforts to stop violence against women, warning that Covid-19 has created “a pandemic within…
Vietnam: Women Coffee Growers in Vietnam Boost Climate Mitigation Through Agroforestry
Feb 9, 2022
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Julie Mollins
Greater gender equity benefits reforestation efforts.
Iran: Iran’s Water Woes Worsen Despite Warmer Taliban Ties
Feb 9, 2022
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Shelly Kittleson, Al-Monitor
Iranian and Taliban officials have issued conflicting claims about how water from a dam in southwestern Afghanistan will be used, amid worsening shortages in Iran…
Brief Debrief from the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding
Feb 8, 2022
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
From February 1 to 4, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx™) and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) convened the Second International Conference…
Environmental Peacebuilding: Science Meets Constructive Resistance
Feb 8, 2022
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Sawssan Abou-Zahr
Four years prior to the October 17th 2019 Revolution, people in Lebanon took to the streets seeking sustainable solutions for the so-called garbage crisis. These…
Why Militaries Shouldn’t Be Exempt from EU Battery Laws
Feb 8, 2022
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
The EU Green Deal and 2050 carbon neutrality targets are set to drive forward a low-carbon economy reliant on battery-powered technology. Both the Green Deal…
South Korea: The South Korean Election’s Gender Conflict and the Future of Women Voters
Feb 8, 2022
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Darcie Draudt
In South Korea, gender equality and the feminism movement have become politicized and polarizing issues, especially among the younger generation, leading up to the March…
Colombia: In Colombia, Escobar’s Hippos Spawn Another Problem: Wildlife Trafficking
Feb 8, 2022
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Diana María Pachón, Mongabay
For many people in Doradal, John Aristides Saldarriaga’s hometown, the fishing story is just that: a tall tale. The prevailing rumor is that Saldarriaga had…
The Congo Unearthed: A Look at the Republic of the Congo’s Mining Sector
Feb 8, 2022
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Damon Biesold, Energy Capital & Power
The Republic of the Congo is endowed with abundant mineral deposits, yet its mining sector remains largely underdeveloped. Overdependence on oil and gas revenues has…
Colombia: Forest Rule to Outshine Colombia Auction Plans
Feb 8, 2022
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Paul Harris, Mining Journal
Details of the areas are expected to be made available when the pre-qualification process opens. The government offered five small copper areas for auction in…
Somalia: Humanitarian-Development-Peace Triple Nexus Research
Feb 7, 2022
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Oxfam Novib
Conflicts and shocks linked to climate change are more frequent and intense, leading to poverty and inequality, exacerbating these phenomena and people’s vulnerability. In this…
Switzerland: Internship, Climate Action, Division of Resilience and Solution
Feb 7, 2022
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is offering a full-time internship within the Office of the Special Advisor on Climate Action under the Division of Resilience…
Niger: Regional Climate Project Manager
Feb 7, 2022
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Enabel
Enabel is the Belgian Development Agency. It executes the Belgian governmental cooperation. The Agency also implements actions for other national and international organisations. Together with its Belgian and…
Uganda: Civil Peace Service (CPS) Advisor (m/f/d) for Civil Society Organisations Working on Transformation of Past and Present Conflicts Related to Land and Natural Resources
Feb 7, 2022
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Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
For more than 50 years, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), as a company of the German Federal Government, has been supporting the implementation…
CAR: National Agronomist Expert (Cassava Production)
Feb 7, 2022
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and…
Near East and North Africa Countries Focus on Nutrition, Climate, Resilience, Water and Gender
Feb 7, 2022
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African Business
The 36th FAO Regional Conference for the Near East (NERC36) started today with a focus on improving nutrition, building resilient rural communities, optimizing water management,…