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Afghanistan: 'Critical' Lack of Clean Water Stalks Flood-Hit Afghanistan
Jun 5, 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.…
Enforce Laws on Women Empowerment and Gender Equality in Academia --- African Leaders Urged
May 31, 2024
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Joy Online
Prof. Fatoumata Keita from University for Arts and Human Sciences of Bamako, has called on African leaders to enforce laws regarding women’s empowerment and gender…
Declaration of 3rd International Conference on Mitigating Environmental Impact of Landmines Adopted
May 31, 2024
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AZERTAC
The Declaration of the 3rd international conference on “Mitigating Environmental Impact of Landmines: Resource Mobilization for Safe and Green Future”, held in Zangilan and Baku,…
Syria: ISIS Attacks Oil Field in East Syria: Watchdog
May 31, 2024
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Rudaw
Islamic State (ISIS) sleeper cells on Friday attacked an oil field in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, setting one of the wells on fire, a…
Climate Change: Updated Map of Climate Security Practices
May 30, 2024
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Planetary Security Initiative
PSI is pleased to launch a new, updated map of climate security practices around the world. Over the past two decades, climate security research has…
Food Security: Rewind and Reconnoiter: Elevating Hunger as a National Security Priority with Kelly McFarland
May 30, 2024
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Kelly McFarland and Freddie Mallinson, War on the Rocks
In 2021, Kelly McFarland co-authored “To Tackle Instability and Conflict, It’s Time to Elevate Hunger as a National Security Priority,” in which he argued that,…
Sudan/South Sudan/Abyei: Abyei Prepares for Farming Season Despite Challenges
May 30, 2024
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Radio Tamazuj
The Ministry of Agriculture in the Abyei Administrative Area announced on Wednesday that the community is prepared to embark on agriculture despite facing climate change…
Ukraine/Russia: Ukrainian ‘Ecocide App’ Calculates Russia’s Bill for Environmental Damage
May 30, 2024
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Donagh Cagney, Euractiv
Ukraine’s environment has been the “silent victim” of the Russian invasion, according to the country’s environment minister Ruslan Strilets, but thanks to app-wielding Ukrainian citizens,…