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Switzerland: Private Sector and Technical Specialist - Central African Forest Initiative

Aug 23, 2021 | UNDP

UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the…


Myanmar: Freshwater Programme & Policy Manager

Aug 23, 2021 | World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction…


How Ethiopia’s Conflict Has Affected Farming in Tigray

Aug 22, 2021 | Jan Nyssen, Emnet Negash, and Sofie Annys

Since fighting broke out in November 2020 between the Tigrayan regional government and the Ethiopian army, the conflict has wreaked havoc on the lives of…


EnPAx Icon Environmental Peacebuilding Awards: Call for Nominations

Aug 22, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

To honor outstanding contributions to environmental peacebuilding, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association sponsors awards for leaders, practitioners, and researchers.

The Association is seeking nominations for awards to…


Iraq/Kurdistan: KRG Bans Gas Flaring: Minister

Aug 21, 2021 | Rudaw

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has ordered oil companies operating in the Kurdistan Region to cease the environmentally harmful practice of gas flaring. “Starting from…


EnPAx Icon Sherri Goodman

Senior Fellow
Wilson Center
Aug 21, 2021

Sherri Goodman is an executive, researcher, and lawyer bringing attention to the security challenges tied to environmental change and the ways to transform these risks…


Climate Change: How Climate Change Helped Strengthen the Taliban

Aug 20, 2021 | Cara Korte, CBS News

Rural Afghanistan has been rocked by climate change. The past three decades have brought floods and drought that have destroyed crops and left people hungry.…


After Climate Change Forced Her to Miss School, Meet the Activist Fighting Back

Aug 20, 2021 | Joe McCarthy

Aryaana Khan would rather not spend her days thinking about how humans are destroying the environment.

But no matter where she goes, the climate crisis has…


Amplify: Elevating Women’s Voices is Key to our Success in Tackling Climate Change

Aug 20, 2021 | Sierra Bien


Climate Change: An Unstable World – What the IPCC Report Means for the Security Community

Aug 19, 2021 | Lindsey Wilkinson, Homeland Security Today

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) first section of its Sixth Assessment Report, ‘Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science’ was recently released and while…


Achieving A Gender Just World: Thought Leaders Provide Actionable Ways To Break Through Equality's Biggest Barriers

Aug 19, 2021 | Marianne Schnall

In the first article for the Envision Equality campaign, we highlighted diverse inspirational visions of what a gender just world could be. In this next installment,…


Achieving A Gender Just World: Thought Leaders Provide Actionable Ways To Break Through Equality's Biggest Barriers

Aug 19, 2021 | Marianne Schnall

In the first article for the Envision Equality campaign, we highlighted diverse inspirational visions of what a gender just world could be. In this next installment,…


International Response to Haiti's Earthquake Must Avoid 2010 Mistakes

Aug 19, 2021 | Brian Concannon and Kathleen Bergin

As the death toll and displacement from Saturday’s earthquake in Haiti mounts, the United States must urgently mobilize to provide help. But we must, just…


Achieving A Gender Just World: Thought Leaders Provide Actionable Ways To Break Through Equality's Biggest Barriers

Aug 19, 2021 | Marianne Schnall

In the first article for the Envision Equality campaign, we highlighted diverse inspirational visions of what a gender just world could be. In this next installment,…


Achieving A Gender Just World: Thought Leaders Provide Actionable Ways To Break Through Equality's Biggest Barriers

Aug 19, 2021 | Marianne Schnall

In the first article for the Envision Equality campaign, we highlighted diverse inspirational visions of what a gender just world could be. In this next installment,…


Achieving A Gender Just World: Thought Leaders Provide Actionable Ways To Break Through Equality's Biggest Barriers

Aug 19, 2021 | Marianne Schnall

In the first article for the Envision Equality campaign, we highlighted diverse inspirational visions of what a gender just world could be. In this next installment,…


Achieving A Gender Just World: Thought Leaders Provide Actionable Ways To Break Through Equality's Biggest Barriers

Aug 19, 2021 | Marianne Schnall

In the first article for the Envision Equality campaign, we highlighted diverse inspirational visions of what a gender just world could be. In this next installment,…


Afghanistan: Taliban's Return Clouds Plans for Afghan Resource Projects

Aug 19, 2021 | Tom Daly, Reuters

China could look to steal a march on wary western nations in developing resource projects in a Taliban-led Afghanistan, state media and industry sources say,…


Afghanistan: Afghan Women Are Already Fading From Public View as Fear of the Taliban and Uncertainty Prevail

Aug 19, 2021 | Margherita Stancati and Jessica Donati

Dr. Zuhal used to drive herself to work.

This week, she started taking a taxi to avoid reprisals from the Taliban, who once banned women from…


Achieving A Gender Just World: Thought Leaders Provide Actionable Ways To Break Through Equality's Biggest Barriers

Aug 19, 2021 | Marianne Schnall

In the first article for the Envision Equality campaign, we highlighted diverse inspirational visions of what a gender just world could be. In this next installment,…


How Can Empowering Women & Girls Help End World Hunger?

Aug 18, 2021 | Leah Rodriguez

World hunger reached a five-year high in 2020 and a third of the world population — 2.3 billion people — did not have access to adequate nutrition. 

Conflict,…


Malala: I Survived the Taliban. I Fear for My Afghan Sisters.

Aug 17, 2021 | Malala Yousafzai

In the last two decades, millions of Afghan women and girls received an education. Now the future they were promised is dangerously close to slipping…


Register Now for the Course "Climate Change, Peace and Security: Understanding Climate-Related Security Risks Through an Integrated Lens"

Aug 17, 2021 | UN CC: e-Learn

Climate change is considered by many as among the greatest risks for peace and security in the 21st century. As the planet’s temperature rises, extended droughts,…


Myanmar: Myanmar Junta’s Coup Gives Greenlight to Timber Traffickers

Aug 17, 2021 | Irrawaddy

Timber logging usually takes a break in the monsoon. Even smugglers halt their activities from mid-May to early October to avoid the rainy season. However,…


Nigeria: New Rice Scheme to Engage 1000 Women, Youths

Aug 17, 2021 | Gilbert Ekugbe

Over 1000 women and youths are expected to benefit from a new rice initiative (wet season) aimed at boosting rice production in the country post…


Liberia: NaFAA Distributes Free Fishing Nets to Fishermen in Grand Bassa

Aug 16, 2021 | Lennart Dodoo, FrontPage Africa

The National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA) has fulfilled its pledge to Fishermen as over 300 received several thread nets in exchange for their rubber…


Somalia: MERL Advisor for Gender and Social Inclusion

Aug 16, 2021 | Gender Resources Inc

Gender Resources Inc (GRI) is a women-owned small business based in San Francisco, California that leads international programs to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment…


Afghanistan: The Taliban Now Controls One of the World’s Biggest Lithium Deposits

Aug 16, 2021 | Tim McDonnell, Quartz

When Taliban fighters entered Kabul on Aug. 15, they didn’t just seize control of the Afghan government. They also gained the ability to control access…


Liberia: Golden Veroleum Reacts to Rights Groups' Reports Condemning It of Illtreating Liberians

Aug 16, 2021 | FrontPage Africa

Golden Veroleum (Liberia) Inc. (GVL) acknowledges the report released by SDI and Milieudefensie which indicated that "GVL structurally fails to comply with obligations and commitments…


Water Wars: How Water Shortages Are Brewing Wars

Aug 16, 2021 | Sandy Milne, BBC

Unprecedented levels of dam building and water extraction by nations on great rivers are leaving countries further downstream increasingly thirsty, increasing the risk of conflicts.