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Chile: Chile Indigenous: Time to Make Our Voices Heard

May 14, 2021 | BBC

Replacing it had been one of the demands made in nationwide protests which swept through the country in 2019. This weekend, Chileans are being asked to…


China/Philippines/South China Sea: Philippines Ignores China Fishing Ban in Disputed Waters

May 14, 2021 | Ralph Jennings, Voice of America

The Philippine government took another step this month in opposing China by telling its vast fishing fleet to ignore Beijing’s annual fishing ban in the…


Netherlands: Senior Advisor – Gender

May 14, 2021 | KIT Royal Tropical Institute

The KIT Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam is a centre of expertise for sustainable economic development, gender, health care and intercultural communication. They provide advisory…


Kurdistan: Kurdistan Amends Repayment Terms to IOCs, Citing Higher Oil Prices, Pandemic Stress

May 13, 2021 | Herman Wang, S&P Global Platts

The Kurdistan Regional Government plans to slash payments owed for previous shortfalls to international oil producers operating in the semi-autonomous region of Iraq, citing the…


Finland: Professor or Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Geographies of the Anthropocene

May 12, 2021 | University of Oulu

We invite applications from candidates who have strong research skills in studies on the relationships between society and environment, and who are interested in pursuing…


DRC: DR Congo to Suffer $4bn Shortfall from Gertler Contracts: Activists

May 12, 2021 | Agence France-Presse

The Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to suffer a shortfall of nearly four billion dollars from mining and oil contracts that it signed…


Myanmar: Myanmar’s Anti-Coup Protesters Defy Rigid Gender Roles – and Subvert Stereotypes about Women to Their Advantage

May 12, 2021 | Ei Hlaing, The Conversation

One of the first signs of the military coup that overthrew Myanmar’s democratically elected civilian government was a Facebook Live video of regional lawmaker Pa Pa Han being arrested,…


Myanmar: Gender-Based Violence in Myanmar and the Military Coup

May 12, 2021 | Matthew Brown, Borgen Magazine

Myanmar has long struggled as a multicultural society governed primarily through the ethnic Burmese-led military known as the Tatmadaw. The conflict exists since gaining independence…


Indonesia: Feature-Eco-friendly Eid - the Indonesian Women on a Mission to Plant Trees

May 12, 2021 | Harry Jacques, Reuters

On a grass verge by a road dissecting miles of rice fields in Central Java province, a group of volunteers with ‘Aisyiyah, Indonesia’s oldest Islamic…


Lebanon/Syria: Syrian Landmines Wash into Lebanon Due to Floods

May 12, 2021 | Najia Houssari, Arab News

As authorities continue to find and extract landmines left behind from the Lebanese Civil War, a new wave of explosives has entered the country’s border…


Vietnam: Agent Orange Case: After Defeat, Woman, 79, Vows to Keep Up Fight

May 12, 2021 | Alexander Durie, Al Jazeera

The landmark trial between a 79-year-old Vietnamese-French woman and 14 chemical multinationals was always going to be a David and Goliath legal battle. Trần Tố Nga…


Climate and Conflict as a Vicious Cycle: The Case of Afghanistan

May 11, 2021 | Hans-Joachim Giessmann and Charlotte Hamm

Climate change is neither a national phenomenon nor a challenge limited to individual states. Consequences of climate change can be felt more quickly or more…


Feeding Peace

May 11, 2021 | Vongai Murugani

The impact of conflict on food security is well documented. But does food security and feeding the hungry really contribute to peace, or is it…


This UK Campaign is Working to Close the Politics Gender Gap

May 11, 2021 | Kate Whiting

On the green benches inside London’s historic River Thames-side landmark, the Houses of Parliament, sit twice as many men as women. “At the rate we’re…


Afghanistan: Women, Girls, and Afghanistan’s Missing Justice

May 10, 2021 | The New Humanitarian

Rights groups say girls were the clear target of the 8 May violence, when a series of explosions erupted as many students were leaving class.…


Liberia: Pres. Weah to Constitute Committee to Probe Nimba Land Dispute

May 10, 2021 | Global News Network

President George Manneh Weah has disclosed plan to set up a committee that will be charged with the responsibility to thoroughly investigate the land dispute…


United States: Why Indigenous Women are Risking Arrest to Fight Enbridge’s Line 3 Pipeline through Minnesota

May 10, 2021 | Hilary Beaumont, Environment Health News

After a six-year-long permitting process, Enbridge contractors in Minnesota are building Line 3, the largest project in the company's history. If completed, it will carry…


What Is behind the Escalation on the Kyrgyz-Tajik Border?

May 10, 2021 | Andrea Schmitz and Dumitru Minzarari

At the end of April, a conflict over water escalated into the most serious border clashes between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan since their independence from the…


Myanmar: Trafficking of Banned Myanmar Teak Lands German Company with $4m Fine

May 10, 2021 | Nicolás Bustamante Hernández, Mongabay

WOB Timber, a logging company based in Hamburg, Germany, has been ordered by a court to pay a $4 million fine for illegally trading Myanmar…


Afghanistan: 75pc of Mining Sites Controlled by Militants and Strongmen

May 10, 2021 | Ahmad Sohaib Hasrat, Pajhwok Afghan News

A table of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) shows that of 748 mining areas in different parts of Afghanistan, about 283 are controlled…


Myanmar: China Alarmed after Strategic Oil Pipeline Station in Myanmar Is Attacked

May 8, 2021 | Atul Aneja, Daiji World

Alarm bells are ringing loud and clear in China after Myanmar protesters have attacked a monitoring station of a strategic pipeline that ferries oil to…


Translating Urgency into Action on Water, Climate, and Security

May 7, 2021 | Ratia Tekenet

“We need to devote our full attention to the relationship between water, climate, and security, increase understanding of the issue, and take urgent action,” said…


The Environmental Cost of the War on Tigray

May 7, 2021 | Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel

It has been more than  six months since the Ethiopian regime of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the 2019 Nobel Peace Laureate, declared a full-scale war…


Improving Resource Governance and Building Sustainable Peace

May 7, 2021 | Stacy D. VanDeveer

In a recently published piece in World Development, Florian Krampe, Farah Hegazi and Stacy D VanDeveer explore the potentially dramatic benefits of improved environmental and…


Four Months into Brexit, the UK and France Have Resorted to Gunboat Diplomacy over Fish

May 6, 2021 | Luke McGee, CNN

Take a glance at the British media and you'd be forgiven for thinking that the UK was preparing for war with France. On Wednesday night,…


Philippines: Tausug Women in Conflict Areas Find Solution to Food Security

May 5, 2021 | Liza Abubakar-Jocson, Manila Bulletin

A simple gardening program in Sulu is bringing soldiers and residents together to address the root of poverty and conflict in island communities. Tausug women…


Afghanistan: At Least 19 Killed after Flash Floods in Western Afghanistan

May 5, 2021 | Anadolu Agency

At least 19 people were killed in flash floods caused by heavy downpour in Afghanistan's western Herat province, the country's officials said Tuesday. Heavy rains…


Climate Justice and Gender Justice: An Essential Pairing to Get Resilience Right

May 5, 2021 | Molly Middlehurst and Tamar Eisen

Young women activists from around the world have been leaders in the movement to combat climate change — organizing protests, rallies, strikes, sit-ins and lawsuits…


Peace Is Possible in Afghanistan

May 5, 2021 | Mirwais Wakil and Anthony Pahnke

Few have hope for Afghanistan. Those in favour of the United States government’s decision to withdraw forces from Afghanistan see no pathway to victory by…


EnPAx Icon Kelly Bridges

JD Candidate
University of Chicago Law School
United States
May 4, 2021

Kelly Bridges is the Senior Associate at Global Water 2020, where she supports water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) advocacy work throughout the developing world. She…