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DRC: Deputy Chief of Party

Mar 7, 2021 | Jane Goodall Institute

The Jane Goodall Institute is currently recruiting for a Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) for an anticipated integrated multi-sectoral governance, conservation and development public private…

Preventing Human-Wildlife Conflict Is Critical for People and the Planet

Mar 7, 2021 | Kristina Rodina

Each year on 3 March, World Wildlife Day presents us with an opportunity. Not only do we celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wildlife,…

Climate Security and Peacebuilding in a Time of Converging Crises

Mar 7, 2021 | Alec Crawford and Julia Donaldson

Climate change has long been considered a contributing factor to conflict and instability. Risks are particularly acute and amplified in states currently suffering from weak…

Who Pays the Price for Climate Crisis

Mar 6, 2021 | Melanne Verveer and Jessica Smith

President Joe Biden wasted no time after assuming office in taking unprecedented steps to advance women's equality within his own administration. With Kamala Harris as…

Myanmar: Women's Clothes Help Protesters Skirt Myanmar's Junta

Mar 5, 2021 | AFP, Deccan Herald

Sarong-like cloths strung out on lines may seem innocuous, but long-held superstitions around women's clothes appear to have stopped security forces in their tracks as they move to quell an…

Climate Change Isn’t Gender Neutral. Climate Action Shouldn’t be Either

Mar 5, 2021 | Lisa Baumgartner

In Lebanon, despite near equal access to education, only 23.5 percent of women are part of the labour force, compared to 70.9 percent of men.…

10 Young Climate Activists Changing the World, in Honor of International Women's Day

Mar 5, 2021 | Sophie Hirsh

Monday, March 8, 2021 marks the annual International Women’s Day, a global holiday that celebrates women’s achievements, fights for gender equality, and fundraises for women’s organizations.…

Conflict Minerals: More Than $4bn a Year in High-Risk Gold Flows from DRC, Uganda, Rwanda, CAR and Others

Mar 5, 2021 | David Whitehouse, Africa Report

The US and the EU must work with African governments to harmonize gold export taxes to reduce smuggling and promote conflict-free gold, says the investigative…

Liberia: More Than 1.3 Million Hectares Now under Community Ownership & Control

Mar 5, 2021 | Gerald C. Koinyeneh, FrontPage Africa

Local communities across Liberia seem to be taking advantage of the new Land Rights Law to reclaim their ancestral land. With more than 1.3 million…

Afghanistan: Govt's Agreement with Australian Company Sparks Controversy

Mar 4, 2021 | Mir Haidar Shah Omid, TOLOnews

A document seen by TOLOnews shows that the Afghan government has awarded a five-year "framework agreement" for the development of mining in Afghanistan to an…

Zambia: The Voice of Leadership: Women in Wildlife in Zambia

Mar 4, 2021 | Patricia Malasha

In Zambia, women and men are making the choice to challenge cultural and social barriers to women’s participation in natural resource management

When it comes to…

The US Needs Partners to Tackle the Security Risks of Climate Change

Mar 4, 2021 | Joshua Busby, Morgan Bazilian, and Florian Krampe

We live in an age of “actorless threats” – where challenges to peace and security come not only from agents intentionally trying to do us…

UNDP Calls for Temporary Basic Income to Help World’s Poorest Women Cope with Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic

Mar 4, 2021 | UNDP

A temporary basic income (TBI) given specifically to hundreds of millions of women in the world’s developing countries could prevent rising poverty and widening gender…

Afghanistan/Iran: Dam Building in Afghanistan Threatens Hamoun Wetlands in Iran

Mar 3, 2021 | Tehran Times

The dried-up wetlands became a source of sand and dust storm, and the DOE has called on the government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and…

Afghanistan: Decrease Rainfalls, Drought Worrying Afghans

Mar 3, 2021 | Afghanistan Times

The severe droughts caused by frequent lack of rainfalls and snowfalls are worrying people in Afghanistan especially in the rural areas where people are mostly…

Liberia: Review Finds Palm Oil Firm Golden Veroleum Cleared Carbon-Rich Liberian Forests

Mar 3, 2021 | Ashoka Mukpo, Mongabay

In another blow to the Liberia-based palm oil company Golden Veroleum, an investigation by an independent grievance panel has found that it bulldozed rainforests and…

Colombia: Colombia’s National Parks at a Crossroads as New Director Installed

Mar 3, 2021 | Aurora Solá, Mongabay

It happened the way it so often does in Colombia: the government announced a new official appointment and outrage ensued. As the year 2020 drew…

Women Fighting Wildlife Crime

Mar 3, 2021 | UNDP

Through positions they occupy in all walks of life – as influencers in their communities, frontline defenders and wildlife managers, government decision-makers, legislators, scientists, and…

Colombia: Colombia to Focus on Illegal Mining, Formalization of Small Miners in 2021

Mar 2, 2021 | BNamericas

Colombia is currently making efforts to diversify its mining sector while boosting the country’s economy, and this year authorities will focus on two specific issues…

Junior Scholars Review Environmental Peacebuilding Literature

Mar 2, 2021 | Rohini Thakkar and Gianluca Corinaldesi, Duke University Center for International & Global Studies

Scholars and Duke alumnae McKenzie Frances Johnson and Luz Angela Rodríguez spoke on February 18, 2021 at the DUCIGS event: “Junior Scholars in Conversation: Comparative…

Syria: Environmental Ruin Could Make Postwar Syria Unlivable [Audio]

Mar 2, 2021 | Kira Walker, World Politics Review

After nearly a decade of conflict, the extensive damage inflicted on Syria’s environment is emerging as another devastating, if less visible, tragedy of its civil…

Sudan: Sudan Imposes New Controls over Gold Trade

Mar 1, 2021 | Middle East Monitor

Sudanese yesterday announced the adoption of a new plan to reform its economy based on imposing controls over smuggling gold, the New Khaleej reported. The…

4 Assumptions About Gender that Distort How we Think About Climate Change (and 3 Ways to Do Better)

Mar 1, 2021 | Jacqueline Lau, Pip Cohen, and Sarah Lawless

Gender influences how people experience and respond to climate change. This is particularly evident in developing nations where women and men adapt to climatic shocks differently.…

4 Assumptions About Gender that Distort How we Think About Climate Change (and 3 Ways to Do Better)

Mar 1, 2021 | Jacqueline Lau, Pip Cohen, and Sarah Lawless

Gender influences how people experience and respond to climate change. This is particularly evident in developing nations where women and men adapt to climatic shocks differently.…

International Women’s Day, 2021 Gender Equality is Our Captain for Sailing to a Green & Just Recovery

Mar 1, 2021 | Jennifer Morgan

The climate crisis doesn’t stop for anyone or anything, not even the pandemic that has forced billions of us to radically overhaul our lives. And…

Liberia: Government, Development Partners Petitioned to Support Customary Land Formalization Process

Mar 1, 2021 | Gerald C. Koinyeneh, FrontPage Africa

Bangladesh: Climate Change in Bangladesh to ‘Impact Int’l Security’: Muniruzzaman

Feb 28, 2021 | United News of Bangladesh

President of Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security (BIPSS) Maj Gen (retd) ANM Muniruzzaman on Sunday talked about the risks Bangladesh faces as a frontline…

Iraq: In Oil-Rich Iraq, a Few Women Buck Norms, Take Rig Site Jobs

Feb 28, 2021 | Samya Kullab, Associated Press

Zainab Amjad and Ayat Rawthan, both 24, are among just a handful who have eschewed the dreary office jobs typically handed to female petroleum engineers…

Climate Change, Conflict: What Is Fuelling the Lake Chad Crisis

Feb 28, 2021 | Abhijit Mohanty, Kieran Robson, Samuel Ngueping, and Swayam Sampurna Nanda

One of Africa’s largest freshwater bodies, the Lake Chad, has shrunk by 90 per cent. Over 10 million people across the region are in need…

The Impact of Climate Change on Peace and Security in Somalia: Implications for AMISOM

Feb 28, 2021 | Kheira Tarif and Anab Ovidie Grand

The February 2021 mandate renewal for the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is an opportunity to review what we know about climate change and…