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Iraq: Decades of Plundering: Where Has Iraq’s Oil Wealth Gone? [Video]

Feb 13, 2021 | Al Jazeera

Iraq’s dire public services, regular power cuts and water shortages have sparked protest across the country. Ranked as the fourth-biggest oil producer in the world,…

Myanmar: Jade and Rubies: How Myanmar’s Military Amassed Its Fortune

Feb 13, 2021 | Kuwait Times

Mines, banks, petroleum, agriculture, tourism: Myanmar’s ruling junta has vested interests in large swathes of the country’s economy, providing it a colossal and closely guarded…

Cambodia: Developing Guideline for Gender Mainstreaming into Climate Change/DRR

Feb 13, 2021 | UN Women

The UN Women Cambodia Country Office (CCO) Strategic Note (SN) 2019-2023 focuses on three key priorities to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE). The…

Senegal: Gender in Disaster Risk Reduction and Risk-Informed Development

Feb 13, 2021 | UN Women

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation…

United States: Policy Analyst, African Union Women, Peace and Security Liaison

Feb 13, 2021 | UN Women

UN Women's Peace, Security and Humanitarian Section is responsible for providing technical support to UN Women Country Offices in a number of areas, including: conflict…

Rwanda: Social Safeguards Coordinator

Feb 13, 2021 | Wildife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society is an international NGO headquartered at Bronx Zoo in New York City, USA, working to save wildlife and wild lands and…

South Sudan: Call for Program Management Professionals – USAID Gender Aware Sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (GASWASH) Activity

Feb 13, 2021 | DT Global

Built on more than 50 years of experience from AECOM International Development, Development Transformations, and GPD Charitable Trust, DT Global is pioneering a new model…

Sierra Leone: National Gender and Social Inclusion Expert

Feb 13, 2021 | Pact

At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow. A nonprofit international development organization founded in 1971, Pact works on the ground…

Women Bear the Brunt of Climate Change

Feb 12, 2021 | Michelle Langrand, Geneva Solutions

Women are among the most affected by climate-related insecurity, and yet they’re often absent from the conversation. Experts hope that by understanding how they are…

Treading Water: The Dark Legacy of Hydropower Development in Myanmar

Feb 12, 2021 | Thiri Shwesin Aung

While hydropower is a vital source of renewable energy, the development of new hydropower plants can often result in adverse environmental, social and human rights…

Ghana: Empowering Women in Climate Action with Alternative Livelihood Options

Feb 12, 2021 | Praise Nutakor, GhanaWeb

Like many people in rural communities in Ghana, Mali Yakubu and her family in Tampion in the Northern Region are not able to farm during…

Ethiopia/Sudan: Will Sudan-Ethiopia Border Conflict Affect GERD Talks?

Feb 11, 2021 | Hagar Hosny, Al-Monitor

Border tensions have escalated between Sudan and Ethiopia in the past few days, coupled with Ethiopian threats to Sudan if it does not respond to…

Ethiopia: Pregnant Women Struggle to Find Support, Stability After Displacement From Tigray Region in Ethiopia

Feb 11, 2021 | UNFPA

GONDAR, Ethiopia – “When you think about your future, you never plan to be uprooted from the comfort of your home and find fragile safety in a…

Nigeria: Farmer-Herders Conflict: Senate Warns against Ethno-Religious War, Famine

Feb 10, 2021 | Sanni Onogu, Nation

The increasing spate of insecurity may lead to an ethnoreligious war and famine, Deputy Senate Leader, Ajayi Boroffice, has said. He is worried that the nation…

Colombia: Colombia Launches Agency to Sell, Rent Properties of Former Fighters

Feb 10, 2021 | Nelson Bocanegra, Reuters

Colombia launched a real estate agency on Wednesday to rent and sell properties handed over by former far-right paramilitaries and leftist guerrillas as a way…

UNFPA Elevates Climate Action to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Women and Girls During the Decade of Action

Feb 10, 2021 | UNFPA

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—The impact of climate change is already being felt and is projected to intensify significantly over the next 10 years. During the Nairobi Summit in Kenya in…

Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations Open Consultation with the Humanitarian Sector

Feb 9, 2021 | International Committee of the Red Cross and International Federation of the Red Cross

On Tuesday, February 9th, 2021 from 9am-10am and 4pm-5pm CET the ICRC and IFRC will be co-hosting an open consultation with the Humanitarian Sector.

The humanitarian consequences of the climate…

Pan-African Response to COVID-19: New Forms of Environmental Peacebuilding Emerge

Feb 9, 2021 | Ousseyni Kalilou, Elaine (Lan Yin) Hsiao, and Fakunle Aremu

Early predictions about COVID-19’s impacts on Africa suggested that the continent would be a disaster zone marked by weak medical systems collapsing under strain and undemocratic states failing to…

India: Women Will Bear the Brunt of India’s New Farm Laws

Feb 9, 2021 | Bansari Kamdar, World Politics News

For over two months, hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers have been conducting sustained sit-ins on the outskirts of New Delhi. Undeterred by COVID-19 or violent police…

Vietnam: US Firms behind Agent Orange Stand Trial in France

Feb 9, 2021 | Progressive International

The civil complaint targets more than 20 US chemical firms for their part in the production of Agent Orange, massively employed by US forces during…

Myanmar: Myanmar’s Troubled Forestry Sector Seeks Global Endorsement after Coup

Feb 8, 2021 | Mongabay

In the midst of political chaos fomented by a Feb. 1 military coup of the government in Myanmar, the country’s forestry sector is seeking legitimization…

Road to Geneva Announces Series of Initiatives to Strengthen Environmental Peacebuilding

Feb 8, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association has launched a series of initiatives designed to strengthen environmental peacebuilding. Undertaken in partnership with institutions around the world, the initiatives…

Bangladesh: Gender Equality Can Bring Sustained Peace, Security

Feb 8, 2021 | The Daily Star

Ensuring equality between men and women both in public and private spheres can bring about sustainable peace and security, foreign diplomats and civil society members…

A Climate Security Plan for America Part 2: Assess Climate Risks

Feb 7, 2021 | Erin Sikorsky

If the first pillar of the Climate Security Plan for America is all about leadership, the second pillar is about ensuring those leaders have the information they…

Leverage COVID-19 Data Collection Networks for Environmental Peacebuilding

Feb 7, 2021 | Carsten Pran

Environmental peacebuilding could benefit from COVID-era data innovation. A well-documented obstacle environmental peacebuilders face is a lack of shared, empirical datasets among parties engaged in, recovering from,…

India: Assam: Aaranyak Installs 18-km Solar-Powered Fence in Nagrijuli to Reduce Human-Elephant Conflict

Feb 7, 2021 | Ne Now News

The premier biodiversity conservation organisation, Aaranyak has installed 18 km of solar-powered fence to facilitate human-elephant coexistence at Nagrijuli in Baksa district. Aaranyak said this…

Without the Right Partnerships, EU Legislation Is Dead on Arrival

Feb 7, 2021 | Boukje Theeuwes

Over the course of the next year, we expect the Von Der Leyen Commission, with the backing of the major groupings of the European Parliament,…

Water Wars Special: How IUU Fishing Increases the Risk of Conflict

Feb 7, 2021 | Sam Cohen and Steve Floyd

This month, the Biden administration made some early pronouncements on Chinese activity in the Taiwan Strait and reassured Japan that the U.S. is committed to…

The Biden Administration & Climate Security: Week Two

Feb 7, 2021 | Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werrell

“This executive order I’m signing today…makes it official that climate change will be the center of our national security and foreign policy.” — President Joe Biden, January…

CAR: Project Administrator

Feb 6, 2021 | Cooperazione Internazionale

COOPI is an Italian, independent and secular non-governmental organization, founded in Milan in 1965. For more than 50 years, COOPI has been committed to the…