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South Sudan: REACH WASH Assessment Officer

Nov 1, 2020 | IMPACT Initiatives

IMPACT Initiatives is a leading Geneva-based think-and-do tank which aims to improve the impact of humanitarian, stabilisation and development action through data, partnerships and capacity…


Cambodia: National Consultant, Gender and Child Labour in Fisheries

Nov 1, 2020 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and…


Syria: WASH Program Manager

Nov 1, 2020 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International is a non-profit organization working in areas of conflict and natural disasters. Its main aim is to provide quick and effective support for…


Myanmar: WASH Program Manager Consortium

Nov 1, 2020 | Solidarités International

Solidarités International is a non-profit organization working in areas of conflict and natural disasters. Its main aim is to provide quick and effective support for…


Niger: Chief of Party, SERVIR West Africa

Nov 1, 2020 | Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries…


Afghanistan: Making Waves: Kabul Launches Novel Plan to Address Water Crisis

Nov 1, 2020 | Sayed Salahuddin, Arab News

Afghanistan’s government has started building nearly 2 million trenches and 25 small dams to address a water crisis in the capital city of Kabul, caused…


Sudan/South Sudan: Oil Crisis and Recession Bring Two African Rivals Closer Together

Nov 1, 2020 | Viktor Katona, OilPrice.com

Times of recession usually bring up overused terms like belt-tightening or company restructuring though distressed periods are just as useful for settling old scores and…


Afghanistan: Making Waves: Kabul Launches Novel Plan to Address Water Crisis

Nov 1, 2020 | Sayed Salahuddin, Arab News

Afghanistan’s government has started building nearly 2 million trenches and 25 small dams to address a water crisis in the capital city of Kabul, caused…


DRC: A History of Pillage, Destination Unknown

Oct 30, 2020 | Africa Report

Congo's history is a long litany of theft and conflict. From the slave trade, to the brutal Belgian colonisation, to the Cold War manipulation and…


Kenyan: The Fight for Laikipia’s Key Rivers: Why Locals Are Fighting for Rivers in Laikipia

Oct 30, 2020 | Jacinta Mutura, Standard

River Mutara is a lifeline for more than 30,000 households, livestock and wildlife in Laikipia County. But in the past five years, it has been…


Colombia: Women the ‘Driving Force’ for Peacebuilding in Colombia: Deputy UN Chief

Oct 30, 2020 | UN News

The Deputy Secretary-General held a meeting, via videoconference, with President Iván Duque where they discussed the socio-economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the country, protecting the…


Afghanistan: Afghanistan Achieves Transparency Despite Barriers

Oct 29, 2020 | Afghanistan Times

Following its second Validation, Afghanistan has made  meaningful progress in implementing the EITI Standard . The country has improved its transparency of licenses and contracts,…


Colombia: Embracing Organic in Colombia

Oct 29, 2020 | Tom Joyce, Fruitnet.com

Eosta's first shipment of limes from Colombian exporter Persian arrived last week with a surprise attached: almost 100 postcards from farmworkers in the valley of…


Climate Change Is a Security Issue: An Interview with Geoff Dabelko

Oct 29, 2020 | Cindy Zhou

“Climate change fundamentally impacts the political economic stability of a country,” said Dabelko. In the case of the Syrian Civil War, many experts point out…


Colombia: Years after Defeating a Giant Gold Mine, Activists in Colombia Still Fear for Their Lives

Oct 29, 2020 | Juan Zuleta Valencia, Mongabay

Residents of the municipality of Cajamarca in eastern Colombia said “no” to what would have been the second-largest open-pit gold mine in the world. Now…


UN: 20 Years After Landmark UN Resolution, Women Still Excluded in Peace Processes

Oct 29, 2020 | Margaret Besheer, Voice of America

NEW YORK - Twenty years after a landmark U.N. Security Council resolution seeking to include more women in the prevention and settlement of conflicts, the…


Speakers Call for Expedited Action to Empower, Protect Women in Conflict Zones, as Security Council Marks 20 Years since Adoption of Landmark Resolution

Oct 29, 2020 | UN Security Council

Despite Notable Progress, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Still Rampant, Women’s Leadership in Peace Processes Sorely Lagging, Secretary-General Warns. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, the head of the…


Liberia: First Rural Women Land Rights Conference Ends in Gbarnga

Oct 29, 2020 | Selma Lomax, Front Page Africa

Gbarnga, Bong County – Advocacy for women land ownership rights and call to empower women in Liberia were some of the topics that dominated a three-day…


Call for Papers: Water Security and Climate Change Conference

Oct 27, 2020 | Centers for Natural Resources and Development and Sustainable Water Management in Developing Countries Network

The Water Security and Climate Change conference (WSCC) is an annual event where scientists, policy makers and stakeholders from various sectors discuss the diverse facets…


Call for Papers: Environmental Degradation, Climate Change, and Mass Violence

Oct 27, 2020 | International Association of Genocide Scholars

The International Association of Genocide Scholars invites manuscripts on the intersections of the environment and collective violence for a special issue of Genocide Studies and Prevention,…


Call for Students: Master of Science in Security and Resilience Studies at Northeastern University

Oct 27, 2020 | Northeastern University

The Master of Science in Security and Resilience Studies at Northeastern University offers students the opportunity to gain skills to deal with resiliency challenges in both…


Kenya: In Northern Kenya, the Climate Crisis Shifts Gender Roles

Oct 26, 2020 | Lauren Evans

Drought has disrupted the traditional way of life for pastoralists, pushing many women into business for the first time.

OLDONYIRO, Kenya—On a Tuesday morning at the…


Key Player in War on Climate Change? The Pentagon

Oct 26, 2020 | Michèle A. Flournoy

To its credit, the DoD has already been investing over $1.5 billion of its annual research and development budget in new energy technologies. In the past,…


How to Build a More Equal World

Oct 26, 2020 | Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Just as the World Health Organization identified COVID-19 as a pandemic, UN Women launched our analysis of the global status of women’s rights, showing limited…


Mining Forum Reviews Impacts of COVID-19 on Climate Action, Gender Equality

Oct 26, 2020 | International Institute for Sustainable Development

The 16th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) convened online to discuss issues related to…


Kenya: In Northern Kenya, the Climate Crisis Shifts Gender Roles

Oct 26, 2020 | Lauren Evans, Foreign Policy

OLDONYIRO, Kenya—On a Tuesday morning at the Oldonyiro livestock market in November, Samaria Leyagu was doing what just a few years ago would have been…


Myanmar: Myanmar Land Rights Activism in New Animation from PRIO [Video]

Oct 26, 2020 | Peace Research Institute Oslo

What drives the small but often heroic everyday acts of people in their attempts to challenge dehumanization and abuse in violent conflict? In this story,…


Climate Change: Climate Wars: The New Cold War [Audio]

Oct 25, 2020 | BBC

Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at more than twice the global average, and as the ice pack melts, battle lines are being drawn between…


Afghanistan: Afghanistan's First Saffron Institute to Be Inaugurated in Herat

Oct 25, 2020 | Afghanistan Times

The first Afghanistan Saffron Institute would be inaugurated by the end of this year in the western Herat province. The State Radio Television reported that…


Iraq/Kurdistan: As Oil Dives, Kurds Return to Sidelined Farms

Oct 25, 2020 | Qassim Khider, Agence France-Presse

Iraq’s Kurdish region has for decades lived off its oil wealth, but plummeting energy prices amid the COVID-19 pandemic and financial mismanagement are forcing locals…