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The Double Costs of Conflict-Driven Climate Change in MENA and Beyond
Apr 29, 2024
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Ariel Ezrahi
While much of the world’s attention was on the ongoing Gaza war, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region was also dealing with unprecedented…
Various Locations: Social Protection Specialist (Resilience and Registries)
Apr 29, 2024
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
FAO contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through its global mandate and goals and though its Strategic Framework…
Yemen: Livelihoods and Food Security Specialist
Apr 29, 2024
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Norwegian Refugee Council
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing…
Colombia: Court Decision to Uphold Mining Ban in Colombian Town Impacts AngloGold Project
Apr 28, 2024
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Mining.com
The Tenth Administrative Court of Ibagué, the capital city of Colombia’s western Tolima department, ratified a mining ban in the Cajamarca municipality, thus upholding the…
Turkiye: WASH Specialist Cluster Coordinator, P4, FT, Gaziantep
Apr 28, 2024
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United Nations Children's Fund
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Drone Attack on Iraqi Kurdistan’s Khor Mor Gas Field Kills Four, Halts Production
Apr 27, 2024
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Arab Weekly
Four expatriate workers were killed in a drone attack targeting the Khor Mor gas field in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Friday, an advisor to the…
In Ethiopia's Somali Region, Women Build Businesses and Resilience to Climate Change
Apr 25, 2024
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Elshaday Gebeyehu
Sadiya starts her day early by letting out her goats from her backyard barn at Bokolmayo refugee camp, a collection of makeshift houses in Ethiopia’s…
Liberia: FDA Approves Export of Illegal Timber Valued Nearly US$1M
Apr 25, 2024
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James Harding Giahyue, The Daylight
The Forestry Development Authority (FDA) approved the export of 797 logs, valued at an estimated US$923,441, despite being aware that over half of the timber…
DRC: DRC Accuses Apple of Using Illegally Exploited Minerals from Conflict-Torn East
Apr 25, 2024
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Agence France-Presse
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo is accusing Apple of using "illegally exploited" minerals extracted from the country's embattled east in its products,…
Liberia: Liberia Puts a Wartime Logger in Charge of Its Forests
Apr 25, 2024
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Ashoka Mukpo, Mongabay
Liberia’s new president, Joseph Boakai, has appointed a timber trader linked to illegal logging to head the agency responsible for the country’s forests. Rudolph Merab,…
Colombia: Only 10% of Land Stolen during Armed Conflict Restituted Since 2011
Apr 25, 2024
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Adriaan Alsema, Colombia Reports
Colombia’s authorities have over the past 13 years restituted only 10% of the land that were stolen during the armed conflict. According to NGO Forjando…
DRC: Congo Questions Apple on Concerns About Use of Conflict Minerals
Apr 25, 2024
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Paul Richardson, Bloomberg
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government notified Apple Inc. of concerns that the company’s supply chain may be tainted by conflict minerals sourced from the…
Remote: Humanitarian Support Personnel - Food and Economic Security
Apr 25, 2024
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Oxfam
Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon…
South Sudan: National Consultant for Climate Landscape Analysis for Children (CLAC), Juba, South Sudan (For South Sudan Nationals Only)
Apr 25, 2024
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United Nations Children's Fund
For more than 70 years, UNICEF has been working in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. As the world's largest…
Remote: Consultancy: Gender, Climate Change, and Conflict (2016)
Apr 25, 2024
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Oxfam
Oxfam is looking to commission a briefing paper that will investigate existing frameworks, evidence, influencing and programmatic knowledge on the climate change-conflict-gender The paper will…
Ukraine: Project and Programme Management, Public Health and Health Service
Apr 25, 2024
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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, with a network of 192-member National Societies. The…
Ukraine: Partnerships Officer SC-8 | Kyiv, Ukraine
Apr 25, 2024
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World Food Programme
The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability…
Austria: Assistant Project Officer (P1) (Women, Water Management and Conflict Prevention)
Apr 25, 2024
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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The OSCE has a comprehensive approach to security that encompasses politico-military, economic and environmental, and human aspects. It therefore addresses a wide range of security-related…
Liberia: Illegal Timber Trafficking Web Uncovered at CARI
Apr 24, 2024
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Rebazar D. Forte, The DayLight
This is not your regular sawmill. It is the Central Agriculture Research Institute (CARI) in Suakoko, Bong County, and the piles of timber are remnants…
Afghanistan: Earth Day and the Plight of Afghanistan’s Landholders: Climate Change Threatens Country
Apr 24, 2024
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Amin Kawa, Hasht-E Subh
Afghanistan is grappling not only with political and economic crises but also with the challenges of climate change. Declining groundwater levels, devastating floods, rising temperatures,…
EU Adopts Mandatory Rules on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence That Will Apply to Many US Companies
Apr 24, 2024
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Cooley
On 24 April 2024, the European Parliament voted to adopt the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), meaning it will now become law and necessitate…
Persistent Gender Inequalities Hinder Climate Resilience, Say Women
Apr 23, 2024
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Gilbert Koech
Gender equality advocates are furious that decisions on climate change do not involve women despite their vulnerability.
This as impacts of climate change continue to ravage…
Afghanistan: 1.25m Acres of Land Wrested back from Grabbers
Apr 23, 2024
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Hijratullah Kakar, Pajhwok Afghan News
Since its creation 18 months ago, the Land Grab Prevention and Restitution Commission (LGPRC) has wrested back 1.25 million acres of state land from land…
Colombia: Colombian Court Recognizes Environmental Refugees
Apr 23, 2024
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Agence France-Presse
A Colombian court has ruled that environmental calamities, sudden or gradual, can legally be considered a cause of forced displacement, placing obligations on the state…
Afghanistan/Iran: Iran Says Water Is an Important Factor in Expansion of Ties with Afghanistan
Apr 22, 2024
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Ariana News
Iran’s special representative for Afghanistan, Hasan Kazemi Qomi, said on Sunday that water is an important factor in the expansion of bilateral relations, expressing hope…
Liberia: Cocoa Farming in Liberia Risks Undermining EU Deforestation Law
Apr 22, 2024
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Joe Bavier, Reuters
Farmers are clearing forests in Liberia to create cocoa plantations and are trafficking the beans into neighbouring Ivory Coast, undermining European efforts to curb deforestation,…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan on Brink of Climate Catastrophe, UN Warns
Apr 22, 2024
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Mujeeb Rahman Awrang Stanikzai, Amu TV
On World Earth Day, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) warned that Afghanistan is on the brink of a climate catastrophe and called for immediate…
Wildlife: The Pelicans That Brought Peace to a Troubled Corner of Europe
Apr 22, 2024
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Fred Pearce, Anthropocene
A dedicated group of bird-lovers in a war-torn region of the Balkans in Europe is showing us [that water can also be a way out…
New Insensitive Munitions May Pose Lingering Toxic Threat
Apr 22, 2024
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Hanna Homestead
Within the US, the production of explosive weapons has resulted in massive amounts of pollution and ecological destruction. There are currently more than 40,000 military…
United States/Remote: Climate, Peace and Security Intern
Apr 22, 2024
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UN Department of Peace Operations
This position is located in the Partnerships/Climate Peace and Security Team, in the Policy and Best Practices Service (PBPS), Division of Policy, Evaluation and Training…