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Yemen: Yemen Sees Return to Alarming Levels of Food Insecurity - UNICEF, WFP, FAO & OCHA
Jul 22, 2020
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UNICEF
Economic shocks, conflict, floods, desert locusts and now COVID-19 are creating a perfect storm that could reverse hard-earned food security gains in Yemen, warns the…
China/Vietnam/South China Sea: Oil and Gas Fueling South China Sea Tensions
Jul 22, 2020
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Helen Clark, Asia Times
Vietnam’s crucial offshore energy industry is being squeezed as US-China tensions rise in the South China Sea. According to reports, China is pressing for the…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq's Tussle with Semi-Autonomous Kurdish Region Seen Complicating Energy Policy
Jul 21, 2020
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Dania Saadi, S&P Global Platts
Iraq's federal government has a complicated energy relationship with the Kurdish region that is unlikely to be resolved due to differences within the semi-autonomous entity…
Liberia: Oil Spill in Liberian Capital Creates Environmental Hazard - and Opportunity
Jul 21, 2020
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Darlington Porkpa, Radio France Internationale
An oil spill in the Mesurado River in the Liberian capital Monrovia has prompted hundreds of people to rush to collect the fuel, as environmental…
To Solve the Climate Crisis, Women Must Own More of the World's Land
Jul 21, 2020
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Martha Merrow
Land, women, and climate change: the future of all three are intrinsically connected and must be addressed comprehensively to create equitable change and a livable…
Why Gender Provisions in Peace Agreements Are Not Enough to Ensure Post-Conflict Progress for Women
Jul 20, 2020
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Nicole Smith
The United Nations recently announced that almost 80 million people were forcibly displaced around the world last year due to war, conflict, or persecution. As COVID-19 continues…
Myanmar: Difficult to Enforce Law in Kachin’s Jade Mine Town: Officials
Jul 20, 2020
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Kyaw Ko Ko, Myanmar Times
Law enforcement is a major challenge in the Hpakant jade mining town in Kachin State, the site of the deadliest landslide in the country’s recent…
China/Vietnam/South China Sea: Did China Block Vietnam Offshore Oil Contract?
Jul 20, 2020
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Ralph Jennings, Voice of America
The sudden cancellation of an offshore drilling project commissioned by Vietnam is raising fears that the Chinese government pressured it to stop, part of Beijing’s…
Crisis Reveals the Fault Lines of Gender in Environmentalism—How Do We Value Everyday Environments?
Jul 20, 2020
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Nathalie Blanc, Sandra Laugier, Pascale Molinier, and Anne Querrien
These are times of crisis. One might even think that the COVID-19 crisis looks like a an alternative expression of crises that are already building,…
Science Suppression Is a Security Threat – Whether Climate or Covid
Jul 20, 2020
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Francesco Femia
A little over a year ago, the White House tried to block the testimony of a respected professional, Dr. Rod Schoonover – senior analyst and senior…
South Africa Warns UN Security Council about Violence Against Women in Occupied Western Sahara
Jul 19, 2020
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Sahara Press Service
South Africa warned the UN Security Council about the increasing violations of human rights in occupied Palestine and Western Sahara, in particular the hostilities permanently…
Yemen: How a Decaying Oil Tanker became a 'Massive Floating Bomb' Risking Millions of Lives in Yemen
Jul 18, 2020
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Campbell MacDiarmid, Telegraph
Time is running out to prevent an “environmental disaster waiting to happen” in the Red Sea, the UK and the UN warned this week, as…
South Sudan: South Sudan Oil Production Plummets to 170,000 bpd Due to COVID-19
Jul 17, 2020
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Xinhua
South Sudan oil production has dropped to 170,000 barrels per day (bpd) from 185,000 bpd due to disruptions caused by COVID-19 pandemic, said a senior…
Call for Applications for the First Cohort of Women for the Environment Africa
Jul 17, 2020
In 2017, Women for the Environment Africa (WE Africa) was born through the determination of a small dedicated group of women conservationists frustrated with the current…
In Mozambique, Promoting Biodiversity Includes Greater Gender Equality
Jul 17, 2020
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Amanda Jerneck and Carmen Lahoz Rallo
Increasing girls’ access to education and empowering women has become a core intervention area of the Mozambique Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) Portfolio, of which MozBio is…
South Sudan: Local Communities Demand Implementation of Petroleum Laws
Jul 17, 2020
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Patrick Godi, Gurtong
In the face of surging coronavirus cases in South Sudan and its crippling effects, communities living in the oil producing areas have said they’re are…
Egypt: Regional Emergency Gender Based Violence Advisor (REGA) Arabic speaking
Jul 16, 2020
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Norwegian Refugee Council
We are seeking a talented individual for the post of Regional Emergency Gender Based Violence Advisor (REGA) level P4/P5 to be based in Cairo, Egypt…
Conflict in South China Sea Again?
Jul 16, 2020
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Elfren S. Cruz
The pandemic is at the center of public attention because it is the most relevant among current threats to the Philippines. There are, however, other…
Colombia: Security Council Press Statement on Colombia
Jul 16, 2020
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UN Security Council
The members of the Security Council reiterated their full and unanimous support for the peace process in Colombia and reaffirmed their commitment to working closely…
Egypt/Sudan: Satellite Images of Dam Raise Tensions in Egypt and Sudan
Jul 16, 2020
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Jonathan Tirone and Samuel Gebre, Bloomberg
Satellite images of Africa’s biggest hydropower project show a reservoir flooding with water from heavy rainfall in recent weeks, adding to tensions that risk spilling…
Iraq: Southern Iraq’s Toxic Twilight
Jul 16, 2020
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Alissa J. Rubin and Clifford Krauss, New York Times
Iraq is the rare country that imports gas but also burns natural gas from oil wells into the air. The wasted gas is enough to…
Tajikistan Shows Why Humanitarian Disarmament Must Adapt to Climate Change
Jul 15, 2020
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Linsey Cottrell
Together with Norwegian People’s Aid, we have been considering how climate change may affect humanitarian disarmament. Tajikistan is affected by landmines and cluster munitions and…
United States: Policy Specialist - Gender and Peacebuilding
Jul 15, 2020
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UN Women
BackgroundUN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and…
Why the Nile Constitutes a New Kind of Water Dispute – and Why That’s Dangerous
Jul 15, 2020
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Peter Schwartzstein
Ever since workers first broke ground on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2011, international commenters have fixated on the Nile as a possible…
Myanmar: Neither Return nor More Compensation: Myanmar Military Stands Firmly on Farmers’ Confiscated Land
Jul 15, 2020
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Kyaw Myo, Irrawaddy
The Defense Ministry says it has no plan to return the farmland it confiscated for a sugar mill project in Sagaing Region’s Kantbalu Township or…
COVID-19 and Gender Equality: Countering the Regressive Effects
Jul 15, 2020
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Anu Madgavkar, Olivia White, Mekala Krishnan, Deepa Mahajan, and Xavier Azcue
As COVID-19 continues to affect lives and livelihoods around the world, we can already see that the pandemic and its economic fallout are having a regressive…
How Women Can Power the Green Transition
Jul 15, 2020
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Irene Giner-Reichl
The world needs to shift from the current fossil-fuel-based energy system to carbon neutrality. Most obviously, this will require countries to roll out renewable energy…
Uganda: Program Officer, National Association Of Women Judges
Jul 14, 2020
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International Development Law Organization
International Development Law Organisation (IDLO) with funding from the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), is implementing the Community Justice Programme (CJP) 2018-2023, which seeks to…
Kenya: Advocacy Lead
Jul 14, 2020
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Faith to Action
Faith to Action Network mobilizes faith organizations’ support for family health and wellbeing. We focus on issues that faith actors are grappling with, including sexual…
Myanmar: Expert in Gender and Inclusion
Jul 14, 2020
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Social Impact
USAID Burma Advancing Transition to Peaceful Democracy Through Participation of Civil Society and Media (CSM-II)
Project Objective:
Social Impact has been commissioned to conduct a mid-term evaluation for…