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COVID-19 and the Environmental Peacebuilding Knowledge Platform

Mar 24, 2020 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

As we collectively continue through an extraordinary public health emergency, we recognize that the everyone's lives and routines are in flux.  We are all striving to cope with a…

Women Lose Most from the Climate Crisis. How Can we Empower Them?

Mar 24, 2020 | Tharanga Gunawardena

Extreme climate events are increasingly threatening countries and livelihoods. Devastating natural disasters and unpredictable weather have made communities more vulnerable and impoverished, especially women. According…

Yemen: Environmental Health Coordinator

Mar 23, 2020 | International Rescue Committee

The IRC Yemen began its Health, Nutrition and Environmental Health programs in response to the impact of conflicts in Abyan and Aden Governorates in October…

Somalia: Portfolio Officer

Mar 23, 2020 | Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund

The AECF (Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund) is a nonprofit institution supporting early and growth-stage businesses – through the provision of patient capital – to innovate,…

Myanmar: Technical Consultant for Water Stewardship Project

Mar 23, 2020 | World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of wilderness preservation, and the reduction of…

Chad: Project Manager Radio Ndarason Internationale

Mar 23, 2020 | Okapi Consulting

Okapi Consulting gets people talking to each other in conflict zones and fragile states. We are a leader in innovative media and research projects across…

Somalia: Resilience Coordinator

Mar 23, 2020 | Trócaire

Trócaire works in over 20 developing countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to bring about lasting change to communities .Trócaire envisages…

Myanmar: Program Specialist

Mar 23, 2020 | 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…

Sudan: Head of Mission

Mar 23, 2020 | Cooperazione Internazionale

Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI) is an Italian humanitarian non-governmental organization founded in Milan in 1965. COOPI aims to help the world’s poorest to improve their access…

Yemen: Office Associate

Mar 23, 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…

Libya: National Consultant Specialist on Cost-Benefit Analysis

Mar 23, 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…

Kabul River for Peace and Development

Mar 23, 2020 | Nisar A. Memon

Kabul River (KR) is key resource for large territory of both Pakistan and Afghanistan. About 10 percent of Pakistan’s total water supply comes from the…

Promoting Peace in Deserts of Sun and Wind: Renewable Energy Cooperation between India and Pakistan

Mar 23, 2020 | Mirza Sadaqat Huda

 South Asia is one of the most conflict-prone regions in the world, in addition to facing chronic energy shortages and extreme vulnerability to climate change.…

Gender and Climate-The Importance of Women's Leadership in Climate Action in Singapore and Hong Kong

Mar 23, 2020 | John Sayer

At the most recent UN climate talks in Madrid in December 2019, one positive outcome was the approval of a new Gender Action Plan that…

Women & Climate: Planting a Global Forest in a Connected World

Mar 23, 2020 | Rita Ann Wallace and Cynthia S Reyes

In January of this year, Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, shocked much of the world when they…

Syria: Amid Syria’s Civil War, a Rise in Miscarriages Among Displaced Women in the Northeast

Mar 23, 2020 | Nicola Pardy

Kobane, Syria—Miscarriages have surged among displaced women in northeastern Syria over the last several months, according to a report released in January by Women Defend Rojava. As the…

Liberia: New Report Unveils Alarming Exploitation in Timber Industry

Mar 23, 2020 | William Q. Harmon, Observer

A damning new report has detailed the terrible working conditions akin to forced labor in Liberia’s timber industry across the country, where many young, poor…

South Sudan: South Sudan Delays Oil and Gas Bidding Round

Mar 23, 2020 | Anine Killian, Africa Oil & Power

South Sudan’s Ministry of Petroleum has suspended the country’s oil and gas licensing round – which was due to take place in March – as…

Ukraine: Water under Fire in Europe’s Forgotten War [Video]

Mar 23, 2020 | Frederick Gillingham, New Humanitarian

Six years after conflict erupted in April 2014 between Russian-backed separatists and the Ukrainian military in eastern Ukraine, the war makes few headlines but isn’t…

Iraq: Coronavirus Damages Iraqi Economy with Fall in Tourism, Oil Prices

Mar 23, 2020 | Omar al-Jaffal, Al-Monitor

As of March 23, Iraq had registered 266 novel coronavirus cases, with 23 deaths. Although Iraq is much better off than many other countries, the fast-growing number of cases…

Afghanistan: Afghanistan Forest Grown by Concern Worldwide Reaping Huge Rewards Two Decades on

Mar 23, 2020 | Kevin Jenkinson, Irish Mirror

A decision by an Irish charity to grow a forest and vegetable plot in the middle of a war in Afghanistan has reaped huge rewards…

Global Famine Predicted in Even a Limited India-Pakistan Nuclear War Due to Soot and Firestorms

Mar 22, 2020 | Earth Institute

The concept of nuclear winter — a years-long planetary freeze brought on by airborne soot generated by nuclear bombs — has been around for decades.…

South Sudan: Root Causes of Ongoing Conflict Remain Untouched

Mar 22, 2020 | Andrew Edward Yaw Tchie, The Conversation

Since civil war broke out in December 2013 in the young state of South Sudan, the country has made 12 peace agreements. None of which…

Nigeria: Consultancy - Gender and Diversity Trainer

Mar 20, 2020 | Search for Common Ground

Search for Common Ground (Search) is an international non-profit organization that promotes the peaceful resolution of conflict. With headquarters in Washington, DC and Brussels, Belgium,…

Herstory: 10 Guatemalan Women Who Changed the Course of History

Mar 20, 2020 | Melissa Vida

Guatemala’s Indigenous peoples make up 60% of the country’s population, yet somehow Indigenous people—and especially Indigenous women—rarely made it into history books. Overall, there seems…

Indonesia: Gender Equality Specialist (National/Regional)

Mar 20, 2020 | Cowater International

With more than 30 years of experience, Cowater International is Canada’s global leader in management consulting services specializing in international development. We have managed the…

South Sudan: Projects Officer

Mar 20, 2020 | Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa

The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) is a coalition of civil society organizations from Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Eritrea, Ethiopia,…

Liberia: MoA, FDA, Support Farming on Degraded Lands -Launch Cassava Production in Bomi County

Mar 19, 2020 | Moses R. Quollin, Global News Network

The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), Forestry Development Authority (FDA), under the Liberia Forest Sector Project (LFSP) have launched a cassava harvest production containing 15 hectares…

Water: Tackling the Growing Threat of Water Conflict

Mar 19, 2020 | Deutsche Welle

Charles Iceland, director of global and national water initiatives at the World Resources Institute, spoke to DW about disputes over the essential resource and how…

Malaysia: Malaysia's Women Eco-Activists Fight on in the Face of Threats and Prison

Mar 18, 2020 | Fatimah Hashim

In conjunction with International Women's Day 2020 last week, StarLifestyle spoke to four Malaysian women activists who shared their stories on how and why they're passionate about…