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DRC: DRC Landscape Restoration Is Electrifying!
Jun 12, 2019
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Ahtziri Gonzalez, Forests News
For the 45 million people living in rural Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) there are few livelihood opportunities beyond the exploitation of forest resources.…
Viet Nam: Growing Vegetables against All Odds on Spratly Islands
Jun 11, 2019
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Hồng Minh, Viet Nam News
As the last-born in a four-children family with two brothers and one sister in the central province of Quảng Ngãi, 21-year-old Phan Gia Cường never…
Myanmar: Gov't Lifts Ban on Plantation Teak Exports
Jun 11, 2019
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Htun Htun, Irrawaddy
The Myanmar government will again allow the exportation of raw teak and timber from state and privately-owned plantations, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation…
Land: Touted as 'Development,' Land Grabs Hurt Local Communities, and Women Most of All
Jun 11, 2019
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Steve Lundeberg, Oregon State University
Large-scale land transactions in which nations sell huge, publicly owned parcels to foreign and domestic corporations negatively affect local women more than men, a new…
Iraq: Iraq May Soon Replace Oil Wells with Solar Panels
Jun 11, 2019
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Austin Bodetti, New Arab
While Iraq's long-term prosperity has remain intertwined with the petroleum industry since the country gained independence in 1932, Iraqi entrepreneurs, environmentalists, and officials anticipate their…
Myanmar: Regreening a Barren Rohingya Refugee Camp on Myanmar’s Border
Jun 11, 2019
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Kaamil Ahmed, Mongabay
Where a year ago there were only the desolate remains of a forest scythed from hills to house hundreds of thousands in the world’s largest…
India: Water Wars among Monkeys as Relentless Heat Dries Ponds in MP Forests
Jun 11, 2019
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Kashif Kakvi, Newsclick
Conflict among humans over water in summer is not new, but, conflict among animal has been unheard of till date. In a shocking incident, as…
The Nature of Social Justice Advocacy and Local Resistance to Land Concession in Liberia: Impact on Land Governance System, Customary Land Rights and State Response
Jun 10, 2019
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Baba Sillah
One of the decisive moments in social justice advocacies for land rights in the recent history of Liberia came in 2011, when rural communities, wrote…
The River Is Life
Jun 10, 2019
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Chocó River Stories
For communities living along the Río Atrato, ‘the river is life’. Rivers play a central role in the cultural, economic and social life of the…
3 Pentagon Strategy Documents in 3 Months Highlight Climate Change Risks
Jun 10, 2019
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Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia
From April to June of this year, the U.S. military has issued not one, but three strategy documents that highlight climate change risks to the…
Three Surprising Solutions to Climate Change
Jun 10, 2019
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Jeff McMahon
When the analysts at Project Drawdown quantified the impact of 100 solutions to climate change, they were surprised by some of their results, the organization's executive…
Afghanistan: The Impact of Illegal Drugs in Afghanistan on Political Settlement
Jun 10, 2019
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Wadsam
The result of a study conducted by the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) with the financial support of the European Union indicates that ongoing debates on the…
Iraq: Iraqi Citizens Choked by Worsening Pollution Problem, Government Negligence
Jun 10, 2019
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Nick Meyer, Arab American News
Iraq is suffering from a pollution crisis as citizens struggle with life in the slums where burning trash dumped by city officials is making life…
Namibia: Namibia Promotes Women's Rights in Accessing Communal Land to Ensure Food Security
Jun 10, 2019
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Xinhua
Namibian Juliana Uushona, 46, lost her husband four years ago and with his death, she also lost their property after her in-laws took everything. With nowhere…
Humanitarian Aid Failing to Be Feminist as Funding for Women Lags behind
Jun 10, 2019
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Nellie Peyton, Reuters
About 0.1% of humanitarian funding goes to addressing violence against women and girls worldwide, charities said on Monday, prompting calls for a new “feminist” approach…
India/Pakistan: Climate Wars? Major India-Pakistan Conflict Predicted over Ownership of Water
Jun 9, 2019
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Nirad Mudur, New Indian Express
A whole range of issues — unending cross-border terrorism and the radicalisation of youth in Kashmir being the most prominent among them — keep India…
Myanmar: World Oceans Day 2019: This Luxury Eco-Resort in Myanmar Is Cleaning up the Sea
Jun 8, 2019
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Hayley Skirka, National
Despite having opened its doors just six months ago, the Awei Pila Resort in Myanmar’s remote Mergui archipelago has already had a positive impact on…
Venezuela: Venezuela's Mining Arc: A Legal Veneer for Armed Groups to Plunder
Jun 8, 2019
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Bram Ebus, Guardian
Venezuela claims to possess some of the largest untapped gold and coltan reserves in the world, and the country’s gold rush picked up when the…
Reducing Greenhouse Gases Is a Security Issue
Jun 7, 2019
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Joshua Busby
Fifteen years ago, luck would change the trajectory of my professional career. I was a predoctoral fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, so…
It's Time for the U.N. Security Council to Take on Climate Change
Jun 7, 2019
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Gregory Meeks and Michael Shank
This year, the United Nations Security Council debated, once again, climate change’s concrete impact on peace and security, noting that climate risks are a reality for…
Women as Climate Action Ambassadors in Coastal Districts of India's Odisha State
Jun 7, 2019
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UN Environment
People in the coastal districts of the eastern Indian state of Odisha are increasingly suffering from the effects of climate change. Most households in the…
Groups Join Forces to Fight Military Toxic Exposure
Jun 7, 2019
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Leo Shane III, Military Times
More than a dozen veterans advocacy groups will join forces to track and highlight toxic exposure illnesses among former military members in an attempt to…
Sierra Leone: Academic Uses Film to Raise Plight of Sierra Leone Diamond Miners
Jun 7, 2019
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Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education
It is widely known that “blood diamonds” played a major role in funding the rebel Revolutionary United Front during the ghastly civil war in Sierra…
Women as Climate Action Ambassadors in Coastal Districts of India's Odisha State
Jun 7, 2019
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UN Environment
People in the coastal districts of the eastern Indian state of Odisha are increasingly suffering from the effects of climate change. Most households in the…
Iraq: Gender and Protection Manager
Jun 6, 2019
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CARE
About CARE: CARE International (CARE) is a non-religious and non-political international humanitarian aid organization dedicated to fighting global poverty, through diverse public and private partnerships…
DRC: Women Protection & Empowerment Program Coordinator-Ebola Response
Jun 6, 2019
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International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC…
UN Women: Policy Specialist - Governance and National Planning
Jun 6, 2019
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UN Women
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and…
A Woman Even Here: Protecting Arab Women's Rights is a Key to Mitigating Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa
Jun 6, 2019
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Rudroneel Gosh
A pertinent session at the ongoing Women Deliver Conference 2019 focussed on the challenges faced by women in the Arab world. Hosted by UNFPA Arab…
Why More Women Should Be Included in the Leadership of Virunga National Park
Jun 6, 2019
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Judith Verweijen, Janvier Murairi, and Esther Marijnen
Since 2014, the number of female park guards serving in Virunga National Park, located in war-ridden eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been gradually…
27 Women Leading the Charge to Protect Our Environment
Jun 6, 2019
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Veronique Hyland, Naomi Rougeau and Julie Vandal
Scientists have called our current, climate change–threatened era the Anthropocene, but as the eco-economist Kate Raworth once joked, women are left out of the narrative…