International
Afghanistan: UN Warns: Afghanistan’s Water Crisis and Lack of Green Spaces Threaten Lives
Jun 4, 2025
Hasht-e-Subh Daily
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has issued a warning regarding environmental degradation and the consequences of climate change in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan: Plundering Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth: Global Silence and Environmental Destruction
Jun 4, 2025
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Ahmad Tamim Azimi
Hasht-e-Subh Daily
Afghanistan is a land rich in underground resources—an abundance that, in terms of value and diversity, could form the backbone of its national economy and…
New UN Review Highlights Youth Role in Climate, Peace, and Security
Jun 4, 2025
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Tara Abhasakun
Peace News
Across the globe, 698 million young people between the ages of 15 and 35 live in fragile and conflict-affected settings, according to the United Nations…
Canada: Assembly of First Nations Releases 2025 Progress Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice, Highlighting Human Trafficking Crisis
Jun 3, 2025
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The Assembly of First Nations
The Assembly of First Nations
(June 3, 2025 – Unceded Algonquin Territory, Ottawa) – On the sixth anniversary of the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered…
Colombia: Peace Has Long Been Elusive in Rural Colombia - Black Women’s Community Groups Try to Bring It Closer Each Day
Jun 3, 2025
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Tania Lizarazo
MSN
It’s been almost nine years since Colombia celebrated a landmark peace agreement between one guerrilla group and the government, and three years since President Gustavo Petro vowed “total…
Liberia: RICCE Program Manager Urges Passage of Oil Palm Development Bill to Empower Women and Communities
Jun 3, 2025
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GNNLiberia
GNNLiberia
The Program Manager of the Rural Integrated Center for Community Empowerment (RICCE), Madam Renee N. Gibson, has called for the submission and passage of the…
Iraq/Kurdistan: 'Oil Law Key to Ending Baghdad-Erbil Standoff,' Says Iraq's Ruling Shiite Bloc
Jun 3, 2025
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Kamaran Aziz
Kurdistan24
Iraq’s Coordination Framework urged swift passage of the stalled Oil and Gas Law to resolve Erbil-Baghdad disputes and called for constitutional solutions to the Kurdistan…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal Sparks Water Security Concerns in Central Asia
Jun 3, 2025
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Sadokat Jalolova
Times of Central Asia
Afghanistan is rapidly advancing construction of the Qosh Tepa Canal, a large-scale water infrastructure project in the north of the country that could have far-reaching…
Colombia: Aiming a Blow at Narcos, Colombia Pays Farmers to Uproot Coca
Jun 2, 2025
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David Salazar
Agence France-Presse
With cocaine production at an all-time high, Colombia's government is testing a pacific approach to its narcotics problem: paying farmers to uproot crops of coca,…
Afghanistan: Taliban Award Mining Contracts Worth over $2.6 Billion in Five Months
Jun 2, 2025
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Yasin Shayan
Amu TV
Taliban have awarded four major mining contracts valued at approximately 180 billion Afghanis (about $2.6 billion) over the past five months, according to a review…
Nigeria: Nigeria Bets on Farming-Based Reintegration Plan to Tackle Rural Insecurity
Jun 2, 2025
Ecofin Agency
The Nigerian government is stepping up efforts to curb insecurity by shifting part of its strategy away from the battlefield and toward the farm. On…
Afghanistan: Taliban's 'Green Force' Battles Illegal Logging in Afghanistan's Vanishing Forests [Video]
Jun 1, 2025
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Osama Bin Javaid
Al Jazeera
Afghanistan’s forests have shrunk dramatically due to decades of illegal logging by armed groups, with only 10% of tree cover remaining in some areas. The…
Iraq: Black Gold, Broken Promises: Basra's Youth Demand Justice amid Oil Profits and Pollution
Jun 1, 2025
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Kamaran Aziz
Kurdistan 24
Petroleum graduates in Basra protest joblessness amid oil wealth, corruption, and pollution. Security forces crack down as locals suffer from toxic gas flaring. Calls grow…
DRC: Legal Action over Huge DR Congo Lithium Project on Hold as US Battles China’s Dominance
Jun 1, 2025
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Jevans Nyabiage
South China Morning Post
Australia’s AVZ Minerals has suspended its arbitration case against the Democratic Republic of Congo until later this month, following US encouragement to resolve the dispute…
Afghanistan: Trespassers on Their Land: Nomads Displaced by Afghanistan’s Conservation Zones
May 31, 2025
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Manija Mirzaie
Fair Planet
Kuchi herders of Afghanistan have for centuries lived in harmony with the land, migrating seasonally in search of grazing pastures for their livestock. Today, conservation…
Austria/Slovenia: Only Two European States Have Net Zero Military Emissions Target, Data Shows
May 31, 2025
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Ajit Niranjan
Guardian
Just two of 30 European countries have set a date to stop their militaries from emitting planet-heating emissions, a Guardian analysis has found, raising concerns…
Sweden: OSCE Workshop Tackles Gender, Climate, Security
May 30, 2025
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Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Mirage News
How gender intersects with climate-related security risks was one of the questions explored by experts and practitioners at the "Gendered Perspectives on Climate and Security:…
United Kingdom: UK Must Consider Food and Climate Part of National Security, Say Top ex-Military Figures
May 30, 2025
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Matthew Taylor
Guardian
Former military leaders are urging the UK government to widen its definition of national security to include climate, food and energy measures in advance of…
Myanmar Opium Production: War-Displaced Turn to Poppy Cultivation to Survive [Video]
May 30, 2025
Al Jazeera
Myanmar is on track for another year of record opium production, after overtaking Afghanistan as the largest producer in the world. The number of farmers…
Cambodia: Lieutenant Colonel Sorm Leangy, a Force for Peace
May 29, 2025
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UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific
"I was the first woman from my village to become a peacekeeper,” says Lieutenant Colonel Sorm Leangy, her voice steady with pride. “At first, people…
Liberia: From Farm to Market: Digital Platform Connects Women Farmers to Buyers
May 29, 2025
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Tina Mehnpaine
Front Page Africa
When scrolling through the UN Women and Orange Foundation-supported ”Buy from Women digital platform, the faces of four Liberian women farmers appear. Fifty-six-year-old Gertrude Kpoleh,…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq’s Federal Oil and Gas Law Falls between Constitutional Texts and Political Disputes
May 29, 2025
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Hamdi Sanjari
Arab Weekly
Once again, disputes are reigniting tensions, this time triggered by recent contracts signed by the Kurdistan Region with two American companies in the gas sector.…
Stimson Center Welcomes New Leadership to Environmental Security Program
May 29, 2025
Stimson Center
The Stimson Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Lauren Herzer Risi as Senior Fellow and Director of the Environmental Security Program. Sally Yozell,…
Mexico: Women Who Nourish the Earth: Yuridia Hernández and the Feminine Strength in Sustainable Agriculture
May 28, 2025
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Sarah Martínez Gámiz
Cimmyt
In the lands of Oaxaca’s Mixteca, where rainfall no longer comes as it once did and the soil begins to feel the weight of years…
Afghanistan: 1 Killed, 8 Injured over Land Dispute in Afghanistan
May 28, 2025
Xinhua
One person has been confirmed dead and eight others sustained injury as two families clashed over a land dispute in eastern Afghanistan's Kapisa province, said…
Iraq: Basra’s Wealth Extracted, Its People Abandoned
May 28, 2025
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Kamaran Aziz
Kurdistan24
Basra, the city often hailed as Iraq’s economic engine and the heart of its oil wealth, is now synonymous with suffering. Despite its vast petroleum…
Sudan/South Sudan/Abyei: Tension in Abyei as Sudan’s War Affects the Disputed Region
May 28, 2025
Ayin Network
While the oil-rich disputed Abyei region between Sudan and South Sudan has remained relatively calm over the past few years, recent escalations may destabilise this…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq Files Lawsuit against US over Kurdistan Oil Contracts
May 27, 2025
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Charles Kennedy
Oilprice.com
Iraq has filed a lawsuit against the United States over oil contracts between American companies and the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq, escalating a…
Tanzania: From Burden to Opportunity: Mechanization in Rural Tanzania
May 26, 2025
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Martin Majambele, Esther Cheyo, Radegunda Kessy, Atupokile Mwakatwila, Justus Ochieng, and Maximillian Saku
Alliance Biodiversity CIAT
Beneath vast Tanzanian skies, where fields stretch like patchwork quilts of promise, a quiet revolution is taking root. It doesn’t shout—but whispers change with every…
Malaysia: Terengganu to Plant Napier Grass as Food for Wild Elephants to Reduce Conflicts
May 24, 2025
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Baharom Bakar
New Straits Times
The cultivation of Napier grass as an alternative food source for wild elephants is among the initiatives proposed by the Terengganu government to address wildlife…