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Nepal: Nutrition Consultant, Nutrition and Emergencies

Aug 27, 2018 | UN Children's Fund

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To…

Environmental Peacebuilding Association Engages the Environmental Law Institute to Serve as the Secretariat

Aug 27, 2018

The Board of Directors of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association is pleased to announce that the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) will serve as the first host for…

Liberia: Liberia Set to Secure Ancestral Land Rights with Long-Awaited Law

Aug 27, 2018 | Nellie Peyton, Reuters

Liberia is on the verge of passing a long-awaited land rights law that would help prevent foreign companies uprooting communities to make way for mining…

Iraq: 'Iraq Is Dying': Oil Flows Freely but Corruption Fuels Growing Anger

Aug 27, 2018 | Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Guardian

The land of the Bani-Mansour clan north-east of Basra is flat and parched, spattered with dry crusts of salt and thorny shrubs. Clusters of palm…

Liberia: Land Rights Act Passed

Aug 27, 2018 | J. Burgess Carter, Observer

Following years of open hearings, debates, committee reports, and conference committee work, the Senate at its 54th day sitting last Thursday, unanimously voted to concur…

Iraq: Iraq Restores Part of Largest Oil Refinery after 4-Year Hiatus

Aug 27, 2018 | Xinhua

Iraq has rehabilitated part of its largest oil refinery located in Baiji of the country's central province of Salahudin after it was sabotaged in fierce…

Iraq: Oil-Rich Basra Threatens Vote to Pull Away from Iraq

Aug 27, 2018 | Gilgamesh Nabeel and Tamara Emad, Washington Times

Protesters poured into the streets and picketed oil fields in southern Iraq amid growing discontent over the government’s failure to combat unemployment, provide drinkable water…

Myanmar: Over 13,000 Tonnes of Illegal Timber Seized in Four Months

Aug 27, 2018 | Hsan Htoo Aung, Eleven

From April to July of this fiscal year, the government could seize 13183.2095 tonnes of illegal timber, according to the figures released by Forest Department.…

South Sudan: South Sudan Resumes Pumping 20,000 bpd from Oil Field Suspended Since 2013 - Sudan

Aug 26, 2018 | Reuters

South Sudan has resumed pumping 20,000 bpd of crude from Toma South oil field, where production had been suspended since 2013, the Sudanese oil minister…

Myanmar: Myanmar Returns Confiscated Land to Farmers in Central Region

Aug 26, 2018 | Xinhua

The Myanmar government has returned over 481.92 acres (195 hectares) of farmland confiscated by the Ministry of Defense to 123 farmers in Toungoo, Bago region,…

Liberia: Senate Passes Land Rights Act

Aug 25, 2018 | Ida Reeves, Bush Chicken

The Liberian Senate has finally concurred with the House of Representatives to pass the Land Rights Act. If signed into law by President George Weah,…

Iraq: Iraqi Protest against Unsafe Water in Basra [Video]

Aug 25, 2018 | Osama Bin Javaid, Al Jazeera

People have been protesting in the Iraqi city of Basra after hundreds fell ill after drinking contaminated water. Iraq's government is investigating what caused this…

South Sudan: Production to Restart at South Sudan Oilfields

Aug 25, 2018 | Africa Oil & Power

Intensive preparations for oil production resumption will culminate on August 25 at Toma South, South Sudan, with the relaunch of production from blocks 1, 2…

Land: Rise of Agri-Cartel: Control of Land Drives Human Rights Violations, Environmental Destruction

Aug 24, 2018 | Sonya Swink, Globe Post

Control of land for crops that sustain the world’s largest food businesses, such as Ferrero and Nestle, is the driving force behind the destruction of…

Call for Applications: 2018 GCSP Prize for Innovation in Global Security

Aug 23, 2018 | Geneva Centre for Security Policy

The Geneva Center For Security Policy (GCSP) and its Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme are now accepting applications for the 2018 GCSP Prize for Innovation…

Myanmar: Water Project Offers Hope to Farmers in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone

Aug 23, 2018 | Evan Erickson, Mizzima

While the Dry Zone farmers of today are using techniques and working alongside irrigation schemes that are ancient in origin, the historical and climatic contexts…

Myanmar: Jade, Drugs and GDP

Aug 23, 2018 | Thiha Saw, Myanmar Times

Myanmar boasts of possessing precious natural resources including those that are mined, legally or otherwise, and one of these resources is jade. But there is an…

DRC: Miners Establish Industry Body to Engage DRC Govt on Mining Code, Industry Issues

Aug 23, 2018 | Marleny Arnoldi, Mining Weekly

Mining companies active in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have established a new industry body, the Mining Promotion Initiative (MPI), to engage with government…

Conflict Minerals: Blood, Sweat, and Batteries

Aug 23, 2018 | Vivienne Walt and Sebastian Meyer, Fortune

That soaring appetite for cobalt is a product of today’s device-driven tech economy: The metal is a key component in the lithium-ion batteries that power…

Kuwait: Kuwait Aims to Settle Oil Field Disputes with Iraq, Saudi Arabia in Coming Weeks

Aug 22, 2018 | Herman Wang, S&P GLobal

Kuwaiti oil minister Bakheet al-Rashidi said Wednesday he expects to resolve two long-standing oil field disputes involving neighbors Iraq and Saudi in the coming weeks.…

Afghanistan: Water Shortages Weigh Heavy on Afghanistan

Aug 22, 2018 | Ezzatullah Mehrdad, Global Voices

Landlocked Afghanistan wasn't always short of water. Historically the valleys in this part of Asia were agricultural heartlands that hosted rushing rivers fed by abundant…

Colombia: Colombia to Consider Aiding Struggling Coffee Farmers

Aug 22, 2018 | Reuters

The Colombian government is examining possible help for coffee farmers hit by low international prices, the agriculture minister said on Wednesday, after repeated requests for…

Colombia: Drones Are Being Enlisted to Tackle Colombia’s Cocaine Farms

Aug 22, 2018 | Malek Murison, Drone Life

We’re not quite at the stage at which drones are taking an active role in day to day agriculture. Despite hardware releases from DJI and…

Syria: WASH and Shelter Program Manager

Aug 21, 2018 | Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40…

Consultant: Climate and Conflict Review

Aug 21, 2018 | Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a humanitarian and development organization working to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities. In…

Sierra Leone: Consultancy for Mano River Union Strategic Plan Revision in Biodiversity and Climate Change

Aug 21, 2018 | Tetra Tech

 Tetra Tech, Inc. provides consulting, engineering, program management, and construction management services that address fundamental needs for water, environment, infrastructure, resource management, and energy

Tetra Tech International…

Temporary Officer- Climate Change and Environment

Aug 21, 2018 | Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40…

Timor-Leste: Deputy Country Director

Aug 21, 2018 | Conservation International

Conservation International (CI) has been protecting nature for the benefit of all for over 30 years. Through science, policy, and partnerships, CI is helping build…

Israel: Resource Development Officer

Aug 21, 2018 | EcoPeace- Middle East

EcoPeace Middle East is a unique Israeli-Jordanian-Palestinian organization that advances cooperative efforts to protect our shared environment and create the conditions for sustainable development and…

Kenya and Madagascar: Regional Grants Manager

Aug 21, 2018 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is an international conservation NGO headquartered at the Bronx Zoo in New York City working to save wildlife and wild…