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Myanmar: Ministry Urges Farmers to Save Water

Sep 10, 2019 | Htoo Thant, Myanmar Times

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation has urged farmers to use water more efficiently as there is less water behind the country’s more than 300…

Making Their Voices Count: The African Women Protecting Their Land Rights

Sep 10, 2019 | Philippine Sutz

Ashura Juma Mnaula lives in the village of Marumbo in Tanzania. The divorced 38-year-old has three children and, like many women in her community, looks…

Agenda for First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding Now Available Online – Register NOW While There Is Still Space!

Sep 10, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The working agenda for the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding can now be accessed on the conference platform. Please visit https://environmentalpeacebuilding.org/2019-conference/agenda-2/ to view the…

Hotel Reservations for the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding (Reduced Rates While Availability Lasts)

Sep 10, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuiding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association has reserved a block of 25 guest rooms at Hotel Irvine for the First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding. The reduced…

To Build Peace, Boost the Women Who Lead the Movements

Sep 10, 2019 | James Rupert

mages of this year’s grassroots movements for social and political change—such as the ouster of authoritarian rulers in Sudan and Algeria—reiterate that women worldwide are…

Joining Forces to Empower Women in Senegal

Sep 9, 2019 | Maggie May

Where are the effects of climate change felt the strongest? 

West Africa shoulders some of the heaviest impacts created by climate change, particularly in communities where…

How Jordan's Climate and Water Crisis Threatens its Fragile Peace

Sep 9, 2019 | Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia

For years, security service recruitment has masked climate instability in rural Jordan. Now that strategy is breaking down and no one knows what will take…

CoP: Only 25% Nations Include Gender Discussions in Land Degradation Targets

Sep 9, 2019 | Shagun Kapil

Only around 20 of more than 80 countries have included discussions on the role of gender and women in their targets to halt land degradation…

Climate Change: A Pacific Perspective on Climate Security Risks and the UN Security Council

Sep 9, 2019 | International Peace Institute, Anna Maria Link

As the debate over climate-related security risks grows, many Pacific Island states are calling for more action by the international community to better address the…

Colombia: Peace with Nature: Helping Former Colombian Guerrilla Fighters to Become Citizen Scientists

Sep 9, 2019 | Jaime Gongora and Federica Di Palma, The Conversation

Colombia is the second most biodiverse country in the world with more than 56,000 recorded species, some 9,000 of which are unique. However protecting and…

Consultant - Gender Equality Specialist

Sep 9, 2019 | CowaterSogema

Gender Equality Specialist (part-time consultant)

About the project

CowaterSogema International Inc. is recruiting for an upcoming project that aims to enhance the social and economic well-being of…

USPSC Support Relief Group (SRG) Livestock and Animal Health Specialist (Multiple Positions)

Sep 9, 2019 | US Agency for International Development

The United States Government (USG), represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), is seeking applications from…

Jordan: Consultancy for Strategic Planning Support

Sep 9, 2019 | Action Contre la Faim France

Action Against Hunger has been operational in Jordan since 2013, delivering Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH), Mental Health, and food security and livelihoods (FSL) programmes—in…

DRC: WASH Project Manager

Sep 9, 2019 | Medair

Medair is a humanitarian organisation inspired by Christian faith to relieve human suffering in some of the world’s most remote and devastated places. Medair provides emergency…

Nigeria: WANEP to Implement Peace Projects in Six States to Check Rising Conflicts

Sep 8, 2019 | Sun News

The West Africa Network for Peace building (WANEP)-Nigeria, has expressed concerns over the escalation of violent conflicts across the country, which has resulted in wanton…

Myanmar: Farmers Protest over Farmland Compensation for Oil Exploration

Sep 7, 2019 | Tin Shwe, Mizzima

Farmers in the Mann oilfield area in Minbu Township, Magway Region staged a protest yesterday over alleged failures by the authorities in correctly offering compensation…

Afghanistan: Afghanistan Seeking to Promote Ancient Woodcarving Craft

Sep 6, 2019 | Rohullah Anwari and Abubakar Siddique, Gandhara

In pre-Islamic Nuristan, woodcarving held a symbolic significance, but the craftsmen came from Bari, a lower caste who were not considered members of Nuristan’s hierarchical…

Nigeria: WANEP Restates Inclusive Peacebuilding Approach

Sep 6, 2019 | Ene Osang, Blueprint

The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding Nigeria (WANEP) has reiterated the call for an inclusive approach to peacebuilding, saying this will prevent violence, promote peaceful…

Syria: Food Aid Reaches Syria's Rukban Camp for First Time in Seven Months

Sep 6, 2019 | Madeline Edwards, Middle East Eye

For the first time in seven months, thousands of displaced Syrians in a desolate camp on the Syrian-Jordanian border are receiving organised supplies of food…

Syria: Syria's Wheat Crop almost Doubles but Food Security Still a Challenge: UN

Sep 5, 2019 | Maha El Dahan, Reuters

Syria’s wheat and barley crops this year improved helped by favorable rainfall and better overall security but food security remains a challenge, a joint report…

If Women, Peace and Security Agenda Is to Be More Than Words, Congress Must Stay Engaged

Sep 4, 2019 | Sahana Dharmapuri and Hans Hogrefe

On paper, proponents of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the U.S. have a lot to celebrate. Twenty years after the international community…

Of Food, War and Ecology

Sep 4, 2019 | Julian Cribb

The most destructive implement on the Planet, without a doubt, is the human jawbone.  Every year, in the course of wolfing through 8.5 trillion meals,…

Call for Applications for the 2019 Climate Security Fellowship Program

Sep 3, 2019 | Center for Climate and Security

The Climate and Security Advisory Group (CSAG) is pleased to announce a call for applications for its 2019 Climate Security Fellowship Program, a collaborative effort of…

Iraq/Islamic State: ISIS Rigs Cows with Explosives in Failed Attack on Iraqi Forces

Sep 3, 2019 | Richard Hall, Independent

Isis militants reportedly rigged cows with explosives in an attack on Iraqi security forces, in what is thought to be the first time the group…

Liberia: 2,400 Affected Communities to Protest over US$3 Million Land Rental Arrears

Sep 3, 2019 | Leroy M. Sonpon, III, Observer

The leadership of the NUCFDC on behalf of the 24,000 affected communities petitioned the lawmakers. Two thousand four hundred affected communities of the 23 Community…

Liberia: US$150M Earmarked for Forest Sector

Sep 3, 2019 | Ishmael F. Menkor, Observer

About US$150 million has been earmarked by the Norwegian Government as funds to Liberia to REDD+ for the implementation of the Liberian Forest Sector. According…

Liberia: Traditional Chiefs Want More Land Awareness Trainings

Sep 3, 2019 | Marcus Malayea, Observer

Participants and traditional chiefs, who attended the just-ended three-day ‘intensive’ workshop creating awareness on “public land and its inventory” in Gbarnga Bong County have appealed…

Liberia: Minister Sirleaf Resolves Conflicts in Maryland and Grand Kru Counties

Sep 2, 2019 | FrontPage Africa

Calm has returned to concession districts in two southeastern counties as the Minister of Internal Affairs, Honorable Varney A. Sirleaf over the weekend resolved two…

East and Southern Africa: Climate Change Dissproportionately Affects Women and Young Girls - and Here's Why

Sep 2, 2019 | Derick Nyasulu, UNFPA

“It is essential that we understand the relationship between the effects of climate change and the persistence of violence against women,” she said.

Unless recurrent climate-related…

Myanmar: Mine Runoff Adds to Controversy over Chinese-backed Nickel Mine in Myanmar

Aug 30, 2019 | Radio Free Asia

The Chinese-backed operators of a controversial nickel mine embroiled in a longstanding dispute with villagers in northwestern Myanmar’s Sagaing region over accusations of shortchanging them…