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The River Is Life

Jun 10, 2019 | 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…


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 | 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…


India/Pakistan: Climate Wars? Major India-Pakistan Conflict Predicted over Ownership of Water

Jun 9, 2019 | 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…


Venezuela: Venezuela's Mining Arc: A Legal Veneer for Armed Groups to Plunder

Jun 8, 2019 | 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…


Myanmar: World Oceans Day 2019: This Luxury Eco-Resort in Myanmar Is Cleaning up the Sea

Jun 8, 2019 | 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…


Women as Climate Action Ambassadors in Coastal Districts of India's Odisha State

Jun 7, 2019 | 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…


Sierra Leone: Academic Uses Film to Raise Plight of Sierra Leone Diamond Miners

Jun 7, 2019 | 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…


Groups Join Forces to Fight Military Toxic Exposure

Jun 7, 2019 | 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…


Women as Climate Action Ambassadors in Coastal Districts of India's Odisha State

Jun 7, 2019 | 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…


It's Time for the U.N. Security Council to Take on Climate Change

Jun 7, 2019 | 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…


Reducing Greenhouse Gases Is a Security Issue

Jun 7, 2019 | 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…


Iraq: Iraq Harvests Go up in Smoke, but Who Lit the Fires?

Jun 6, 2019 | Marwan Ibrahim with Ammar Karim, Agence France-Presse

Resurgent jihadists, ethnic land disputes or regular field burning? Iraq's northern farmlands are on fire, but the area's complex patchwork of grievances has made it…


Afghanistan: As Pressure for Afghan Peace Grows, Drug Threat Remains

Jun 6, 2019 | Reuters

As pressure grows for a political settlement to end 18 years of war in Afghanistan, the drug trade remains a major threat, leaving the country…


27 Women Leading the Charge to Protect Our Environment

Jun 6, 2019 | 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…


Why More Women Should Be Included in the Leadership of Virunga National Park

Jun 6, 2019 | 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…


Iraq: Gender and Protection Manager

Jun 6, 2019 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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…


Afghanistan: Glacial Melt Stokes Fears in Northeast Afghanistan

Jun 5, 2019 | Naimatullah Ahmadi and Abubakar Siddique, Gandhara

Melting glaciers in a remote Afghan province pose a major threat to the country’s water resources, climate, and economic prospects. Ziaul Haq Kamran heads Afghanistan’s…


Gaza: Collapsing Environmental State of Gaza Poses Threat to Israel's National Security, Report Warns

Jun 5, 2019 | Zafrir Rinat

Sewage dumping and air pollution could severely effect desalination plants and smog levels, experts say, warning none of Gaza's groundwater will be fit for human…


Syria: Vital Cropland Destroyed by Escalation of Syria's Violence - WFP

Jun 5, 2019 | Kuwait News Agency

The senior spokesperson of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Geneva Herve Verhoosel on Tuesday said, "The latest outbreak in violence in Idlib and…


South Sudan: South Sudan Sets up Transparent Mechanism to Boost Non-Oil Revenue

Jun 5, 2019 | Xinhua

South Sudan said Wednesday its efforts to boost non-oil revenue collection will be enhanced with the recently set up harmonized system code aimed at ensuring…


Climate Change: Global Peace and Stability Depend on Climate Security

Jun 5, 2019 | Government of the UK

Foreign and Commonwealth Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific, Mark Field, highlighted the importance of factoring the risks of climate change into all…


Syria: Syria Fighting Destroying Crops as Food Used as 'Weapon of War', UN Says

Jun 5, 2019 | Mina Aldroubi, National


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Jun 4, 2019

Curious to see how gender dynamics impact environmental peacebuilding? And vice versa? Focusing on the intersection of gender with natural resources, climate change and/or peace, we adopt a…


EnPAx Icon Preliminary Agenda for the 1st International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

Jun 4, 2019

We are delighted to share the preliminary agenda for the 1st International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding: Preliminary Agenda (May 30, 2019).

The conference will bring together researchers,…


South Sudan: Food Security and Livelihoods Coordinator

Jun 4, 2019 | Relief International

Relief International is a leading nonprofit organization working in 20 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. RI specializes in fragile settings, responding…


Sudan: Food Security & Livelihoods Manager

Jun 4, 2019 | United Methodist Committee on Relief

The United Methodist Committee on Relief is the global humanitarian aid and development organization of the United Methodist Church.

Purpose:

The Food Security and Livelihoods Manager plays…


Nigeria: Gender & Nutrition Officer

Jun 4, 2019 | Oxfam

 Oxfam is a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. Oxfam's…