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Women Hold the Key to Curbing Climate Change

Mar 8, 2019 | Katharine Wilkinson

In 1911, over one million people took to the streets of Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland for equal rights and suffrage. It was the first International Women's…

The Transformative Potential of Women in Water Resource Management

Mar 7, 2019 | Callum Clench

Water sits at the heart of our world and is a central tenet across the breadth of all the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Access…

Ghana's Queen Fishmongers: Balancing Gender for Sustainable Fisheries

Mar 7, 2019 | Environmental Justice Foundation Staff

When we think about fishing, we typically conjure a very distinct image: boats at sea, manned. But that is only half the story, as the…

Afghanistan: Improving Livelihoods of Afghan Women through Credit Shura

Mar 7, 2019 | Wadsam

One of the most difficult challenges for female farmers and women who operate agriculture-related businesses in Afghanistan is access to credit. In addition, many women…

Myanmar: Land Seizures, Protests, and Arrests in Myanmar

Mar 7, 2019 | Maximillian Mørch, Diplomat

Land confiscation is rife in Myanmar. Confiscation of land for plantations, Special Economic Zones, development projects or for use by the military or other armed…

China/Vietnam/South China Sea: Chinese Ship Sinks Vietnamese Fishing Boat off Paracel Islands

Mar 7, 2019 | Viet Tuan, VnExpress

A Chinese vessel rammed and sank a Vietnamese fishing boat off the central coast Wednesday, but its five-member crew was rescued unscathed. The boat was…

Myanmar: Villagers Say Banana Business Threatens Their Way of Life

Mar 7, 2019 | Myanmar Times

Villagers and farmers protesting against the practices of a nearby banana plantation held a press conference at Mandalay monastery in Myitkyina township of Kachin State…

Congo: 'We Are Fighters, Too'

Mar 7, 2019 | Allison Shelley

Since the perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide fled into eastern Congo, the region has been consumed by war. Armed groups proliferated, some from Rwanda…

Armenia: "Armenia Has To Stop Using Water As a Political Tool Against Azerbaijan"-Anastasia Lavrina

Mar 7, 2019

During the 40th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, assistant to President of the International Eurasian Press Fund (IEPF), political analyst Anastasia…

Women Underrepresented in Formal Peace Process, Study Finds

Mar 7, 2019 | Nyein Nyein

YANGON—More than 670 women are contributing to peace building in Myanmar, representing nearly 400 organizations, but only about one quarter of them serve as delegates…

Governing the Ayeyarwady

Mar 6, 2019 | Joern Kristensen

The continuing conundrum over Myitsone, concern among farmers over river bank erosion in the dry zone and the delta and reports of declining riverine resources…

Afghanistan: 'Chilling Reality': Afghanistan Suffers Worst Floods in Seven Years

Mar 6, 2019 | Haroon Janjua and Karen McVeigh, Guardian

Afghanistan has been hit with the worst flooding in seven years, with 20 dead, thousands of homes swept away and many families, already displaced by…

Sahel: Persistent Needs in Sahel, Conflict Driving Massive Displacement

Mar 6, 2019 | UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, World Food Programme, and Save the Children

Top United Nations and non-governmental aid officials today sounded the alarm over rising conflict and insecurity that have accelerated forced displacement across the Sahel, where…

Afghanistan: USAID Improves Livelihoods for Afghan Women through Credit Shura

Mar 6, 2019 | ReliefWeb

Balkh, Afghanistan – One of the most difficult challenges for female farmers and women who operate agriculture-related businesses in Afghanistan is access to credit. In…

Iraq: After IS, Mosul Tackles another Terror: Super-Resistant Bacteria

Mar 6, 2019 | Maya Gebeily, Agence France-Presse

Doctors around the globe are sounding the alarm over bacterial infections immune to modern medicine, but their prevalence in Mosul -- where thousands of patients…

A History of U.S. Defense, Intelligence and Security Assessments of Climate Change

Mar 5, 2019 | Peter H. Gleick

In March 2019, the Trump Administration announced they were considering creating an ad hoc White House panel to dispute a long-series of national assessments of…

'Greening the Desert': What Drives Militants' Environmentalism?

Mar 5, 2019 | Austin Bodetti, New Arab

Though al-Qaeda would appear to have little in common with the likes of the Earth Liberation Army and the Earth Liberation Front, it apparently shares…

Myanmar: Mandalay Starts to Streamline Land Records

Mar 5, 2019 | Phyo Wai Kyaw, Myanmar Times

The Mandalay City Development Committee (MCDC) has begun streamlining land records such as maps, surveys and title deeds, to be in line with rules and…

Myanmar: Naga Women in Myanmar Dream of Inheriting Land

Mar 5, 2019 | Morung Express

In November 2014, the Conference of Naga Nationals adopted a resolution that committed the indigenous Naga people in Myanmar to the Convention on the Elimination…

South Sudan: UN Accuses Oil Firms of Fuelling Armed Conflict in South Sudan

Mar 5, 2019 | Kevin J. Kelley, East African

Transnational oil-production companies controlled by Asian interests have been complicit in South Sudan government military offensives that involved killings of civilians. "There has been a…

Iraq: CPECC Agrees to Build Natural Gas Liquids Plant in Iraq

Mar 5, 2019 | Michael Marray, Asset

China Petroleum Engineering and Construction Corporation (CPECC) and Basra Gas Company (BGC) have signed a contract to build a natural gas liquids (NGL) plant in…

Climate Change: The Urgency of Tackling Climate-Related Security Risk in Africa

Mar 4, 2019 | KAD Africana

The African Union Peace and Security Council has been commended for dedicating its 828th session to climate change. During an open session on the theme:…

Myanmar: Myanmar ups Efforts to Save Marine, Wildlife

Mar 4, 2019 | Myanmar Times

“Life below water: for people and planet” was the theme of World Wildlife Day 2019, which was celebrated on Sunday to raise awareness about the world’s…

DRC: DRC President, Felix Tshisekedi, Ambiguous on Application of New Mining Code

Mar 4, 2019 | Miningmx

Felix Tshisekedi, the newly elected president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), gave mixed messages on how he would implement a recently promulgated mining…

Why Do People in Resource-Rich Iraq Protest?

Mar 3, 2019 | Nazli Tarzi

There appears to be little agreement among spectators over the motives and demands driving Iraq’s protest movement, which has grown in since late 2011. What…

Afghanistan: Heavy Rains, Floods Kill 20 Afghans

Mar 3, 2019 | DTN Progressive Farmer

A UN humanitarian agency says at least 20 people died as heavy rains and flooding over the past few days swept away their homes and…

Iraq: Iraq State Company Denies Shiite Militia Smuggling Mosul Oil

Mar 2, 2019 | Rudaw

Iraq’s North Oil Company (NOC) denied on Sunday that Shiite militia groups were smuggling oil from Nineveh to Syria and Iran, saying that the company…

Guatemala: Women Land Defenders Face 'Extreme Criminalisation', Added Risks

Mar 2, 2019 | Anna-Cat Brigida

El Estor, Guatemala - Since her teen years, Maria Magdalena Cuc Choc, now 39, has defended the natural resources of El Estor, a predominantly Mayan…

New Study on Infrastructure Damage in Gaza and the West Bank

Mar 1, 2019 | Leonie Nimmo

The targeting of water, energy, and agricultural infrastructure has created vulnerability and undermined livelihoods in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to a study…

In Search of Environmental Security at UNEA-4

Mar 1, 2019 | Doug Weir

The UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), which aims to be the leading body for the environment in the UN system, was established in 2012 by converting…