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Myanmar: Myanmar's Opium Farmers Cling on to Lucrative Crop [Photos]
Feb 4, 2019
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Agence France-Presse
Fields of purple opium poppy stretch across the pastures and peaks of mountainous eastern Myanmar, with many farmers reluctant to give up the profitable cash…
Colombia: Colombia - The Wetlands of Rio Magdalena under Threat [Video]
Feb 4, 2019
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Deutsche Welle
In the rainy season, the Rio Magdalena in Colombia creates a vast area of wetlands. But now its flood plains are threatened by climate change,…
Afghanistan: BAZAR: Afghanistan’s EITI Membership Suspended [Video]
Feb 3, 2019
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TOLOnews
Integrity Watch Afghanistan raised concern over Afghanistan’s suspension as a member of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and said this move will have a negative…
Liberia: NGO Coalition Calls on the Gov’t to Investigate ‘Illegal logging, Consistent Noncompliance by Delta Timber Company in Sinoe’
Feb 3, 2019
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FrontPage Africa
The NGO Coalition of Liberia (NCL) is calling on the Liberian government to investigate allegations of illegal logging and consistent non-compliance to the social agreement…
Intern—Climate Change and Risk Program
Feb 1, 2019
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an international institute based in Sweden, dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in…
Myanmar: Let the Sunshine in
Feb 1, 2019
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Alec Wilmot, Myanmar Times
The island Pataw Pahtet, just north west of Myeik City, is a bustling industrial shipyard surrounded by warehouses, cold storage facilities and crab farms. Go…
Liberia: Justice Seen as Solution for Post-War Land Conflict in Nimba
Feb 1, 2019
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Joaquin M. Sendolo, Daily Observer
Conflicts over land have long plagued Nimba County but the 14-year-civil war made the problem much worse. Now, 15 years from the end of the…
Liberia: Government to Arm Rangers
Feb 1, 2019
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Emmanuel Mondaye and Jonathan Browne, New Dawn
The Management of the Forestry Development Authority is preparing to arm 45 forest rangers to protect the forest of Liberia from poachers and intruders. Deputy…
Strengthening Women's Voices in Land Decisions: What Works?
Jan 31, 2019
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Philippine Sutz
Since the mid 2000s, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced a land rush driven by factors such as rising commercial agriculture, mineral extraction and large infrastructure projects.…
Climate Change: UNSC Debates Climate Change Impact on Peace, Security and Development
Jan 31, 2019
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Catherine Benson Wahlén, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Speakers warned the UN Security Council (UNSC) of increasing threats to peace, security and development as a result of climate change during a debate on…
Myanmar: Karen Minority Urges 'Respect' in Myanmar Peace Park Initiative
Jan 30, 2019
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Sally Kantar, Al Jazeera
With a Myanmar government-backed peace process in deadlock, ethnic Karen political leaders and activists have declared thousands of square kilometers of land a "peace park"…
Afghanistan: Peace in Afghanistan? Maybe—but a Minerals Rush Is Already Underway
Jan 30, 2019
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Antony Lowenstein, Nation
The Afghan war is the addiction that Washington can’t quit. The longest war in US history, it’s a conflict that has generally fallen out of…
Afghanistan: 2 in 3 Afghan Men Think Women Have Too Many Rights
Jan 30, 2019
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Thomson Reuters Foundation
Afghan men strongly oppose giving women more freedom — 2 in 3 think they have too much already — and young men are even more reluctant than…
Call for Engaged Listeners to Attend an International Workshop on "Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflict – Beyond the ILC"
Jan 29, 2019
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Institute for International Affairs of the University of Hamburg School of Law and Faculty of Law of Lund University
The workshop is organized by the Institute for International Affairs of the University of Hamburg School of Law and Faculty of Law of Lund…
Anticipatory Intelligence: Climate Change in the National Intelligence Strategy
Jan 29, 2019
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Marisol Maddox
On January 22, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Daniel R. Coats released the National Intelligence Strategy (NIS) for 2019, which represents a departure from the…
Liberia: NGO Calls for Regulator of Agriculture Concessions
Jan 29, 2019
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FrontPage Africa
Save My Future Foundation (SAMFU), a local nongovernmental organization, is calling for a separate regulator for large-scale concessions in Liberia it says will guarantee the…
Michael Bothe
Professor Emeritus
J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
Germany
Jan 29, 2019
Michael Bothe is Professor Emeritus of Public Law at the J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. Throughout his career, he has worked on questions of international and…
Canada Research Chair in Global Policy
Jan 28, 2019
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University of British Columbia
The School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver campus, invites applications for the position of Canada Research Chair (Tier 2)…
Iraq: WASH Technical Coordinator
Jan 28, 2019
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ACTED
Since 1993, as an international non-governmental organization, ACTED has been committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity,…
Afghanistan: Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene Coordinator
Jan 28, 2019
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Action Contre la Faim France
Action Against Hunger (or Action Contre La Faim (ACF) in French) is a global humanitarian organization which originated in France and is committed to ending…
Iraq: WASH Team Leader
Jan 28, 2019
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Oxfam
Oxfam's programmes address the structural causes of poverty and related injustice and work primarily through local accountable organizations, seeking to enhance their effectiveness. Oxfam's stated…
Development of a Southern Africa Development Community - Regional Migration Crisis Action Plan (SADC RMCAP)
Jan 28, 2019
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International Organization for Migration
BACKGROUND
Established in 1951, IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners.
IOM works to…
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Salonga Program Assistant
Jan 28, 2019
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World Wide Fund for Nature
I. Context and Background
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has embarked on ambitious, field-based conservation programs across the Congo Basin. In the Democratic Republic…
No Easy Path for Venezuela's Oil in the Struggle for a Transition in Power
Jan 28, 2019
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Amy Mysers Jaffe
Given the news that the United States has recognized the speaker of the democratically elected National Assembly Juan Guaido as interim President of Venezuela in…
Climate Change: Nations Recognize Warming as Threat to Peace and Security
Jan 28, 2019
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Jean Chemnick, E&E News
There's a growing global consensus that climate change is a threat to peace and security that deserves the same kind of attention afforded to terrorism…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Threat of Renewed Conflict as Tensions Rise over Kirkuk
Jan 28, 2019
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Middle East Monitor
Tension between the Iraqi political circles including the central government in Baghdad, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Iraqi Turkmen are threatening renewed conflict in…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Tensions Rekindle in Iraq’s Oil-Rich Kirkuk
Jan 27, 2019
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Azhar Al-Rubaie and Yousif Raheem, Arab Weekly
Tensions have resurfaced in the oil-rich, multi-ethnic Iraqi province of Kirkuk after a Kurdish party raised the flag of the country’s autonomous Kurdistan region over…
Climate Change: UN Security Council Divided on Climate-Security Link
Jan 26, 2019
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Agence France-Presse
Russia and the US resisted on Friday efforts by the UN Security Council to take a tougher stand on climate change -- a day after…
Remarks to the Security Council (UNDP)
Jan 25, 2019
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Achim Steiner
Open debate on the maintenance of international peace and security: addressing the impacts of climate-related disasters on international peace and security.
Conflict Minerals: Former Barrick CIO Michelle Ash to Join Blockchain Start-up
Jan 25, 2019
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Kaaria Quash, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
Former Barrick chief innovation officer Michelle Ash joined the advisory board of Berlin-based blockchain start-up Minespider. Minespider is aiming to create a public blockchain platform…