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Timor-Leste: As Maritime Agreement with Australia Dissolves, Timor-Leste Left Exposed
Apr 13, 2017
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Maciej Heyman, MilTech
On 10 April this year, the 2006 Certain Maritime Agreement on the Timor Sea (CMATS) was terminated. CMATS was an agreement between Australia and Timor-Leste…
Conflict Minerals: Apple, Intel Carry on as SEC Relaxes Conflict Minerals Scrutiny
Apr 13, 2017
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Andrea Vittorio, Securities Law Daily
Relaxed regulatory scrutiny won’t stop companies like Apple Inc. and Intel Corp. from reporting as usual next month about efforts to keep minerals that fund…
China/Myanmar: New Myanmar Oil Pipeline Bolsters China's Energy Security
Apr 13, 2017
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Wataru Kodaka and Yuichi Nitta, Nikkei
The opening of an oil pipeline through Myanmar is a big step forward for China's energy security, reducing the major importer's reliance on shipments through waters where the…
Landmines: Glowing Bacteria Offer Hope for Safe Detection of 100m Landmines
Apr 13, 2017
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Peter Beaumont, Guardian
A team of researchers at an Israeli university has successfully tested a technology using fluorescent bacteria and lasers that could become a safer system for…
Water and the Rise of Insurgencies in the “Arc of Instability”
Apr 12, 2017
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Azua (Zizhan) Luo
Water scarcity has contributed to an “arc of instability” characterized by conflict and displacement that stretches from West Africa to the Middle East, said a…
Enough Project Responds with Serious Concerns about SEC Statements on Conflict Minerals
Apr 12, 2017
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Enough Project
The Enough Project takes serious issue with recent statements by Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Acting Chairman Michael Piwowar and the SEC Division of Corporate Finance regarding the…
Myanmar: Rescuing Myanmar’s Farmers from the Debt Trap
Apr 12, 2017
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Economist
Many farmers borrow to cover planting costs, buy equipment or purchase land, and repay after the harvest. Under the junta that isolated Myanmar for decades,…
Afghanistan: Strongmen, Locals Cutting down Kunduz Forests
Apr 12, 2017
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Bashir Ahmad Naadim, Pajhwok Afghan News
Residents and officials say they are worried about illegal cutting down of forest trees in northern Kunduz province, asking the government to stop the practice.…
Reprehensible SEC Decision on Conflict Minerals Rule Undermines Global Efforts to Source Minerals Responsibly
Apr 11, 2017
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Global Witness
According to Global Witness, SEC Acting Chairman Michael Piwowar and the SEC Division of Corporation Finance’s recent actions questioning enforcement of an important aspect of…
Nigeria: Strategic Resilience Assessment Manager
Apr 10, 2017
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by building secure, productive and just communities. Mercy Corps has been present in Nigeria since 2012,…
Afghanistan: Consultance for Territorial Diagnosis
Apr 10, 2017
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MADERA and Solidarités International
The French Agency for Development (AFD) has granted funding to a consortium of three French NGOs to implement a three-year rural development programme in the Central Highlands of…
Afghanistan: Advisor - Watershed Management
Apr 10, 2017
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Concern Worldwide
Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in…
Cameroon: Un(e) Responsable Technique WASH à Batouri
Apr 10, 2017
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Première Urgence Internationale
Première Urgence Internationale est une Organisation Non Gouvernementale de solidarité internationale, à but non lucratif, apolitique et laïque. L’ensemble de ses personnels se mobilise au quotidien…
Sierra Leone: National Project Manager
Apr 10, 2017
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UNDP
The Government of Sierra Leone through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) received a grant from…
Conflict Minerals Report No Longer Required? Wait — Not So Fast
Apr 10, 2017
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Dynda A. Thomas
Those hoping for updated SEC guidance that would relieve or reduce companies’ conflict minerals diligence and disclosure obligations for calendar year 2016 got only a…
Liberia: Impact Assessment Concluded for 120MW Hydro Project
Apr 10, 2017
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ESI Africa
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded a meeting with residents of Grand Bassa and Bong Counties on the environmental and social impact of…
Afghanistan: Afghan Demining Program under Threat over Budget Deficit
Apr 10, 2017
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Gulabudin Ghubar, TOLOnews
Wais Ahmad Barmak, Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, on Monday said that the demining program in Afghanistan is under threat following the drop in…
Iraq: Land Grabs in Iraq
Apr 10, 2017
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Vera Mironova and Mohammed Hussein, Foreign Affairs
With the fall of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) seemingly imminent, nearly every Iraqi political group and its associated militia have been rushing…
China/Myanmar: China Says Accord Reached at Last with Myanmar on Oil Pipeline
Apr 10, 2017
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Christian Shepherd, Reuters
China and Myanmar have reached an agreement on an oil pipeline between the neighbouring countries after almost a decade of talks, with the project due…
Afghanistan: Continued Militancy, Poverty Push Afghan Farmers to Grow Poppy
Apr 9, 2017
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Abdul Haleem and Abdul Aziz Safdari, XInhua
A former stronghold of Taliban and the hotbed of the armed militants currently, the troubled Helmand province been the scene of fierce fighting between government…
Liberia: Liberia, EU Sign Agreement to Strengthen Forestry Sector
Apr 9, 2017
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FrontPageAfrica
The agreement was signed by Ambassador Tina Intelmann, Head of the European Union delegation and Sister Mary Laurene Browne, Chair of the Board of Directors…
Ending Wildlife Trafficking Will Help The Fight against Terrorism
Apr 8, 2017
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Emma O’Malley
Illegal wildlife trafficking is one of the lowest profile illegal activities, but is in fact the fourth-largest transnational crime in the world, averaging between $7.8-10 billion in sales…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Only 25 Are Kurds out of 1000 Employed by Baghdad in Kirkuk Oil Fields, Official
Apr 8, 2017
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Rudaw
Of the nearly 1,000 people who were recently employed by the Iraqi North Oil Company (NOC) in Kirkuk, only 25 are Kurdish, displaying Baghdad’s increasing…
Liberia: Green Advocates Train Liberian Communities on Alternative Recourse Mechanism
Apr 8, 2017
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FrontPageAfrica
Local communities have protested the presence of large scale mining and agricultural companies like Golden Veroleum Liberia, Sime Darby and ArcelorMittal Liberia in Nimba County…
Colombia's Fracking Boom Risks Deepening Environmental Conflicts
Apr 7, 2017
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Sebastian Ordoñez Muñoz
A multinational fracking boom has begun in Colombia. New concessions threaten the water supply to the capital city of Bogota.
Information from Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency shows…
Why IR Needs the Environment and the Environment Needs IR
Apr 7, 2017
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Jessica F. Green and Thomas N. Hale
The state of the global environment is terrible—and deteriorating. The globalization of industrial production and the consumptive habits of 7 billion people have created the…
Myanmar: Yangon Pilot Project Slashes Water Losses, Says Manila Company
Apr 7, 2017
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Frontier Myanmar
A Philippine company says it has slashed water system losses in two Yangon townships under a pilot project conducted in partnership with the Yangon City…
Successful Colombian Rainforest Project Exposes Problems with Carbon Emissions Trading
Apr 6, 2017
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Bart Crezee
The Chocó-Darién Conservation Corridor, as the community’s REDD+ project is called, is the first REDD+ project to be certified in Colombia. In 2012 it was…
"Disaster Foretold" Leaves Hundreds Dead in Colombia, Many of Them Kids
Apr 6, 2017
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Associated Press
People were caught off guard when a devastating flash flood surged through a small city in southern Colombia, but not everyone was surprised. Government agencies, land use…
How Advocacy Gave Trump Ammunition on Conflict-Free Minerals
Apr 6, 2017
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Emmanuel Freudenthal
US President Donald Trump has signalled his intention to suspend the world’s first conflict-free minerals law, much to the consternation of advocacy groups and others…