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Ethiopia: Emergency Food Security and Vulnerable Livelihood Coordinator
Mar 23, 2017
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Oxfam
Oxfam has been working in Ethiopia since 1974, devoted to empowering people against poverty. In 2015-16, the organisation consolidated its efforts to meet the needs…
Chad: Consultant International - Elaboration d'un Programme Pays
Mar 23, 2017
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Centre de Suivi Ecologique
Dans le cadre du partenariat qui le lie au Fonds Vert Climat, (FVC), le Tchad a choisi le Ministère de l’Environnement et de la Pêche…
Colombia: Senior Volunteer in Livelihoods
Mar 23, 2017
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EU Aid Volunteers
The initiative focuses on strengthening the European Union's capacity to deliver needs-based humanitarian aid by providing professional support through the deployment of trained volunteers to…
Sudan: Project Managers
Mar 23, 2017
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Cooperazione Internazionale
COOPI Cooperazione Internazionale is a humanitarian, non-confessional and independent organization founded in 1965 in Milan, Italy. For more than 50 years we have been dedicated…
Colombia: Senior Volunteer Climate Change Adaptation and Ecosystem-based Management
Mar 23, 2017
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EU Aid Volunteers
In the context of this vacancy, the EU Aid Volunteers initiative provides opportunities to European citizens and long-term residents, from a wide range of backgrounds…
Turkey: Chief of Party, Syria Sustainable Opportunities for Livelihoods Agricultural Recovery
Mar 23, 2017
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Global Communities
Global Communities is an international non-profit organization that works closely with communities worldwide to bring about sustainable changes that improve the lives and livelihoods of…
Gaza/Palestine: In War-Scarred Gaza, Water Pollution behind Health Woes
Mar 23, 2017
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Sakher Abou El Oun, Agence France-Presse
More and more Gazans are falling ill from their drinking water, highlighting the humanitarian issues facing the Palestinian enclave that the UN says could become…
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Precious Minerals – Public Trust and Government Openness
Mar 23, 2017
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Abdul Rashid Thomas, Sierra Leone Telegraph
The recent finding of Sierra Leone’s second largest diamond in the Kono district by pastor Emmanuel Momoh and the involvement of the Koroma government,…
Conflict Minerals: EU Parliament Gives Green Light to Conflict Mineral Regulation
Mar 23, 2017
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International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
The European Parliament signed off last week on a proposal aimed at tackling conflict minerals trade, bringing the proposed measure closer to becoming law. The…
China/South China Sea: How a Chinese Fishing Fleet Creates Facts on the Water
Mar 23, 2017
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Economist
On a past visit to the little fishing port of Tanmen, on the island-province of Hainan in southern China, pigs were being driven onto the…
Colombia: UN Environment Will Support Environmental Recovery and Peacebuilding for Post-Conflict Development in Colombia
Mar 23, 2017
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UNEP
UN Environment will assist Colombia with overcoming the environmental degradation legacy of the internal conflict which lasted for more than 50 years, especially in remote…
Call for Abstracts: A Special Issue of Journal of Hydrology
Mar 22, 2017
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UNESCO International Centre for Water Conservation
Approximately 2 billion people depend on groundwater, sourced from over 300 transboundary aquifer systems. Furthermore about 286 river basins cross the political boundaries of two…
Call for Nominations/Expressions of Interest for Chair(s) of the Theme on Environmental Peacebuilding, Security and Conflict Resolution
Mar 22, 2017
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IUCN Commission on Environment, Economics, and Social Policy
The Chair of CEESP seeks nominations/expressions of interest for the position of Chair(s) on the Theme on Environmental Peacebuilding, Security and Conflict Resolution, if two…
Hydropower Threatens Peace in Myanmar -- But It Doesn't Have To
Mar 22, 2017
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Noah Kittner and Kensuke Yamaguchi
Myanmar faces a critical moment for investment decision-making. The Barack Obama administration's move to lift sanctions on the Southeast Asian country has opened up new…
Advancing U.S. Prosperity and Security in a Thirsty World
Mar 22, 2017
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Jane Harman and Carter Roberts
The waters of Lake Chad sustain 70 million people in four countries. Beginning in the 1970s, the 25,000-square-kilometer lake began shrinking due to excessive drawdown…
European Conflict Minerals Regulation — Details on What EU Importers Must Do
Mar 22, 2017
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Dynda A. Thomas and Christina Economides
The proposed European Union conflict minerals regulation has almost reached the last step before becoming an official EU regulation. On March 16, 2017, the European…
Afghanistan: Dam Project Promises Water – but Also Conflict – for Dusty Afghan Border Lands
Mar 22, 2017
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Sune Engel Rasmussen, Guardian
The Afghan government plans to construct a dam to boost agriculture and livelihoods in a region where one of the main paths to profit is…
Could Conservation Provide Ground for Peace in Conflict Zones?
Mar 22, 2017
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Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Christian Science Monitor
"Ecological problems know no boundaries," says Alexandre Roulin, a biologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and first author on a paper published Wednesday…
South Sudan: South Sudan Threatens to Terminate Oil Exploration Contracts
Mar 22, 2017
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Sudan Tribune
South Sudan has threatened to terminate contacts awarded to oil exploration companies should they fail to start surveys by the end of April. Ezekiel Lol…
Iraq/Syria: ISIS is Going Scorched Earth as it Loses Ground in Iraq and Syria
Mar 22, 2017
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Ali Abdelaty, Reuters
As Islamic State loses ground in Iraq and Syria, the Sunni militant group which once held territory amounting to a third of those countries is…
Colombia: Colombia to Implement Almeria's Agricultural Model in ex-FARC Territory
Mar 22, 2017
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Fresh Plaza
The peace agreement signed by the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has liberated 18 million hectares previously under guerrilla control. …
Industry Divided Over Future of US Conflict Minerals Rule
Mar 21, 2017
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Kelly Franklin
Companies and industries affected by the US conflict minerals rule have different views on whether the conflict minerals reporting rule should be maintained, modified or…
Water Wars: Water Wars? Experts Urge Rethinking Our Relationship with Water
Mar 21, 2017
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teleSUR
As the world marks the World Water Day, one cannot help but recall that the United Nations has already warned that water shortages will hit…
South Sudan: South Sudan and Equatorial Guinea Partner on Oil and Gas
Mar 21, 2017
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Sudan Tribune
South Sudan and Equatorial Guinea announced an historic partnership today in Juba, setting out the terms for a strong bilateral relationship between the African oil…
Myanmar: China-backed Dam Project May Threaten Myanmar Wildlife Sanctuary
Mar 21, 2017
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Voice of America
Environmental activists say plans for a large dam threaten wildlife sanctuaries in Myanmar’s northern Karen state. China would finance the proposed Hatgyi dam on Southeast…
Colombia: Colombian Coffee Inspires Banana Growers to Reclaim Land Lost to Violence
Mar 21, 2017
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AL DÍA News
Growing along with the bunches of bananas in the plantations of Uraba in northwestern Colombia are the hopes of a region that is working to…
Afghanistan’s Water Plans Complicated by Worried Neighbors
Mar 20, 2017
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Elizabeth B. Hessami
More than 40 years ago, the Soviet Union attempted to harness hydropower to modernize Afghanistan. Between 1960 and 1968, they poured money and technical knowledge…
DRC: Congo Sees Trump Roll-Back of Dodd-Frank Stoking Insecurity
Mar 20, 2017
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Thomas Wilson, Bloomberg
The Democratic Republic of Congo warned that proposals by the Trump administration to rollback laws on so-called conflict minerals from central Africa risks stoking violence…
Colombia: Land Solutions for Climate Displacement Works in Colombia: Government-Supported Gramalote Relocation Moves Ahead
Mar 20, 2017
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Displacement Solutions
On 11 March 2017, a group of 54 families moved in the newly built town of Gramalote, Colombia some seven years after the decimation of the town…
Colombia: Into the Green Land: Emerald Mining in Colombia
Mar 20, 2017
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Javier Corso, Al Jazeera
The struggle over land is Colombia's oldest conflict. Although Colombian environmental laws now prohibit the dumping of leftover grit and rocks from mining excavation, some…