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Nepal: Chief of Party
Nov 21, 2016
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Chemonics
Chemonics seeks a chief of party for the five-year USAID/Nepal Feed the Future Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture and Nutrition II Project (KISAN II). KISAN II…
Regional Director, Sahel and West Africa
Nov 21, 2016
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Mines Advisory Group
Mines Advisory Group’s work has helped more than 16 million people in conflict-affected communities in over 40 countries since 1989, giving them greater safety and…
Sudan: Livelihoods Advisor
Nov 21, 2016
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Concern Worldwide
Concern Worldwide is a charity that works with the world's poorest people to transform their lives. It seeks agriculture and livelihoods technical support of Concern…
Syria: MEAL Advisor, Syria Mission
Nov 21, 2016
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Acción Contra el Hambre España
Action Against Hunger is a global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger. Recognized as a leader in the…
Myanmar: What Myanmar Could Learn from Singapore about Urban Water Management
Nov 21, 2016
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Aye Sapay Phyu, Myanmar Times
Here is a vision of Yangon’s future. Its 17 reservoirs, fed by 8000 kilometres (5000 miles) of drains, rivers and canals, provide ample fresh water…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Two Kirkuk Oil Fields to be Fenced Following Attacks by ISIS
Nov 21, 2016
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Rudaw
The Avana and Bai Hassan oilfields in Kirkuk province are to be fenced in the coming months in a step to upgrade security, following recent…
Colombia: Colombian Campesino Land Defender Assassinated
Nov 19, 2016
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teleSUR
Erley Monroy Fierro, director of Ascal-G, one of the most important campesino associations in the eastern amazonian region, was assassinated on Friday. Since discovering that…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq's Exports from Kirkuk Fields Drop on Power Outages - Official
Nov 19, 2016
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Reuters
Iraq's exports from the Kirkuk oil field through an export pipeline to Turkey have dropped because of power outages, an official at state-run North Oil…
So What Should We Do about Conflict Minerals Compliance for Next Year?
Nov 18, 2016
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Cydney Posner
As of now, Forms SD and conflict minerals reports are still due on May 31, 2017. With all the discussion, in light of the election…
How to Ensure That You Are in Compliance with New EU Due Diligence Regulations
Nov 18, 2016
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Source Intelligence
In a recent decision, the European Union reported it reached an agreement concerning how it will regulate conflict minerals. The new guidelines set forth will…
Myanmar: Chinese Land Grabs Concern Kachin Villagers
Nov 18, 2016
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Eleven
The residents of Kachin State are worried by Chinese entrepreneurs’ massive land acquisition, sources say. The Chinese have acquired thousands of acres of vacant land,…
Colombia: OAS Says Armed Groups Occupying Land Abandoned by FARC
Nov 18, 2016
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Julián Villabona Galarza, PanAm Post
Roberto Menéndez, head of the OAS Support Mission to the peace process in Colombia, sounded the alarm in an interview given to the Colombian newspaper…
Iraq: Iraq's Oil Contracts Make Joining OPEC Output Cut More Painful
Nov 18, 2016
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Ahmad Ghaddar and Ahmed Rasheed, Reuters
Iraq would have to compensate international oil companies for limits placed on their production, according to industry sources and documents seen by Reuters, further reducing…
Afghanistan: USAID Expands Support for Afghan Agricultural Exports by $16 Million
Nov 18, 2016
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Khaama Press
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a three-year extension to its 2010-2016 Commercial Horticulture and Agricultural Marketing Program (CHAMP) to widen its…
China/Vietnam/South China Sea: Satellite Images Reveal the Island Runway That is Vietnam's Latest Move in its Escalating Row with Beijing over Influence in the South China Sea
Nov 18, 2016
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Thomas Burrows, Daily Mail.
Vietnam has extended its runway on an island in the South China Sea also claimed by Beijing in a move that will anger the regional…
Enough Project Response to Misleading Conflict Minerals Op-Ed
Nov 17, 2016
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Enough Project
On November 13, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Tate Watkins entitled "How Dodd-Frank Led to More Mayhem in Africa." Relying on outdated, narrow…
Myanmar: Drugs, Money and Wildlife in Myanmar's Most Secret State
Nov 17, 2016
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BBC
The remote Wa region of Shan state in Myanmar's east is a place few outsiders have seen. The people who live in this unofficial, effectively…
Iraq: Toxic Pollutants Choke Iraqi Children Caught in Islamic State Retreat
Nov 17, 2016
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Cathy Otten, Thomson Reuters Foundation
A month into their battle with Iraqi forces for control of the city of Mosul, the jihadists are leaving behind not just physical devastation but…
Myanmar: Cardinal: Time to Reverse Myanmar’s Decline, Keep Resource Wealth
Nov 17, 2016
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Catholic News Service
Yangon Cardinal Charles Bo said it was time to “reverse the trend” of a 60-year decline in Myanmar, designated the “least-developed country” by the World…
Sudan/South Sudan: Abyei Solution Elusive as UN Extends Peacekeepers' Mandate
Nov 17, 2016
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Jill Craig, Voice of America
The U.N. Security Council voted this week to extend the mandate of the peacekeeping force in the disputed oil-rich Abyei area between South Sudan and…
DRC: Controversial Deal Between DRC Mining Firm & Foreign Investor Raises Concerns
Nov 17, 2016
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Caroline Theuri, Face2Face Africa
A state mining company in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sold the royalty rights of a lucrative copper mining project to a company owned by…
Oil Palm Produce Must Be Value Added to Avoid Liberia’s 90-Year Mistake
Nov 16, 2016
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Liberian Observer
The oil palm producers in Liberia, notably Malaysia’s Golden Veroleum and Sime Darby, are saying the same thing Harvey Firestone said in 1926, when he…
Afghanistan: Why Does Afghanistan Grow So Much Opium?
Nov 16, 2016
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Patricia Nilsson, Economy
Colombia: Illegal Gold Mining in Colombia is Destroying the Rainforest
Nov 16, 2016
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Bram Ebus, Newsweek
Colombia’s 52-year-old civil war has devastated the country’s Pacific coast, so close to 80 percent of the people who voted in the recent referendum supported…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Several Oil Wells Still on Fire Near Mosul, Affecting Health and Environment
Nov 16, 2016
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Rudaw
Almost three months after the retreating Islamic State set oil wells ablaze in Qayyara, 60 km south of Mosul, more than a dozen oil wells…
Bolivia: Bolivia's Water Warriors, Reignited
Nov 16, 2016
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Nasya Razavi
“They’re charging for air,” laments a Cochabamba resident. It is July 2016, and a serious drought has affected Cochabamba and its surrounding municipalities. After the…
Myanmar: Farmers Decry 'Landgrabbing' in Mindanao
Nov 16, 2016
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Angelo Caballero, ABS-CBN News
Over 600 farmers staged a protest in front of Lapanday Foods Corporation office in Barangay Pampanga to voice out their struggles over land rights Wednesday.…
Syria: Poor Rains, Supply Issues Exacerbating Food Security Woes in War-Torn Syria, UN Warns
Nov 16, 2016
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News Tribe
Reeling under the effects of a seemingly unending conflict, Syrian farmers may have “no other option” but to abandon food production, with grave consequences on…
Water During and After Armed Conflicts: What Protection in International Law?
Nov 15, 2016
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Mara Tignino
Armed conflicts affect water in several ways: destruction and damage of water facilities, attacks against power plants providing water supplies, and the collapse of water…
Afghanistan:Climate Change Fuels Insurgency in Afghanistan
Nov 15, 2016
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Agence France-Presse
The mountainous land-locked country was classed in 2012 as among the most vulnerable to climate change, a worldwide problem that is the subject of a…