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Liberia: Chief Resilience Officer
Feb 23, 2017
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Axis Human Capital
The City of Paynesville would like to hire a Chief Resilience Officer to provide technical leadership on resilience building. The Chief Resilience Officer will be…
A Congolese View on Why We Need the U.S. Conflict Minerals Law
Feb 23, 2017
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Janvier Murairi Bakihanaye
As a native of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), I have seen first-hand what things are like on the ground – gang-rape, modern child slavery and other…
Conflict Minerals: Why Apple and Intel Don’t Want to See the Conflict Minerals Rule Rolled back
Feb 23, 2017
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Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post
Apple doesn’t want to see it scrapped. Neither does Intel or Tiffany & Co. But the U.S. conflict minerals law — which requires American public…
Conflict Minerals: USA: 100 Investors Express Continued Support for Conflict Minerals Due Diligence Requirement under Dodd Frank Act
Feb 23, 2017
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Boston Common Asset Management, Interfath Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Mercy Investment Services, Responsible Sourcing Network, Trillium Asset Management, US SIF, and other investors
As investors and investor groups with over $3.75 trillion in assets under management, we are writing to express our continued support for Section 1502 of…
Ethiopia/South Sudan: Ethiopia Mulls Road to Import Oil from War-Torn South Sudan
Feb 23, 2017
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Nizar Manek, Bloomberg
Ethiopia may finance a road linking it with South Sudan’s largest oilfields, allowing the war-ravaged country to sell its neighbor fuel produced at a planned…
Liberia: Unlawful Killings: ECOWAS Court Urged to Compel Liberia Govt. to Pay 500 Families $200m
Feb 23, 2017
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Nigerian Tribune
A Non-Governmental Organisation, the Concerned Youth of Ganta for Reconstruction and Development, and a Liberian citizen have sued the Republic of Liberia at the ECOWAS…
Myanmar: Motion Raised to Allow Lands Owned by Non-Nationals in Rakhine to Be Seized and Given to Citizens
Feb 23, 2017
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Mizzima
Rakhine State Legislative Assembly legislator Aung Win from Myaybon constituency (2) said that he would raise a motion at the Rakhine State assembly to take…
Seeking Applicants: Ph.D Fellowship in Climate, Conflict and Food Security
Feb 22, 2017
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Norwegian University of Life Sciences - NMBU
The Faculty of Landscape and Society invites applications for a doctoral fellowship in International Environment and Development Studies at the Department of International Environment and…
Will the US Fight for Oil in the South China Sea?
Feb 22, 2017
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Wesley Rahn
US Secretary of State Tillerson's former role as ExxonMobil CEO has fueled speculation that US assertiveness in the South China Sea is connected with oil…
A Major Revamp, if Not Repeal, in the Works for the SEC's Conflict Minerals Rule
Feb 22, 2017
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Laura Tieger-Salisbury
Electronics companies such as Intel, Apple and HP won't be affected by the latest attempt to kill—the "conflicts minerals" rule. Dynda Thomas, partner and leader of…
Myanmar: Water-Bird Population Falling Rapidly: Fauna & Flora
Feb 22, 2017
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Hsan Htoo Aung, Eleven
The water-bird population native to the Ayeyawady River has been reduced by between 60-90 per cent over the past 14 years, with bird catching and…
Afghanistan: How Neglect and Remoteness Bred Insurgency and a Poppy Boom: The Story of Badghis
Feb 22, 2017
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Jelena Bjelica, Afghanistan Analysts Network
An unprecedented increase in opium poppy cultivation has been documented in Badghis for 2016, a remote western province that is largely underreported – even more…
Myanmar: Myanmar Makes Record Seizures of Illegal Timber
Feb 22, 2017
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Malay Mail
Myanmar seized a record amount of illegal timber this financial year as part of a government clampdown to protect the country’s rapidly disappearing forests, a…
The Mosul Operation: An Interim Open-Source Assessment of Conflict-Related Environmental Damage
Feb 21, 2017
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Wim Zwijnenburg
As the Mosul Operations slowly progress, a myriad of open-source information is emerging from both Ninawa province and other areas where intense fighting took place…
Myanmar: Myanmar Villagers Demand Land Compensation from Copper Mine Operator
Feb 21, 2017
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Radio Free Asia
About 100 residents from the town of Letpadaung protested on Tuesday against the Chinese company that operates a controversial copper mine in northwestern Myanmar’s Sagaing…
South Sudan: Famine in South Sudan as Oil Revenues Remain Elusive
Feb 21, 2017
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Damir Kaletovic, Oil Price
The South Sudanese government and three humanitarian agencies have declared a famine in some parts of the country as the newly independent nation struggle to…
Sudan/South Sudan: South Sudan Risks Losing Oil-Rich Abyei
Feb 21, 2017
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Fred Oluoch, East African
South Sudan risks losing the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei with internal strife taking most of its attention as Khartoum moves to entrench its administration…
A Long and Winding Road Ends for Resource Extraction Disclosure
Feb 20, 2017
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Kimberley Anderson
On February 14, 2017, President Trump approved a joint resolution of Congress that disapproves the SEC’s rule requiring specific disclosures by resource extraction issuers, effectively…
Myanmar: EU-Standard Forestry Agreement to Be Set up
Feb 20, 2017
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Si Thu Lwin, Myanmar Times
Forestry staff, relevant government personnel, environmental conservation groups and timber entrepreneurs met in Mandalay on February 15 for a workshop to discuss the processes involved…
Uganda: Uganda Launches Gold Refinery, amid Fears of Dirty Minerals
Feb 20, 2017
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Associated Press
A gold refinery primarily owned by a Belgian investor was launched in Uganda Monday amid concerns about the source of its minerals. The African Gold…
Climate Change: Patricia Espinosa: “The Climate Change Story Is a Security Story” - Address at Munich Security Conference
Feb 18, 2017
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UN
At the annual Munich Security Conference, the UN’s top climate change official UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa gave an opening address at a discussion on…
Water Wars: Rediscovering the Status Quo in the South China Sea
Feb 17, 2017
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Jared Dummitt and Eliot Kim
China continued to react critically to the Trump administration’s emerging position on the South China Sea. Responding to a joint statement by President Trump and…
South Sudan: South Sudan Deploys More Troops in Oil Fields to Boost Production
Feb 17, 2017
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Sudan Tribune
South Sudan has deployed more troops in preparation for the resumption oil production in areas where activities were halted as a result of the December…
Iraq: Iraq Plans to Acquire 'Large Fleet' of Oil Tankers
Feb 17, 2017
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Maher Chmaytelli and Adrian Croft, Reuters
Iraq plans to acquire a "large fleet" of oil tankers to transport the OPEC nation's crude to global markets, Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi said in…
Conflict Minerals: Church Leaders Hope Trump Does Not Repeal Conflict-Minerals Provisions
Feb 17, 2017
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Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service
Church leaders and organizations in Africa, Europe and the United States said it would be disastrous if U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order…
Afghanistan: Scientists in Afghanistan Set New Program to Raise Wheat Harvests
Feb 17, 2017
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Rajiv Sharma and Zaki Afshar, CIMMYT
Inadequate access to new disease-resistant varieties and short supplies of certified seed are holding back wheat output and contributing to rising food insecurity in Afghanistan, according…
The De Facto Embargo is Over: Record-High Conflict-Free Minerals Exports from Eastern Congo
Feb 16, 2017
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Annie Callaway and Sasha Lezhnev
The conflict-free minerals trade has been slowly but steadily increasing in recent years, and 2016 resulted in record-high exports from the eastern Democratic Republic of…
China/India/Nepal: Water Diplomacy
Feb 16, 2017
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Pramod Arayol, Kathmandu Post
Nepal, China, and India have witnessed civilisations with diverse religions, cultures and heritages growing in harmony but with a brutal history of colonisation followed by…
South Sudan: South Sudan Seeks Unlikely Economic Salvation with Farming
Feb 16, 2017
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Okech Francis, Bloomberg
South Sudan, ravaged by three years of conflict and impending famine, said it’s seeking investors for agricultural land in a bid to offset a fall…
Kyrgyzstan/Uzbekistan: When Climate Change Starts Wars
Feb 16, 2017
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John Wendle, Nautilus
Throughout the spring and summer in 2016, tensions flared after ethnic Uzbek villagers and police blocked access to the reservoir and its water, which lies…