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Nigeria/Ogoniland: Nigeria Launches $1 Billion Ogoniland Clean-up and Restoration Programme
Jun 2, 2016
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UNEP
Nigerian Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari, today set in motion a $1 billion clean-up and restoration programme of the Ogoniland region…
Can Businesses Police the Behaviour of Global Suppliers?
Jun 1, 2016
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Ken Fireman
A group of activists wanted to shine a spotlight on the opaque supply chain that provides raw materials for cellphones. What they discovered was just…
Peace After Paris: Addressing Climate, Conflict, and Development
Jun 1, 2016
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Sreya Panuganti
2015 was a historic year for international commitments to sustainable development, climate change action, and new kinds of peacebuilding. For governments and policymakers, now comes…
Kalabagh Dam: Fact and Fiction (Part 1)
Jun 1, 2016
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Zafar Mahmood
World over water storage and irrigation projects are no strangers to controversies - but difference of opinion surrounding Kalabagh Dam (KBD) Project has some unique…
Kalabagh Dam: International Water Disputes (Part 2)
Jun 1, 2016
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Zafar Mahmood
What encouraged me to search for the elusive consensus on KBD Project was the research conducted by Ms. Sjomander Magnusson, Director Trans-boundary Water Management of…
Lee on Young and Goldman, 'Livelihoods, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding'
Jun 1, 2016
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SungYong Lee
The linkage between environment, conflict, and peacebuilding is no longer a new agenda. This topic, which was once treated as a niche area, has quickly moved into…
Somalia: WASH Assistant- Garowe
Jun 1, 2016
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International Rescue Committee
The position is responsible for rehabilitation and construction activities for target IDP camps in Garowe WASH systems - including water systems, sanitation facilities and hygiene…
Myanmar: Program Coordinator
Jun 1, 2016
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International Rescue Committee
The Program Coordinator will be based in Sittwe and have overall responsibility for the coordination of the partners and project implementation. The Program Coordinator will…
Cambodia: Cambodia Coordinator
Jun 1, 2016
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EarthRights International
The Cambodia Coordinator is responsible for overseeing and implementing ERI’s campaign and advocacy activities in Cambodia, and ensuring that these are linked and integrated with…
Sierra Leone: Monitoring and Evaluation Expert
Jun 1, 2016
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UNDP
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) recently approved the Project Identification Form (PIF) that was presented by UNDP on behalf of the Environment Protection Agency on…
South Sudan: Chief of Party
Jun 1, 2016
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Pact
The COP shall have overall responsibility for managing and reporting on activities for the anticipated Livelihoods, Vulnerability and Resilience Program (LVRP); making key decisions and…
South Sudan: WASH and Nutrition Expert
Jun 1, 2016
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Pact
Reporting to the Chief of Party, the WASH and Nutrition Expert will be responsible for technical leadership of the water, sanitation and hygiene and nutrition…
Somalia: Environment Expert
Jun 1, 2016
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CTG Global
CTG support and manage humanitarian projects in fragile and conflict-affected countries around the world. With past performance in 15 countries – from the Middle East,…
Conflict Minerals: More U.S. Companies Expected to Show Improved Conflict Minerals Disclosure Reports Based on Increased Use of Source Intelligence Platform
Jun 1, 2016
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Source Intelligence
More U.S. companies should show greater supply chain diligence in their latest conflict mineral disclosure reports with the SEC, based on an upswing in the…
Myanmar: Yangon Region Should Turn to Dams for Electricity: Chief Minister
Jun 1, 2016
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Eleven Myanmar
Dams can provide an affordable means for electricity production and water storage, said Yangon Region Chief Minister Phyo Min Thein at an event to inform…
Colombia: Colombia City Combines Gardening and Hip Hop to Revive Community
Jun 1, 2016
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Dylan Lebecki, Global Voices
“Seeds of the Future” demonstrates how organized projects are capable of creating and sustaining alternative communities where victimization and social invisibility have dominated in the past.
The Folly of Lobbying to Carve Up Iraq
May 31, 2016
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Luay al-Khatteeb
"It was the Kurds," wrote Thomas Friedman in 2014, "who used the window of freedom we opened for them to overcome internal divisions, start to…
Kurdistan’s Independence Referendum From An Economic Point Of View
May 31, 2016
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Tara Shwan
This is not a political opinion, but an economic point of view. Some people in the Kurdistan Region oppose the proposed referendum for independence just…
Post-Conflict in Colombia. Post-War on Drugs
May 31, 2016
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Juan Carlos Garzón-Vergara, openDemocracy
The Havana agreements offer an opportunity to put an end to the war on drugs through an approach from a territorial development perspective to what…
Afghanistan: In Afghanistan, the Taliban isn’t the Only Group Battling for Land
May 31, 2016
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Antonio Olivo, Washington Post
Amid the city’s swirling winds, construction crews work steadily to create a new downtown strip that, someday, will include high-rise office towers and thousands of…
Afghanistan: Adrift in Their Own Land, Afghanistan's Displaced See Their Population Swell
May 31, 2016
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Ali M. Latifi, Los Angeles Times
A newly released Amnesty International report has found a “staggering” increase in the number of Afghans driven from their homes by the deepening unrest, political…
Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi Urged to Halt Norwegian Backed Dam in Shan State
May 31, 2016
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BNI, Mizzima
The three groups behind the statement, the Shan Human Rights Foundation, the Shan Sapawa Environmental Organisation and the Shan State Farmers’ Network, say they are…
DRC: How New Doc 'Merci Congo' Sheds Light on Deadly Conflict
May 31, 2016
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Alex Suskind, Rolling Stone
Chronicle of African nation's ongoing civil war shows how corporate entities and everyday people are helping the healing to begin.
Global Witness Report on Liberia - Exposure of Ellen’s Corruption Legacy or Foreign Investors Predatory?
May 30, 2016
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FrontPageAfrica
Liberia, especially its densely populated and seemingly clean capital Monrovia, has been gripped with mixed reactions and political in-fights since the exposure of a corruption…
Myanmar: Cyclone Roanu Fails to Fill Inle Lake
May 30, 2016
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Eleven Myanmar
Although rain fell around Inle Lake in southern Shan State in the last week of May due to the effects from Cyclone Roanu, the lake…
Sierra Leone: FAO convenes the Second VGGT Learning Programme on Land Tenure
May 30, 2016
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Awoko
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has concluded four days Learning Programme on Governing Land for Women and Men, to Support…
Myanmar: KNU Wants Government Recognition of Ethnic Communities and Armed Groups’ Land Ownership Policies
May 30, 2016
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Burma News International
Karen National Union leaders has called for respective state and regional governments to recognized land rights and policies that are already in place for decades…
Myanmar: Fallen Timber, Uneasy Officials
May 30, 2016
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Mratt Kyaw Thu, Frontier
As conservationists welcome reports that the government is considering a one-year national logging ban, sections of the timber industry have been preparing for such a…
Why Water Scarcity is a Bigger Threat to Pakistan's Security than Militancy
May 30, 2016
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Shamil Shams, DW
Pakistan is facing an acute water shortage and may run dry by 2025, according to a latest study. Experts say the water scarcity is also…
Afghanistan: The Opium Farmers with the Police on Their Side
May 29, 2016
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Justin Rowlatt, BBC News
This year, Afghanistan is expected to produce more opium than the world consumes. Although billions of dollars have been spent trying to eradicate the crop,…