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Mozambique: Disaster Risk Resilient Livelihoods Recovery in Gaza Province - Conduct Final Evaluation
Dec 6, 2015
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UNDP
In response to the devastating floods that hit Mozambique from January to February 2013, UNDP Mozambique launched a two year project in support of disaster…
DRC: US Forest Service National Coordinator
Dec 6, 2015
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USAID
Management and Engineering Technologies International, Inc. (METI), in collaboration with the US Forest Service, as a part of the US Agency for International Development’s Central…
Liberia: As They Abandon Barren Land, Farmers Take Problems with Them
Dec 6, 2015
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Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Creeping deserts, loss of trees, barren soils and water shortages are pushing poor farmers off their land from Africa to Latin America, forcing people to…
Mexico: Brutal Cartels Fight over Mexico's 'Conflict-Free' Gold Revenues
Dec 6, 2015
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Frank Jack Daniel, Anahi Rama, and Lizbeth Diaz, Reuters
Heroin traffickers linked to the abduction and disappearance of 43 students a year ago are battling over millions of dollars paid by Canadian mining giant…
Environmental Protection and Non-State Armed Groups: Setting a Place at the Table for the Elephant in the Room
Dec 4, 2015
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Jonathan Somer
In this blog, consultant Jonathan Somer begins to explore the terra incognita of current efforts to strengthen legal protection for the environment in relation to armed…
Vietnam/South China Sea: Vietnam Launches Investigation into Killing of Fisherman in Disputed Waters
Dec 4, 2015
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Koel Chu, Hong Kong Free Press
Vietnamese officials have begun an investigation into the death of a fisherman who was shot in disputed waters in the South China Sea. Sources claim that…
Water Wars: Water Wars at Core of ISIS, Syria, Israel-Palestine and Other Conflicts Reports Fresh Water Advocate Sharon Kleyne
Dec 4, 2015
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PRWeb
Water, not oil or gold, is the world’s most precious commodity. Water not only keeps every living organism alive, it is the basis for all…
Iraq/Syria/Islamic State: Islamic State’s Moneymaking Streams Take a Hit as It Loses Territory
Dec 4, 2015
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Hugh Naylor, Washington Post
By most estimates, the Islamic State is the world’s richest terrorist organization. But it appears to be wrestling with money problems that could affect its…
Peru: Illegal Gold Miners in Madre de Dios, Peru, Paralyze the Region with Protests
Dec 4, 2015
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Ruxandra Guidi, Mongabay
Since November 23, the southeastern region of Madre de Dios in Peru has been paralyzed by street protests, road blockades, and tire burnings. Hundreds of…
Water, Wars and an Uncertain Future
Dec 2, 2015
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Sundeep Waslekar
In its Blue Peace report, published in February 2011, Strategic Foresight Group proposed several solutions to use water as an instrument of peace and prosperity…
Liberia: Taylor Land Dispute - Several Jailed in Tussle - Police Wounded
Dec 2, 2015
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Bettie K. Johnson Mbayo, FrontPageAfrica
Former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor who is currently serving 50 years sentence in The Hague has requested the court to grant him damages on…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraqi Kurds Make $3.29bn from Direct Oil Sales
Dec 2, 2015
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Agence France-Presse
Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region said Tuesday it has made more than $3.29 billion in revenues since June from direct oil export sales that the country’s…
Iraq/Syria/Islamic State: Maps Reveal Chain of ISIS Oil Smuggling Routes from Syria and Iraq into Turkey. Russian Defense Ministry
Dec 2, 2015
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Global Research
Russia’s Defense Ministry published images and a map it says reveal a chain of oil smuggling to Turkey from Islamic State – from extraction to…
Iraq/Turkey/Islamic State: Iraq to File Complaint against Turkey if Daesh-Ankara Oil Trade Confirmed
Dec 2, 2015
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PressTV
Baghdad says it will lodge a formal lawsuit against Ankara with the United Nations Security Council if claims are proved right that the Turkish government is…
Environmental Peacebuilding Research Volunteers Needed
Dec 1, 2015
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ELI & UNEP
The Environmental Law Institute (ELI), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the University of Tokyo, and McGill University seek Visiting Attorneys, Visiting Researchers, and Research…
Climate Change Is a National Security Problem
Dec 1, 2015
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Chuck Hagel
It is remarkable that French security forces are taking on the international climate change conference in Paris in the shadow of the recent attacks. Then,…
Gender Equality Is Central to Effective Climate Action
Dec 1, 2015
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Melanne Verveer and Mary Robinson
As the nations of the world meet in Paris to address climate change, it is critical that women play a central role in these historic…
Sierra Leone: AWDC Issues Alert over Fake Sierra Leone KP Certificate
Dec 1, 2015
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David Brummer, IDEX
The Antwerp World Diamond Center’s (AWDC) Diamond Office has alerted the Kimberley Process (KP) about the discovery of a false KP certificate from Sierra Leone.…
South Sudan: Bishops Call on South Sudan Government, Oil Companies to Clean up Pariang Spills
Dec 1, 2015
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Radio Tamazuj
The Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan has appealed to the government of South Sudan and oil companies to deal with the oil spills…
The ECC Factbook Illustrates How the Environment Can Contribute to Peace and Conflict
Nov 30, 2015
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Johannes Ackva & Benjamin Pohl
In his speech on climate change and national security on November 10, Secretary of State John Kerry said climate change is already a “threat multiplier,”…
Algeria/Iraq/Libya/Nigeria/Venezuela: Oil Plunge Raises Fears of Societal Unrest
Nov 30, 2015
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Elizabeth MacDonald, FOXBusiness
With Wall Street shops like Goldman Sachs and government officials in Venezuela signaling oil could go to the mid-$20 per barrel range next year,…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Dana Gas Group Awarded $1.98 Billion in Iraq Kurds Dispute
Nov 29, 2015
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Arif Sharif, World Oil
Dana Gas said a court has ordered the Kurdistan Regional Government to pay it and two other energy companies $1.98 billion in a dispute over…
Climate Change: Meet the Woman Whose Two-Word Catchphrase Made the Military Care about Climate
Nov 29, 2015
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Dan Vergano, BuzzFeed
In 2006, as war mounted in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military began to see the human costs of climate extremes. As drought hit Afghanistan,…
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Villagers Sue Mining Company in London High Court
Nov 29, 2015
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Lisa O'Carroll, The Guardian
An iron ore firm once listed in London is being sued in a multimillion pound lawsuit over evictions and alleged violent treatment of workers and…
Timor-Leste: Maritime Arrangements and Timor-Leste’s Oil Ploy
Nov 28, 2015
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Hamish McDonald, Saturday Paper
Who owns the petroleum resources of Tasi Mane is now the subject of diplomatic and legal machismo in a dispute between Timor-Leste and its much…
South Sudan: What Steps are Needed to Create 28 States in South Sudan?
Nov 28, 2015
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Radio Tamazuj
The proposal by South Sudan's President Salva Kiir to create 28 new states in place of the 10 existing states requires practical as well as…
House Hearing on Conflict Minerals Rule: A Mixed Bag
Nov 27, 2015
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Cydney Posner
At a hearing last week before a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee, the members heard testimony regarding the Dodd-Frank conflict minerals provision. The Chair expressed…
Why It’s Time for a Free Kurdistan
Nov 27, 2015
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Aliza Marcus and Andrew Apostolou
It’s time to stop debating whether or not the Kurds deserve an independent state. There are around 40 million Kurds across Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and…
Timor-Leste: Top Lawyer Says Australia Has Criminal Case to Answer over East Timor Spying Scandal
Nov 27, 2015
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Steve Cannane, Sashka Koloff, and Brigid Andersen, ABC News
One of Australia's most senior lawyers believes there is a criminal case to answer over an Australian spying operation in East Timor and that senior…
Myanmar: Controversial Mining Bill Submitted to Parliament for a Third Time
Nov 27, 2015
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Htoo Thant, Myanmar Times
The long-awaited Mining Law amendment bill, which will update legislation from 1994, was suspended earlier this year following fierce disagreements between the upper and lower…