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Bending Gender Norms: Women’s Engagement in Agriculture
Feb 11, 2022
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Manisha Shrestha
Researchers at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have studied and witnessed that women, particularly in South Asia, have strongly ingrained and culturally…
Myanmar: Kachin Tycoon Draws Controversy over Gold Mining at Myitsone
Feb 11, 2022
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Emily Fisbhein, Jaw Tu Hkwang, Nu Nu Lusan, and Jauman Naw, Frontier Myanmar
The confluence, known as Myitsone in Burmese and Mali N’Mai Zup in Kachin, captured global attention in 2011 when then-President U Thein Sein suspended a…
How Can Climate Finance Work Better for Fragile and Conflict-Affected Regions?
Feb 10, 2022
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Catherine Wong and Yue Cao
Climate change often hits the hardest and is felt most profoundly in fragile and conflict-affected settings, which suffer high vulnerability and low investments in coping…
DRC/Uganda: UN's Top Court Orders Uganda to Pay $325 Million to DR Congo
Feb 10, 2022
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UN
Uganda must pay the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) $325 million in reparations related to the brutal conflict between the two nations from 1998…
Vietnam: Women Coffee Growers in Vietnam Boost Climate Mitigation Through Agroforestry
Feb 9, 2022
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Julie Mollins
Greater gender equity benefits reforestation efforts.
Iran: Iran’s Water Woes Worsen Despite Warmer Taliban Ties
Feb 9, 2022
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Shelly Kittleson, Al-Monitor
Iranian and Taliban officials have issued conflicting claims about how water from a dam in southwestern Afghanistan will be used, amid worsening shortages in Iran…
Uganda: LWF Urges Uganda to Protect Vulnerable Women
Feb 9, 2022
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The Lutheran World Federation
In a Shadow Report to the CEDAW committee, partners call on governments to support women in refugee communities.
Ireland: Covid-19 has Created a 'Pandemic Within a Pandemic' of Gender-Based Violence
Feb 9, 2022
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Maeve Lee
The Irish Consortium on Gender Based Violence (ICGBV) has demanded increased efforts to stop violence against women, warning that Covid-19 has created “a pandemic within…
Why Militaries Shouldn’t Be Exempt from EU Battery Laws
Feb 8, 2022
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
The EU Green Deal and 2050 carbon neutrality targets are set to drive forward a low-carbon economy reliant on battery-powered technology. Both the Green Deal…
Environmental Peacebuilding: Science Meets Constructive Resistance
Feb 8, 2022
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Sawssan Abou-Zahr
Four years prior to the October 17th 2019 Revolution, people in Lebanon took to the streets seeking sustainable solutions for the so-called garbage crisis. These…
Colombia: In Colombia, Escobar’s Hippos Spawn Another Problem: Wildlife Trafficking
Feb 8, 2022
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Diana María Pachón, Mongabay
For many people in Doradal, John Aristides Saldarriaga’s hometown, the fishing story is just that: a tall tale. The prevailing rumor is that Saldarriaga had…
Colombia: Forest Rule to Outshine Colombia Auction Plans
Feb 8, 2022
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Paul Harris, Mining Journal
Details of the areas are expected to be made available when the pre-qualification process opens. The government offered five small copper areas for auction in…
The Congo Unearthed: A Look at the Republic of the Congo’s Mining Sector
Feb 8, 2022
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Damon Biesold, Energy Capital & Power
The Republic of the Congo is endowed with abundant mineral deposits, yet its mining sector remains largely underdeveloped. Overdependence on oil and gas revenues has…
Brief Debrief from the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding
Feb 8, 2022
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
From February 1 to 4, the Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx™) and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) convened the Second International Conference…
South Korea: The South Korean Election’s Gender Conflict and the Future of Women Voters
Feb 8, 2022
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Darcie Draudt
In South Korea, gender equality and the feminism movement have become politicized and polarizing issues, especially among the younger generation, leading up to the March…
DRC: Program Coordinator
Feb 7, 2022
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UNDP
The United Nations Development Programme is a United Nations organization tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. UN-Habitat…
Niger: Regional Climate Project Manager
Feb 7, 2022
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Enabel
Enabel is the Belgian Development Agency. It executes the Belgian governmental cooperation. The Agency also implements actions for other national and international organisations. Together with its Belgian and…
Somalia: Humanitarian-Development-Peace Triple Nexus Research
Feb 7, 2022
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Oxfam Novib
Conflicts and shocks linked to climate change are more frequent and intense, leading to poverty and inequality, exacerbating these phenomena and people’s vulnerability. In this…
Switzerland: Internship, Climate Action, Division of Resilience and Solution
Feb 7, 2022
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is offering a full-time internship within the Office of the Special Advisor on Climate Action under the Division of Resilience…
Uganda: Civil Peace Service (CPS) Advisor (m/f/d) for Civil Society Organisations Working on Transformation of Past and Present Conflicts Related to Land and Natural Resources
Feb 7, 2022
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Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
For more than 50 years, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), as a company of the German Federal Government, has been supporting the implementation…
Mali: Gender Equality, Diversity, and Social Inclusion Advisor
Feb 7, 2022
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when…
Ethiopia or Lebanon/Morocco: Scientist, Seed System Specialist
Feb 7, 2022
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International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is a treaty-based international non-profit research organization supported by CGIAR.
ICARDA’s mission is to reduce…
CAR: National Agronomist Expert (Cassava Production)
Feb 7, 2022
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and…
Mali: Gender Equality, Diversity, and Social Inclusion Advisor
Feb 7, 2022
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when…
Did You Miss Any Sessions at the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding? Check out EnPAx's YouTube Channel!
Feb 7, 2022
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Environmental Peacebuilding Association
The Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding featured 77 roundtables, panels, and other sessions. Most of those sessions were recorded and posted on the EnPAx…
Mozambique: WASH Coordinator
Feb 7, 2022
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FHI 360
FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our staff includes experts…
Yemen: WASH Advisor
Feb 7, 2022
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when…
Sudan: ‘Democracy Is Life’: The Grass-Roots Movement Taking On Sudan’s Generals
Feb 7, 2022
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Abdi Latif Dahir
In a bare, dusty field in a neighborhood north of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, about a hundred people — gray-haired men in white robes and…
Near East and North Africa Countries Focus on Nutrition, Climate, Resilience, Water and Gender
Feb 7, 2022
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African Business
The 36th FAO Regional Conference for the Near East (NERC36) started today with a focus on improving nutrition, building resilient rural communities, optimizing water management,…
Chile: Chile Sets a Record with Environment Ministry Going to a Woman
Feb 6, 2022
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Stephanie Alzate
Maisa Rojas, a renowned climate expert is Chile’s new Minister of Environment among 14 women getting relevant positions in new government out of a total…