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Yemen: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Manager

Apr 17, 2022 | Danish Refugee Council

The Danish Refugee Council assists refugees and internally displaced persons across the globe: we provide emergency aid, fight for their rights, and strengthen their opportunity…

Central African Republic: Technical Officer – Dzanga Forest Elephant Project

Apr 17, 2022 | World-Wide Fund for Nature

In the Central African Republic, the World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is active in the Dzanga-Sangha Protected Areas (DSPA) located in the extreme southwest of…

South Sudan: Water and Wastewater Quality Specialist

Apr 17, 2022 | United Nations Mission in South Sudan

Under Resolution 2625 (2022), the Security Council determined that the situation in South Sudan continues to constitute a threat to international peace and security in…

Ukraine: UN Official Says ‘Food Is Being Used as a Weapon of War’ in Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Apr 17, 2022 | Mychael Schnell, The Hill

David Beasley, the executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, on Sunday said “food is being used as a weapon of war” in…

Libya: Libya Declares Force Majeure on Major Oil Field Stormed by Protesters

Apr 17, 2022 | Pan Xiaojing, Xinhua

Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) declared a state of force majeure over the El Feel oil field on Sunday as protesters forced the closure of…

Afghanistan: Pistachio Trees Being Cut Down in Baghlan for Sale

Apr 17, 2022 | Raz Mohammad, Pajhwok Afghan News

Officials of Forests’ Observation and Protection Authority of northern Baghlan province say 30 percent of pistachio trees have been cut down.

Thailand: Research Fellow, Gender, Social Equity, Justice and Climate Financing

Apr 16, 2022 | Stockholm Environment Institute

SEI is an independent international research institute founded in 1989. Its mission is to support decision-making and induce change towards sustainable development around the world…

Ukraine: Gender and GBV Technical Adviser

Apr 16, 2022 | Save the Children

To support Ukraine CO to adhere to gender and GBV international standards and best practices, to ensure women and girls have equal access to, benefit…

Asia Pacific: Regional Research on Girls’ Activism and Leadership for Climate Justice

Apr 16, 2022 | Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. As an independent development and humanitarian organisation, we…

Egypt: International Expert – Mainstreaming Gender-Responsive Climate Change and Environmental Work

Apr 16, 2022 | UN Women

In support of Egypt’s Vision 2030 and its National Strategy for the Empowerment of Egyptian Women, under the emerging UN cooperation framework for Egypt, UN…

Uganda: Terms of Reference for a Consultancy to Undertake a Gender Assessment and Develop a Gender Action Plan as Part of the Development of a Green Climate Fund Proposal

Apr 16, 2022 | International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. It…

Why Climate Action Holds the Key to German Security

Apr 16, 2022 | Sherri Goodman

The shocking force of Russia's invasion, financed by its grip on the world fossil fuel market, shows that Germany's national security depends on securing energy…

Afghanistan: 25,000 Pistachio Saplings Distributed for Plantation in Afghan Province

Apr 16, 2022 | Xinhua

More than 25,000 pistachio saplings have been distributed for plantation in Afghanistan's western Badghis province, the local government said Saturday. It said the young trees…

DRC: In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Unintended Consequences of ‘Fortress Conservation’

Apr 15, 2022 | Katie Surma, Inside Climate News

Last July, teams of armed park guards and Congolese soldiers who were supposed to be protecting a national wildlife preserve in the Democratic Republic of…

Ukraine: ‘Fortress in a City’: Steel Plant becomes Ukrainian Hold-out in Mariupol

Apr 15, 2022 | Reuters

Explosions rumbled and smoke rose this week from a steelmaking district in besieged Mariupol where dwindling Ukrainian forces are holed up as Russia tries to…

#BringBackOurGirls: Ecofeminism, Climate, and Conflict

Apr 14, 2022 | Adenike Oladosu

On the night of April 14, 2014, a group of militants attacked the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria. They kidnapped 276 female students,…

Climate Policies Must Allow Women to Control their Bodies and their Fates

Apr 14, 2022 | Zainab Yunusa

Links between women’s sexual and reproductive health and the impacts of climate change are made clear in the recent Working Group II report from the UN Intergovernmental…

The New Taleban’s Opium Ban: The same political strategy 20 years on?

Apr 14, 2022 | Jelena Bjelica, Kate Clark

Afghanistan has already lost most of its other foreign income in the form of on and off-budget support, both civilian and military, since the Taleban…

Colombia: Colombian Indigenous Community Waits in Poverty as Courts Weigh Ownership of Ancestral Land

Apr 14, 2022 | Mongabay

Nearly 13 years have passed since the Guahibo Indigenous community El Trompillo was allegedly forcibly relocated from their territory. Members report persistent hunger and overcrowding…

Colombia: Colombia Becomes First Case Study on How to Balance Biodiversity Goals with Limited Economic Resources

Apr 14, 2022 | Arizona State University

In 2019, a landmark report gave the world its first report card on biodiversity loss. There was one crystal clear conclusion: human actions threaten more…

Colombia: Solar Farms and Sacred Mountains in Colombia: Indigenous Community and Developer Link Arms to Save ‘Irreplaceable’ Nature Reserve

Apr 14, 2022 | Grant Whittington, Triple Pundit

A trailblazing environmental project launching in Colombia’s biodiverse Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains promises to pair the construction of solar farms with newly built…

Colombia: In Landslide-Prone Colombia, Forests Can Serve as an Inexpensive Shield

Apr 13, 2022 | Gianluca Cerullo, Mongabay

Colombia’s undulating, rain-soaked topography makes it a landslide hotspot. Each year, hundreds of landslides wrack the nation; some 30,730 hit between 1900 and 2018. Not…

Ukraine: ‘They Were Hooligans’: Chernobyl Locals Reeling after Russian Invasion

Apr 13, 2022 | Luke Harding, Guardian

Russian forces trundled into the Chernobyl exclusion zone on 24 February in the early hours of the invasion. According to Davidenko, they crossed over the…

Ukraine: A ‘Silent Victim’: How Nature Becomes a Casualty of War

Apr 13, 2022 | Emily Anthes, New York Times

Since Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February, the world’s attention has been focused on the nation’s heavily shelled cities. But Ukraine, in an ecological transition…

Battles over UN Rulebook on War and Nature Show Might Still Trumps Right

Apr 12, 2022 | Tracy Keeling

War is always an environmental catastrophe, and one we can ill afford in our age of climate and ecological crises. In light of this, the UN’s International Law Commission (ILC) is…

Somalia: UN Women Somalia, in Partnership with the Federal Ministry of Women and Human Rights Development and Ministries of Women Launch Two Research Studies

Apr 12, 2022

UN Women Somalia, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry for Women and Human Rights Development (MoWHRD) and the Ministries of Women, Jubaland and the South West State, launched two research studies focusing on gender, climate and conflict, and market assessments of micro-enterprise opportunities at…