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Indonesia: Feature-Eco-friendly Eid - the Indonesian Women on a Mission to Plant Trees
May 12, 2021
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Harry Jacques, Reuters
On a grass verge by a road dissecting miles of rice fields in Central Java province, a group of volunteers with ‘Aisyiyah, Indonesia’s oldest Islamic…
Lebanon/Syria: Syrian Landmines Wash into Lebanon Due to Floods
May 12, 2021
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Najia Houssari, Arab News
As authorities continue to find and extract landmines left behind from the Lebanese Civil War, a new wave of explosives has entered the country’s border…
Vietnam: Agent Orange Case: After Defeat, Woman, 79, Vows to Keep Up Fight
May 12, 2021
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Alexander Durie, Al Jazeera
The landmark trial between a 79-year-old Vietnamese-French woman and 14 chemical multinationals was always going to be a David and Goliath legal battle. Trần Tố Nga…
DRC: DR Congo to Suffer $4bn Shortfall from Gertler Contracts: Activists
May 12, 2021
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Agence France-Presse
The Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to suffer a shortfall of nearly four billion dollars from mining and oil contracts that it signed…
This UK Campaign is Working to Close the Politics Gender Gap
May 11, 2021
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Kate Whiting
On the green benches inside London’s historic River Thames-side landmark, the Houses of Parliament, sit twice as many men as women. “At the rate we’re…
Feeding Peace
May 11, 2021
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Vongai Murugani
The impact of conflict on food security is well documented. But does food security and feeding the hungry really contribute to peace, or is it…
Climate and Conflict as a Vicious Cycle: The Case of Afghanistan
May 11, 2021
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Hans-Joachim Giessmann and Charlotte Hamm
Climate change is neither a national phenomenon nor a challenge limited to individual states. Consequences of climate change can be felt more quickly or more…
United States: Why Indigenous Women are Risking Arrest to Fight Enbridge’s Line 3 Pipeline through Minnesota
May 10, 2021
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Hilary Beaumont, Environment Health News
After a six-year-long permitting process, Enbridge contractors in Minnesota are building Line 3, the largest project in the company's history. If completed, it will carry…
Afghanistan: Women, Girls, and Afghanistan’s Missing Justice
May 10, 2021
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The New Humanitarian
Rights groups say girls were the clear target of the 8 May violence, when a series of explosions erupted as many students were leaving class.…
What Is behind the Escalation on the Kyrgyz-Tajik Border?
May 10, 2021
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Andrea Schmitz and Dumitru Minzarari
At the end of April, a conflict over water escalated into the most serious border clashes between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan since their independence from the…
Liberia: Pres. Weah to Constitute Committee to Probe Nimba Land Dispute
May 10, 2021
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Global News Network
President George Manneh Weah has disclosed plan to set up a committee that will be charged with the responsibility to thoroughly investigate the land dispute…
Myanmar: Trafficking of Banned Myanmar Teak Lands German Company with $4m Fine
May 10, 2021
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Nicolás Bustamante Hernández, Mongabay
WOB Timber, a logging company based in Hamburg, Germany, has been ordered by a court to pay a $4 million fine for illegally trading Myanmar…
Afghanistan: 75pc of Mining Sites Controlled by Militants and Strongmen
May 10, 2021
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Ahmad Sohaib Hasrat, Pajhwok Afghan News
A table of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) shows that of 748 mining areas in different parts of Afghanistan, about 283 are controlled…
Myanmar: China Alarmed after Strategic Oil Pipeline Station in Myanmar Is Attacked
May 8, 2021
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Atul Aneja, Daiji World
Alarm bells are ringing loud and clear in China after Myanmar protesters have attacked a monitoring station of a strategic pipeline that ferries oil to…
Translating Urgency into Action on Water, Climate, and Security
May 7, 2021
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Ratia Tekenet
“We need to devote our full attention to the relationship between water, climate, and security, increase understanding of the issue, and take urgent action,” said…
Improving Resource Governance and Building Sustainable Peace
May 7, 2021
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Stacy D. VanDeveer
In a recently published piece in World Development, Florian Krampe, Farah Hegazi and Stacy D VanDeveer explore the potentially dramatic benefits of improved environmental and…
The Environmental Cost of the War on Tigray
May 7, 2021
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel
It has been more than six months since the Ethiopian regime of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the 2019 Nobel Peace Laureate, declared a full-scale war…
Four Months into Brexit, the UK and France Have Resorted to Gunboat Diplomacy over Fish
May 6, 2021
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Luke McGee, CNN
Take a glance at the British media and you'd be forgiven for thinking that the UK was preparing for war with France. On Wednesday night,…
Peace Is Possible in Afghanistan
May 5, 2021
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Mirwais Wakil and Anthony Pahnke
Few have hope for Afghanistan. Those in favour of the United States government’s decision to withdraw forces from Afghanistan see no pathway to victory by…
Climate Justice and Gender Justice: An Essential Pairing to Get Resilience Right
May 5, 2021
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Molly Middlehurst and Tamar Eisen
Young women activists from around the world have been leaders in the movement to combat climate change — organizing protests, rallies, strikes, sit-ins and lawsuits…
Philippines: Tausug Women in Conflict Areas Find Solution to Food Security
May 5, 2021
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Liza Abubakar-Jocson, Manila Bulletin
A simple gardening program in Sulu is bringing soldiers and residents together to address the root of poverty and conflict in island communities. Tausug women…
Afghanistan: At Least 19 Killed after Flash Floods in Western Afghanistan
May 5, 2021
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Anadolu Agency
At least 19 people were killed in flash floods caused by heavy downpour in Afghanistan's western Herat province, the country's officials said Tuesday. Heavy rains…
Kelly Bridges
JD Candidate
University of Chicago Law School
United States
May 4, 2021
Kelly Bridges is the Senior Associate at Global Water 2020, where she supports water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) advocacy work throughout the developing world. She…
Pre-registration Notice: Symposium with Three 2-Hour Meetings in June 2021 on Securing Clean Water in Transboundary Indus, Jordan, Mekong and Amazon Basins through Science and Environmental Diplomacy
May 4, 2021
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University of Vermont and Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Participants in this Road to Geneva symposium will deliberate upon ongoing community-based science and environmental diplomacy approaches to identify cooperative, yet feasible scientific, technological, legal,…
Iraq: Circular Solution to Mosul’s Conflict Debris Launched
May 4, 2021
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UN Environment Programme
Mosul – Iraq’s second largest city – suffered massive devastation during the conflict with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). An estimated…
Myanmar: Political Instability Puts Myanmar’s Biggest Mangrove Forest at Risk
May 4, 2021
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Burma News International
Wun Paik mangrove forest, the biggest of its kind in Myanmar, has seen increased logging since the military coup in February, according to Ramree Township…
Examining the Interconnected Threats to a Biodiversity Hotspot in Columbia
May 3, 2021
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Daniel Henryk Rasolt
Sumapaz is the world's largest páramo — a type of high-altitude moorland ecosystem found in the South and Central American neotropics that functions as a…
In Colombia, Indigenous Lands Are Ground Zero for a Wind Energy Boom
May 3, 2021
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María Paula Rubiano
The northernmost tip of South America, home to the Indigenous Wayúu people, is the epicenter of Colombia’s nascent wind energy industry. But Wayúu leaders are…
“Land Is Now the Biggest Gun”: Climate Change, Conflict, and the Telling Case of Karamoja, Uganda
May 3, 2021
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Daniel Abrahams
Whether and how climate change drives conflict has driven considerable debate over the past decade. Yet understandings of climate-conflict remain general, and in many respects,…
Syria: Environment and Climate Change Programme Officer (based in Jordan)
May 2, 2021
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ACTED
Since 1993, as an international non-governmental organization, ACTED has been committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity,…