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South Sudan: South Sudan's Gold Export Earnings Sink Due to COVID-19: Official
Jun 4, 2020
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Ghana News Agency
South Sudan said on Wednesday its monthly gold export earnings to the Arab world have plummeted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Akol Ayii Madut, director…
Sierra Leone: Destitute Diamond Diggers: Artisanal Diamond Miners in Sierra Leone Struggle for Survival
Jun 4, 2020
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Emma Black, Politico
“Artisanal mining” means mining operations must be less than ten metres deep, less than one acre and only rudimentary hand-held tools can be used. The…
Conflict Minerals: Trucking-Related Companies Find It Difficult to Identify 'Conflict Minerals' in Supply Chains
Jun 4, 2020
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Eric Miller, Transit Topics
It has been more than six years since America’s public companies began searching for African “conflict minerals” throughout their complex supply chains, with the goal…
Saving the Environment, Saving People and Building Peace
Jun 4, 2020
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PAX
PAX is highlighting the importance of environment and conflict as it marks World Environment Day. Around the world, citizens, grass-roots activists, United Nations organisations, faith…
How Does War Damage the Environment?
Jun 4, 2020
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Doug Weir
We’re often asked how armed conflicts harm the environment. In this blog we try to provide as many different examples of harms as we can.…
ICL and Environmental Protection Symposium: Can Ecocide Save the Planet? An International Crime of Climate Change
Jun 3, 2020
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Kate Mackintosh
The appeal of using international criminal law to protect the environment is intuitive: the destruction of our environment poses the greatest contemporary threat to the…
Fighting the Climate Battle
Jun 3, 2020
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Jane Ahern, The Madras Pioneer
A local woman's dedication to family traditions, community service and social justice has led to what she describes as her dream job. Madras resident Katherine…
Myanmar: Southern Myanmar’s Indigenous Groups Say the UN Should Scrap $21 Million Conservation Plan
Jun 3, 2020
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Skylar Lindsay, ASEAN Today
Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region is among the most vibrantly biodiverse places in Asia. The southern tail of kite-shaped Myanmar, Tanintharyi encompasses hundreds of islands in the…
Myanmar: Myanmar Condemns Report on Illegal Teak Exports to EU
Jun 3, 2020
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Thiha Lwin, Irrawaddy
Myanmar’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation has disputed the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)’s latest report which claims illegal teak from Myanmar is…
CEOBS’ STEM Schools Programme for 2020-2021
Jun 3, 2020
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
One of the main aims of the STEM programme is to allow students to gain first hand exposure to scientists and practitioners working within their…
ICL and Environmental Protection Symposium: Environmental Crimes against Humanity
Jun 2, 2020
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Darryl Robinson
In this post, the author argues that mass harms to humans, directly produced through harms to their environment, can in principle satisfy the existing definition…
ICL and Environmental Protection Symposium: Establishing Facts for Strategic Climate Litigation through Private-Public Partnerships
Jun 2, 2020
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Reinhold Gallmetzer
Climate change is the defining issue of this generation, and the present moment is that issue’s defining moment. The potential and actual consequences of climate…
Myanmar: Recovering an Underwater Forest of Lost Teak
Jun 2, 2020
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Clare Sidwell, SuperyachtNews
Thirty years ago, Bob Steber, managing director at Ginnacle Import - Export Pte Ltd., initiated a project in Burma that recovered 2,000 teak logs and…
Colombia: ‘Stigmatized, Segregated, Forgotten’: Colombia’s Poor Being Evicted Despite Lockdowns
Jun 2, 2020
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Joe Parkin Daniels and Nadège Mazars, Guardian
Hundreds of Bogotá’s poorest residents are caught between two brutal forces: a nationwide quarantine that makes working impossible and authorities forcing people from homes they…
Sudan: Expanding Wheat Farming in Sudan
Jun 1, 2020
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UNDP
Bread is an essential commodity in Sudan and a staple for millions. Affordability and limited supply are crucial issues; rising costs have sparked protests in…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Faces Humanitarian Disaster as COVID-19 Spreads Undetected, Warns the IRC
Jun 1, 2020
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International Rescue Committee
As confirmed COVID-19 cases grew 684% in May, many more cases are going untested throughout Afghanistan. Decades of conflict have left millions facing severe food…
Nigeria: Security Manager
Jun 1, 2020
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Winrock International
Winrock International works with people around the world to increase economic opportunity, sustain natural resources, and protect the environment. Winrock matches innovative approaches in agriculture,…
Nigeria: Emergency Preparedness and Response Coordinator
Jun 1, 2020
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International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization.
The conflict in North East Nigeria has displaced over 1.9 million people…
Guinea: Basic Analysis Study of the Migration, Environment, and Climate Change
Jun 1, 2020
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International Organization for Migration
The International Organization for Migration is an intergovernmental organization that provides services and advice concerning migration to governments and migrants, including internally displaced persons, refugees,…
Somalia: Programme Advisor, Climate Smart Economic Empowerment
Jun 1, 2020
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Norwegian Church Aid
Norwegian Church Aid is an independent humanitarian and ecumenical organization with headquarters in Oslo, Norway. Norwegian Church Aid works together with people and organizations across…
Colombia: Country Manager for the South America Regional Initiative for Transnational Conservation Crimes Program
Jun 1, 2020
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Chemonics
Chemonics International, Inc. is a private international development consulting firm. Chemonics seeks a Colombia country manager for the anticipated USAID-funded South America Regional Initiative for…
DRC: Food Security and Agriculture Advisor
Jun 1, 2020
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40…
CAR: Field Coordinator
Jun 1, 2020
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Triangle Génération Humanitaire
Founded in 1994, Triangle Génération Humanitaire, a French association of international solidarity based in Lyon, designs and implements emergency, rehabilitation and development programs in the…
Iraq: WASH Program Manager
Jun 1, 2020
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Solidarités International
The SI mission has been opened in February 2017, with emphasis on the Mosul response. The mission in composed of one Coordination in Erbil (5…
ICL and Environmental Protection Symposium: The Environmental Crisis–Cases for ‘Particular Consideration’ at the ICC
Jun 1, 2020
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Richard J. Rogers
In a world consumed by the pandemic, it is easy to forget an even greater threat facing mankind – the environmental and climate emergency. The UN…
COVID-19 and climate change will change the definition of national security
Jun 1, 2020
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Stewart M. Patrick
The twin global emergencies of COVID-19 and climate change are forcing the U.S. foreign policy establishment to reassess its traditional conceptions of national security. According…
Symposium on the Use of International Criminal Law to Protect the Environment
Jun 1, 2020
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Kate Mackintosh
Despite the brief drop in emissions at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic last month, the climate crisis continues to present one of the greatest…
Time to Move Beyond Yemen’s SAFER Oil Tanker Blame Game
Jun 1, 2020
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Doug Weir
The SAFER Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) terminal is a forty-year-old single hulled supertanker moored 7km off the coast of Yemen. Since the Houthis took…
Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam: A Last Chance for Diplomacy
Jun 1, 2020
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Yaseen Mohmad Abdalla
The dispute between Egypt and Sudan on the one side, and Ethiopia on the other, about filling and operating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)…
Syria: Country Director, based in Jordan
Jun 1, 2020
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Solidarités International
Solidarités International is a non-profit organization working in areas of conflict and natural disasters. Its main aim is to provide quick and effective support for…