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Corona Impact: Gender Pay Gap Likely to Get Worse as More Women Get Laid Off, Take Time off Work

Mar 31, 2020 | Christine Murray

MEXICO CITY: Advances in closing the worldwide gender pay gap are at risk of being reversed by the coronavirus, experts and advocates warn, as women…

How Gum Acacia Trees Could Help Build Peace in the Sahel

Mar 30, 2020 | Ousseyni Kalilou

A special type of tree could facilitate peacebuilding in the Sahel. A stretch of semi-arid land south of the Sahara that runs from the Red…

India: India's Women Seaweed Divers Swim Against the Tide of Climate Change

Mar 30, 2020 | Anuradha Nagaraj, Reuters

Ramanathapuram, India - In a blue plastic barrel, Meenakshi Mookupori packed her belongings for a five-day stay on an island in the Indian Ocean, off…

Iraq: Iraq Has $70bn in Reserves to Keep Economy Afloat for 6 Months to a Year: MP

Mar 28, 2020 | Zhelwan Z. Wali, Rudaw

Baghdad can weather the economic impact of coronavirus and the collapse of world oil prices for six months to a year by dipping into foreign…

Earth Hour Reminds us Tackling Climate Change Needs Gender Equality

Mar 27, 2020 | Kalpana Giri

Forests are vital to tackling climate change. But if we are to succeed in our efforts to save the Earth, we must think beyond conservation,…

Chitra Nagarajan on What’s Changed for Women in Lake Chad Region

Mar 27, 2020 | Wania Yad

“Women and men face very different risks and challenges,” said Chitra Nagarajan, a writer and journalist who covers climate change, conflict, and gender. She spoke in…

Myanmar: Villagers Rue Land Loss and Pollution From Copper Mine in Myanmar [Video]

Mar 27, 2020 | Radio Free Asia

Seven years after then-opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi first promised to address the impact of the Chinese-operated Letpadaung copper mine that had sparked violent…

Beyond Title: How to Secure Land Tenure for Women

Mar 26, 2020 | Celine Salcedo-La Vina

The international community now fully recognizes the need to secure women’s land rights. The Sustainable Development Goals, the world’s blueprint for development, include women’s land ownership…

The Future of Climate Change and Peace

Mar 26, 2020 | Maxine Burkett and Maya Soetoro-Ng

As fires rage in Australia and in the Amazon, hurricanes ravage the Caribbean year after year, and glacial melt threatens entire communities in the high…

Colombia: Colombia Is Using an App to Return Land to People Displaced by War

Mar 26, 2020 | Ritoban Mukherjee, Quartz

An analytics and mapping software called ArcGIS allows parties to analyze and share data, created by the global geographic imaging system (GIS) firm Esri. Essentially,…

Women and Peace and Security in the Time of Corona

Mar 25, 2020 | Sanam Naraghi Anderlini

2020: It was always going to be a big year for the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda; twenty years since the UN Security Council’s…

Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq's KRG Delays Oil Payments with Cash Stuck in Lebanese Bank: Sources

Mar 25, 2020 | Dania Saadi and Katie McQue, S&P Global Platts

The oil ministry of Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq has been unable to pay energy companies operating in the semi-autonomous region because its cash has…

Women Lose Most from the Climate Crisis. How Can we Empower Them?

Mar 24, 2020 | Tharanga Gunawardena

Extreme climate events are increasingly threatening countries and livelihoods. Devastating natural disasters and unpredictable weather have made communities more vulnerable and impoverished, especially women. According…

Colombia: National Parks Pay the Price as Land Conflicts Intensify in Colombia

Mar 24, 2020 | Taran Volckhausen, Mongabay

Since the demobilization of the FARC in 2016, deforestation has skyrocketed in the region, most notably in Tinigua Natural National Park. Deforestation shot up 400%…

Honduras: Honduras’s Deadly Water Wars

Mar 24, 2020 | Jared Olson, Nation

Here, in the heart of Carlos Escaleras National Park, at the head of dozens of rivers, a deadly water conflict is playing out between the…

Colombia: Colombian Death Squads Exploiting Coronavirus Lockdown to Kill Activists

Mar 24, 2020 | Joe Parkin Daniels, Guardian

Death squads in Colombia are taking advantage of coronavirus lockdowns to murder rural activists, local NGOs have warned. Colombia is one of the most dangerous…

COVID-19 and the Environmental Peacebuilding Knowledge Platform

Mar 24, 2020 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

As we collectively continue through an extraordinary public health emergency, we recognize that the everyone's lives and routines are in flux.  We are all striving to cope with a…

Syria: Amid Syria’s Civil War, a Rise in Miscarriages Among Displaced Women in the Northeast

Mar 23, 2020 | Nicola Pardy

Kobane, Syria—Miscarriages have surged among displaced women in northeastern Syria over the last several months, according to a report released in January by Women Defend Rojava. As the…

Liberia: New Report Unveils Alarming Exploitation in Timber Industry

Mar 23, 2020 | William Q. Harmon, Observer

A damning new report has detailed the terrible working conditions akin to forced labor in Liberia’s timber industry across the country, where many young, poor…

South Sudan: South Sudan Delays Oil and Gas Bidding Round

Mar 23, 2020 | Anine Killian, Africa Oil & Power

South Sudan’s Ministry of Petroleum has suspended the country’s oil and gas licensing round – which was due to take place in March – as…

Ukraine: Water under Fire in Europe’s Forgotten War [Video]

Mar 23, 2020 | Frederick Gillingham, New Humanitarian

Six years after conflict erupted in April 2014 between Russian-backed separatists and the Ukrainian military in eastern Ukraine, the war makes few headlines but isn’t…

Iraq: Coronavirus Damages Iraqi Economy with Fall in Tourism, Oil Prices

Mar 23, 2020 | Omar al-Jaffal, Al-Monitor

As of March 23, Iraq had registered 266 novel coronavirus cases, with 23 deaths. Although Iraq is much better off than many other countries, the fast-growing number of cases…

Afghanistan: Afghanistan Forest Grown by Concern Worldwide Reaping Huge Rewards Two Decades on

Mar 23, 2020 | Kevin Jenkinson, Irish Mirror

A decision by an Irish charity to grow a forest and vegetable plot in the middle of a war in Afghanistan has reaped huge rewards…

Chad: Project Manager Radio Ndarason Internationale

Mar 23, 2020 | Okapi Consulting

Okapi Consulting gets people talking to each other in conflict zones and fragile states. We are a leader in innovative media and research projects across…

Myanmar: Technical Consultant for Water Stewardship Project

Mar 23, 2020 | World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of wilderness preservation, and the reduction of…

Sudan: Head of Mission

Mar 23, 2020 | Cooperazione Internazionale

Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI) is an Italian humanitarian non-governmental organization founded in Milan in 1965. COOPI aims to help the world’s poorest to improve their access…

Libya: National Consultant Specialist on Cost-Benefit Analysis

Mar 23, 2020 | 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…

Yemen: Office Associate

Mar 23, 2020 | 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…

Kabul River for Peace and Development

Mar 23, 2020 | Nisar A. Memon

Kabul River (KR) is key resource for large territory of both Pakistan and Afghanistan. About 10 percent of Pakistan’s total water supply comes from the…

Myanmar: Program Specialist

Mar 23, 2020 | Pact

At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow. A nonprofit international development organization founded in 1971, Pact works on the ground…