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Climate Change: How Conflict and Climate Change Are a Threat to Food Security [Video]

Nov 27, 2019 | Bloomberg

Colleen Kelly, chief operating officer of Concern Worldwide U.S., discusses the world hunger index, climate change and the threat to food security. She speaks with…

An Environmental Movement for Times of War, Too

Nov 27, 2019 | Kira Walker

Oil wells set ablaze in Iraq. Forests pillaged in Colombia. Wildlife populations decimated across the Sahara-Sahel. Around the world, armed conflicts continue to cause significant…

Women Land and Water Defenders Are the Real Peacebuilders

Nov 27, 2019 | Gabriela Jimenez

Large-scale resource extraction often perpetuates violence, even in countries with peace accords. Those who mobilize to protect the land and water to build peace are…

Deepening Our Engagement with Gender Dimensions in Agriculture

Nov 27, 2019 | Krista Jacobs

The Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) Program was delighted to partner with Agrilinks this October to raise awareness about the impacts of gender-based violence in…

Conflict Minerals: Consensus Eludes New Definition for ‘Blood Diamonds’

Nov 27, 2019 | Tribune

An attempt for a new, expanded definition of conflict diamonds eluded consensus during a meeting of the Kimberley Process countries here. India is the current…

Colombia: For Sustainable Cacao Farming in Colombia, Going Organic Is Not Necessarily the Only Good Answer

Nov 27, 2019 | Maria Eliza Villarino, International Center for Tropical Agriculture

If there’s one word that encapsulates Colombia, it is diversity. You see that in its people, you see that in its climate, and you even…

Myanmar: Villagers Protest Namtu Hydropower Project

Nov 26, 2019 | Myat Moe Aung, Myanmar Times

Residents held a protest during the visit of U Sai Sam Tip, Shan State minister for Electricity and Energy, in Talong village, which will be affected…

Lebanon: How Warming Helped Spark a Revolution in Lebanon

Nov 26, 2019 | Jennifer Hijazi, E&E News

Experts say environmental stressors, including climate change and the recent fires in the Shouf mountains, are contributing to a turbulent uprising that is still filling…

Myanmar: Wild Elephants Destroy Plantations in Myanmar's Western State

Nov 26, 2019 | Xinhua

On Oct. 21 this year, three houses were destroyed by two wild elephants' raid in the same township. It was learnt that wild elephant raids…

Climate Change: Pete Buttigieg Says Climate Change Is Our Greatest Security Threat [Video]

Nov 26, 2019 | Caitlin McFall, Daily Caller

On the campaign trail this week, presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg reiterated his belief that climate change contributed to the Syrian civil war. Speaking at a…

Women in Climate Change Hotspots Face Greater Burdens When Under Environmental Stress

Nov 26, 2019 | Suzannah Lyons

Climate change has a negative impact on women's ability to make meaningful decisions in their lives, according to new research looking at climate change hotspots…

Sleepwalking into Catastrophe - Climate Change

Nov 26, 2019 | Linda Witong

Special Advisor to SI Advocacy, Linda Witong, takes a closer look at how and why climate change aggravates inequalities and increases the risks to women…

Greater Virunga Landscape Strategy Development Consultancy

Nov 26, 2019 | World Wildlife Fund

The World Wildlife Fund network aims to develop several large-scale landscapes in Africa. One of these is the Greater Virunga Landscape. On behalf of the…

Consultant: Climate & Conflict Research & Event Coordinator

Nov 26, 2019 | 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…

Somalia: Consultancy to conduct research on climate change, conflict and peace

Nov 26, 2019 | Norwegian Church Aid

Norwegian Church Aid is a diaconal organization established in Norway to work with people around the world to eradicate poverty and injustice. Their vision is…

Three Provocative Ideas in the First Environmental Peacebuilding Conference

Nov 25, 2019 | Laura Betancur

Under the umbrella of “environmental peacebuilding”, a growing community of researchers and practitioners are framing their efforts in relating the natural environment and the peacebuilding…

FAO Stands with Generation Equality to Oppose Rape

Nov 25, 2019 | FAO

FAO is taking a stand against sexual and gender-based violence by participating in the UN Secretary-General’s campaign: UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women.

A Gender Lens is Essential to Sustaining Peace: Evidence from Mozambique

Nov 25, 2019

Despite decades of relative peace and recent efforts to promote gender equality, women and girls in Mozambique continue to experience a disproportionate amount of insecurity.…

Climate Change is Brutal for Everyone, but Worse for Women

Nov 25, 2019 | Matt Simon

The climate crisis is so epic, so vicious, so wide-reaching, that at this point there are few aspects of the human experience it isn’t transforming.…

Forest Conservation Must Address Violence Against Women

Nov 25, 2019 | Jeanette Sequeira, Juana Vera Delgado, and Ruth Nyambura

November 25th has been designated as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women by the United Nations. The day also marks the beginning…

The Ethics of Violent Conservation

Nov 25, 2019 | Dan Brockington and Rosaleen Duffy

Conservation practices and decisions have repercussions for people, and different repercussions for different people. Conservation is inevitably a human enterprise. Conservation itself – if ever…

Climate Change: Feminists Have Pushed for Marginalised Voices to Be Heard

Nov 25, 2019

As calls grow for climate action to be more responsive to frontline communities, CIVICUS spoke to Maria Nailevu, a feminist climate activist from Fiji, about…

Syria: US Occupation of Syria’s Oil Fields Is ‘Legal’ under International Law: Envoy

Nov 24, 2019 | Al-Masdar News

Washington is not doing anything illegal by securing oil fields in Syria, US Special Representative for Syria Engagement James Jeffrey told reporters on Friday. Jeffrey…

Syria: A Convoluted System for Syria’s Oil Revenues

Nov 23, 2019 | Mohamed Homs, Enab Baladi

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been confused by the decision of its American ally to withdraw from Syria, as its mission to fight and…

Colombia Must Protect the Women Risking Their Lives to Defend Black Communities

Nov 23, 2019 | Duncan Tucker

Danelly Estupiñán will never forget the first threats she received back in 2015. First came the text message declaring “Danelly, your end has come.” And…

Vietnam: Strengthen Women’s Livelihoods and Participation for Greater Resilience to Disasters and Climate Change in Viet Nam

Nov 22, 2019 | Thao Hoang, UN Women

When Tran Thi My Linh, a 51-year-old rural woman first said that she would replace her rice fields with lotus fields, she raised many eyebrows.…