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Myanmar: Fatal Landslide Raises Alarms over Myanmar’s Natural Disaster Preparedness

Aug 20, 2019 | San Yamin Aung, Irrawaddy

In the blink of an eye, a massive landslide washed it all away: homes, vehicles, people—all buried deep beneath the mud at the base of…

Myanmar: Indigenous Communities in Myanmar Take Action against Top-Down Conservation

Aug 20, 2019 | Anirudha Nagar, Diplomat

The need to put indigenous peoples at the center of conservation efforts could not be clearer. Evidence is mounting that indigenous stewardship of natural resources is key…

Gender-based Violence Service Expert (Canadians Only)

Aug 19, 2019 | CUSO International

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Tharthi Myay Foundation's mission is to promote social justice and the rule of law in…

Intern - Disasters and Conflicts Programme

Aug 19, 2019 | UN Environment

The United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the…

Intern - Programme Support

Aug 19, 2019 | United Nations Environment Programme

Org. Setting and Reporting
The United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent…

Intern - Programme Support

Aug 19, 2019 | United Nations Environment Programme

Org. Setting and Reporting
The United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent…

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Officer (Gender Focus)

Aug 19, 2019 | EarthRights International

EarthRights International is a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization that combines the power of law and the power of people in defense of human rights and the…

Gender for evaluation of Islamic Relief Afghanistan’s home based education for women project

Aug 19, 2019 | Islamic Relief

Islamic Relief implements a wide range of education projects globally in humanitarian, conflict and development contexts. Examples of type of education related projects and interventions…

Of Pine Trees & Payloads: Environmental Damage during an Armed Conflict

Aug 19, 2019 | Sonia Ahmad

Following the recent armed stand-off between two nuclear-armed states with a combined population of 1.5 billion people earlier this year, the felling of 15 pine…

Colombia: Indigenous Yukpa Besieged by Deforestation and Armed Conflict

Aug 19, 2019 | Julián Sáenz and Semana Sostenible, Mongabay

There is still hope in the innocent eyes of Yukpa children. They play, laugh, and jump about, despite the difficulties their people face. However, the…

Liberia: Solidaridad Certificates Young Graduates as Oil Palm Facilitators

Aug 19, 2019 | George Harris, Observer

Oil-palm is one of the emerging sectors attracting investor attention to Liberia from around the globe. The country’s oil palm market has seen an average…

DRC: Woman Killed in DR Congo Illegal Mining Crackdown

Aug 19, 2019 | Agence France-Presse

A woman was killed in clashes between subsistence miners and security forces at a Chinese-owned mine in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, sources said on…

Colombia: Meet the Chocolate Company That Is Reforming ex-Cocaine Producers through Blockchain

Aug 18, 2019 | Business Leader

Choco4Peace (C4P) is a multi-institutional movement that supports constructing and sustaining peace by generating positive socio-economic and environmental outcomes in post-conflict regions through the empowerment…

Myanmar: Microgrids Could End Energy Scarcity

Aug 16, 2019 | Samikchhya Kafle, Myanmar Times

Nyaungshwe township in southern Shan State is in dire need of clean, adequate energy. Households in Nyaungshwe make use of solar home systems for lighting…

DRC: China's Huayou Pulls out of Congo Cobalt Mine Investment after Price Slump

Aug 16, 2019 | Reuters

China’s biggest cobalt refiner Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt said on Thursday its overseas unit is pulling out a deal to invest $66.3 million in a cobalt…

South Sudan: Latest Images Reveal a Global Hotspot for Biodiversity

Aug 16, 2019 | Nathan Williams, Fauna & Flora International

Fauna & FIora International (FFI) began working in South Sudan (when it was still part of Sudan) in 2010, and over the ensuing decade has…

Myanmar: Myanmar’s Trade in Jade Now Dominated by Chinese Buyers Online

Aug 16, 2019 | Radio Free Asia

Myanmar’s trade in jade is now dominated by direct sales online, with the highly valuable stone often smuggled untaxed across the border to Chinese buyers,…

Iraq and Kuwait Are Beginning a Beautiful Friendship

Aug 15, 2019 | Bobby Gosh

Last month, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi declared that “the future prospects are far greater than the fears and obstacles between the two countries.” Earlier…

A Generation in Limbo: Protracted Refugee Situations in Kenya Must Be Addressed

Aug 15, 2019 | John Thon Majok

The 1951 Refugee Convention spells out refugee rights, including the right to freedom of movement. Yet 68 years later, 15.9 million people are trapped in prolonged exile,…

Afghanistan: Pomegranate Products Increase in Afghanistan's Poppy Growing Helmand Province

Aug 15, 2019 | Xinhua

The products of pomegranate is going to increase in the poppy growing Helmand province. The product of pomegranate in Helmand, would increase from 20,000 tons…

Myanmar: A Deadly Fight in Magway Region for the Ayeyarwady’s 'Gold'

Aug 15, 2019 | Hein Thar, Frontier Myanmar

Villagers in Magway Region have blamed a riverside clash that left at least 30 people dead on an inadequate response by government officials to a…

Afghanistan/Iran: Hamoun Wetland Restoration Plan Prepared

Aug 14, 2019 | Tehran Times

In the last two decades, once fertile wetlands have drastically dried up. The Taliban government closed the sluices to the Kajaki dam on the Helmand…

Toda Pacific Declaration on Climate Change, Conflict and Peace

Aug 13, 2019 | Toda Peace Institute

In September 2018, the Toda Peace Institute and the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (University of Otago, New Zealand) conducted a workshop on…

China/Vietnam/South China Sea: Chinese Ship Returns to Vietnam's Exclusive Economic Zone

Aug 13, 2019 | James Pearson and Khanh Vu, Reuters

A Chinese survey ship returned to Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone off its coast on Tuesday, ship tracking data showed, less than a week after it…

Myanmar: New Report: Proposed Myanmar Dam Could Displace Thousands

Aug 13, 2019 | Leonie Kijewski, Al Jazeera

Myanmar government officials claim a hydroelectricity project along the Tanintharyi River could significantly benefit the Southeast Asian nation. But new research by a trio of human…

Colombia: Study Details Links between Coca, Conflict, Deforestation in Colombia

Aug 13, 2019 | Brooks Hays, United Press International

Sometimes, trees fall down on their own, but deforestation is fueled by human activities. In Colombia, those activities sometimes involve coca, the crop from which…

Seeking Submissions for Best Student Paper in Environmental Peacebuilding Award (Deadline: August 20, 2019)

Aug 12, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association is excited to announce that we are seeking submissions for the Best Student Paper in Environmental Peacebuilding to be presented at the First…

MOOC on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace (Self-Paced Format, Starting September 23, 2019)

Aug 12, 2019 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Over the past two years, the massive open online course (MOOC) on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace has attracted more than 17,000 participants from 176 countries…

In Search of Consensus on Climate-Conflict Links

Aug 12, 2019 | Cullen Hendrix and John O'Laughlin

What do we (think we) know about the links between climate change and armed conflict? Early attempts to theorize what climate-related conflict might look like…

Myanmar: Beyond Myitsone: The Sleeping Chipwi Hydropower Project

Aug 12, 2019 | Ye Mon, Frontier

While the Chipwi dam project is still many years away from completion, what remains at the remote work site is testament to the scale of…