News


Liberia: Government to Arm Rangers

Feb 1, 2019 | Emmanuel Mondaye and Jonathan Browne, New Dawn

The Management of the Forestry Development Authority is preparing to arm 45 forest rangers to protect the forest of Liberia from poachers and intruders. Deputy…


Strengthening Women's Voices in Land Decisions: What Works?

Jan 31, 2019 | Philippine Sutz

Since the mid 2000s, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced a land rush driven by factors such as rising commercial agriculture, mineral extraction and large infrastructure projects.…


Climate Change: UNSC Debates Climate Change Impact on Peace, Security and Development

Jan 31, 2019 | Catherine Benson Wahlén, International Institute for Sustainable Development

Speakers warned the UN Security Council (UNSC) of increasing threats to peace, security and development as a result of climate change during a debate on…


Myanmar: Karen Minority Urges 'Respect' in Myanmar Peace Park Initiative

Jan 30, 2019 | Sally Kantar, Al Jazeera

With a Myanmar government-backed peace process in deadlock, ethnic Karen political leaders and activists have declared thousands of square kilometers of land a "peace park"…


Afghanistan: Peace in Afghanistan? Maybe—but a Minerals Rush Is Already Underway

Jan 30, 2019 | Antony Lowenstein, Nation

The Afghan war is the addiction that Washington can’t quit. The longest war in US history, it’s a conflict that has generally fallen out of…


Afghanistan: 2 in 3 Afghan Men Think Women Have Too Many Rights

Jan 30, 2019 | Thomson Reuters Foundation

Afghan men strongly oppose giving women more freedom — 2 in 3 think they have too much already — and young men are even more reluctant than…


EnPAx Icon Call for Engaged Listeners to Attend an International Workshop on "Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflict – Beyond the ILC"

Jan 29, 2019 | Institute for International Affairs of the University of Hamburg School of Law and Faculty of Law of Lund University

The workshop is organized by the Institute for International Affairs of the University of Hamburg School of Law and Faculty of Law of Lund…


Anticipatory Intelligence: Climate Change in the National Intelligence Strategy

Jan 29, 2019 | Marisol Maddox

On January 22, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Daniel R. Coats released the National Intelligence Strategy (NIS) for 2019, which represents a departure from the…


Liberia: NGO Calls for Regulator of Agriculture Concessions

Jan 29, 2019 | FrontPage Africa

Save My Future Foundation (SAMFU), a local nongovernmental organization, is calling for a separate regulator for large-scale concessions in Liberia it says will guarantee the…


EnPAx Icon Michael Bothe

Professor Emeritus
J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
Germany
Jan 29, 2019

Michael Bothe is Professor Emeritus of Public Law at the J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. Throughout his career, he has worked on questions of international and…


Canada Research Chair in Global Policy

Jan 28, 2019 | University of British Columbia

The School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver campus, invites applications for the position of Canada Research Chair (Tier 2)…


Iraq: WASH Technical Coordinator

Jan 28, 2019 | 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,…


Afghanistan: Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene Coordinator

Jan 28, 2019 | Action Contre la Faim France

Action Against Hunger (or Action Contre La Faim (ACF) in French) is a global humanitarian organization which originated in France and is committed to ending…


Iraq: WASH Team Leader

Jan 28, 2019 | Oxfam

Oxfam's programmes address the structural causes of poverty and related injustice and work primarily through local accountable organizations, seeking to enhance their effectiveness. Oxfam's stated…


Development of a Southern Africa Development Community - Regional Migration Crisis Action Plan (SADC RMCAP)

Jan 28, 2019 | International Organization for Migration

BACKGROUND

Established in 1951, IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners.

IOM works to…


Democratic Republic of the Congo: Salonga Program Assistant

Jan 28, 2019 | World Wide Fund for Nature

I. Context and Background

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has embarked on ambitious, field-based conservation programs across the Congo Basin. In the Democratic Republic…


No Easy Path for Venezuela's Oil in the Struggle for a Transition in Power

Jan 28, 2019 | Amy Mysers Jaffe

Given the news that the United States has recognized the speaker of the democratically elected National Assembly Juan Guaido as interim President of Venezuela in…


Climate Change: Nations Recognize Warming as Threat to Peace and Security

Jan 28, 2019 | Jean Chemnick, E&E News

There's a growing global consensus that climate change is a threat to peace and security that deserves the same kind of attention afforded to terrorism…


Iraq/Kurdistan: Threat of Renewed Conflict as Tensions Rise over Kirkuk

Jan 28, 2019 | Middle East Monitor

Tension between the Iraqi political circles including the central government in Baghdad, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Iraqi Turkmen are threatening renewed conflict in…


Iraq/Kurdistan: Tensions Rekindle in Iraq’s Oil-Rich Kirkuk

Jan 27, 2019 | Azhar Al-Rubaie and Yousif Raheem, Arab Weekly

Tensions have resurfaced in the oil-rich, multi-ethnic Iraqi province of Kirkuk after a Kurdish party raised the flag of the country’s autonomous Kurdistan region over…


Climate Change: UN Security Council Divided on Climate-Security Link

Jan 26, 2019 | Agence France-Presse

Russia and the US resisted on Friday efforts by the UN Security Council to take a tougher stand on climate change -- a day after…


Remarks to the Security Council (UNDP)

Jan 25, 2019 | Achim Steiner

Open debate on the maintenance of international peace and security: addressing the impacts of climate-related disasters on international peace and security.


Conflict Minerals: Former Barrick CIO Michelle Ash to Join Blockchain Start-up

Jan 25, 2019 | Kaaria Quash, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum

Former Barrick chief innovation officer Michelle Ash joined the advisory board of Berlin-based blockchain start-up Minespider. Minespider is aiming to create a public blockchain platform…


Myanmar: Displaced Villagers Urge Permanent Halt to Myitsone Hydropower Project

Jan 25, 2019 | John Grafilo, Myanmar Times

Villagers displaced by the start of construction on the Chinese-funded Myitsone dam in Kachin State yesterday urged the government to cancel the project, which was halted…


India/Pakistan: Water Wars: Are India and Pakistan Heading for Climate Change-Induced Conflict?

Jan 25, 2019 | Melanie Hall, Deutsche Welle

Across the world, climate change is sparking conflict as people struggle over dwindling resources. The fight over water could quickly escalate between India and Pakistan…


Climate Change: Climate Change Recognized as ‘Threat Multiplier’, UN Security Council Debates Its Impact on Peace

Jan 25, 2019 | UN

As climate change is increasingly recognized as a “threat multiplier” by scientists, political representatives, and civil society across the world, the United Nations Security Council…


Iraq: Iraq Federal Supreme Court Rules Portions of National Oil Company Law Unconstitutional

Jan 24, 2019 | Erik Slobe, Jurist

Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that several articles of the Iraq National Oil Company Law were unconstitutional. The law is meant to establish the Iraq…


South Sudan: South Sudan Resumes Oil Production in Former Unity State

Jan 24, 2019 | Winnie Cirino, Voice of America

Oil is again being pumped from fields in South Sudan’s former Unity state, five years after production was halted because of fighting between government soldiers…


Myanmar: Government Approves Seizure of over 950,000 Acres of Unused Land

Jan 24, 2019 | Htoo Thant, Myanmar Times

The government has approved the seizure of more than 950,000 acres of unused vacant, fallow and virgin land that had been leased to private entities for…


Myanmar's Land Law Is a Ticking Time Bomb

Jan 23, 2019 | Thomas Chau and Fabien Daudier

The government’s March deadline of implementing the 2018 amendments to the 2012 Vacant, Fallow and Virgin (VFV) Lands Management Law has created a ticking time…