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USA: Climate Policy Associate, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS), School of Foreign Service (SFS) — Georgetown University

Jul 6, 2023 | Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Policy Associate to advance the mission of centering women in all…


USA: Systems Analysis of Climate Impacts, Crisis, and Fragility

Jul 6, 2023 | International Rescue Committee

The IRC works to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future…


Sudan: WASH Program Development Manager Kosti, Sudan

Jul 6, 2023 | Norwegian Refugee Council

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. It works in crises across more than 31 countries, providing…


Syria: Food Security, Nutrition and Livelihood Coordinator - based in SYR-Damas

Jul 6, 2023 | Première Urgence Internationale

Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) works in 10 areas of intervention and distinguishes itself by the implementation of an integrated approach in its response. This method…


Syria: WASH Program Manager (m/f) - Raqqa

Jul 6, 2023 | Solidarités International

SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL (SI) is an international humanitarian aid association which, since more than 40 years, has been providing assistance to populations affected by armed conflicts and…


Ukraine: Cluster WASH Coordinator (m/f) - Dnipro

Jul 6, 2023 | Solidarités International

The purpose of this position is to support the Dnipro WASH sub cluster  in ensuring an impartial, well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by…


Ukraine: Programme Policy Officer (In-kind) SC9 | Kyiv, Ukraine

Jul 6, 2023 | United Nations World Food Program

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability…


Syria: WASH Specialist

Jul 6, 2023 | Norwegian Refugee Council

The Norwegian Refugee Council has been working in Syria since 2015, implementing Shelter, WASH, Capacity Building, Education and most recently Livelihoods and food security interventions…


Ukraine: Program Analyst (Environment) (Ukraine nationals)

Jul 6, 2023 | UNDP

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP:  UNDP values diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where it operates,…


South Sudan: WASH Specialist (South Sudan nationals)

Jul 6, 2023 | Save the Children

Save the Children employs approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises,…


Ethiopia: WASH Specialist (Emergency - Roving)

Jul 6, 2023 | United Nations Children's Fund

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To…


Afghanistan’s Women in Agriculture Face Limitations and Challenges

Jul 5, 2023 | Hasht-e-Subh Daily

Taliban's return to power has made things worse for them.


Afghanistan’s Women in Agriculture Face Limitations and Challenges

Jul 5, 2023 | Hasht-e-Subh Daily

Taliban's return to power has made things worse for them.


Afghanistan: 151 Dead, 200 Injured Due to Natural Disasters in Past Three Months

Jul 5, 2023 | Asian News International

Taliban's State Minister for Disaster Management has announced that at least 151 people have died and more than 200 others injured in different parts of…


Colombia: Effort to Save Rare Colombian Monkey Looks to Crowdfund Its Conservation

Jul 5, 2023 | Aimee Gabay, Mongabay

For 38 years, Colombian-based NGO Fundación Proyecto Tití has successfully run a reforestation program to protect the critically endangered cotton-top tamarin and its tropical dry…


Liberia: Eight Communities Issued Statutory Titled Land Deeds

Jul 5, 2023 | New Dawn

The Government of Liberia through the Liberia Land Authority (LLA) on June 23, 2023, officially issued statutory land-titled deeds and maps to eight customary communities…


Ukraine/Russia: Warnings of Sabotage at Nuclear Plant

Jul 5, 2023 | Usaid Siddiqui, Priyanka Shankar and Arwa Ibrahim, Al Jazeera

The Kremlin has warned that the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is tense, claiming there is a “great threat of sabotage from Kyiv”.…


The Taliban’s New Canal Threatens Water Security in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan

Jul 5, 2023 | Niginakhon Saida

On March 30, 2022, Taliban Deputy Prime Minister Mulla Abdul Ghani Baradar launched the construction of the Qosh Tepa canal, which will divert significant amount…


Taking Action for a Flourishing Land: Latin American Voices Prioritize Climate Justice, Indigenous Rights, Gender Equality

Jul 4, 2023 | World Council of Churches

Seeking to join efforts with those committed to ensure a just and sustainable future for the continent, representatives from World Council of Churches (WCC) member…


Afghanistan: Iron Smelting Plant Opens in Kabul

Jul 4, 2023 | Habib Rahman Qooyash, TOLOnews

Some officials of the current Afghan government spoke at the factory's the opening ceremony about the Islamic Emirate leadership's unwavering support for all investors and…


The Geopolitics of Climate Change: China and the United States at the UN Security Council

Jul 4, 2023 | Homeland Security Today

Beijing has for years leveraged its status as a developing country in the Paris Agreement construct to avoid responsibility to reduce emissions as fast as…


Four Ways Women Can Help to End the Middle East's Water Crisis

Jul 3, 2023 | Sally Abi Khalil

Women In the Middle East and North Africa are too often seen as simply water consumers or as water managers just of their own households.…


Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana: Mainstreaming Gender in Climate Change Adaptation in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

Jul 3, 2023 | UN Women

As the impacts of climate change intensify around the world, adaptation efforts are crucial to ensuring that communities, ecosystems and economies are able to survive.…


Ukraine/Russia: Russia Is Accused of ‘Ecocide’ in Ukraine. But What Does That Mean?

Jul 3, 2023 | Radina Gigova, CNN

On June 6, Ukraine suffered an environmental catastrophe. The collapse of the Kakhovka dam in the south of the country sent water thundering downstream, killing…


DRC: US Measure Would Ban Products Containing Mineral Mined with Child Labor in Congo

Jul 3, 2023 | Taiwo Adebayo, Associated Press

A measure has been introduced in the U.S. House to ban imported products containing minerals critical to electric vehicle batteries but mined through child labor…


Afghanistan: Clash over Water Injures 6 in Afghanistan

Jul 3, 2023 | Xinhua

A clash over water between two families in Afghanistan's eastern Kapisa province has left six persons injured, said a statement of provincial police department released…


DRC: Protecting Congo’s Forests: New Timber Parks Will Help Fight Illegal Logging

Jul 3, 2023 | Paolo Omar Cerutti and Silvia Ferrari, Conversation

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) joined the East African Community in 2022. This will offer the country, which has immense natural wealth, a huge…


Climate Change: Symposium Focuses on Practical Solutions for Climate Security Challenges

Jul 3, 2023 | United States Africa Command

The third Security Implications of Climate Change Symposium, organized by U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM) and the U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP) in concert with the…


Afghanistan: How the Taliban Launched the ‘Most Successful Counter-Narcotics Effort in Human History’

Jul 3, 2023 | Samuel Lovett; Sarah Newey, and Ben Farmer, Telegraph

America’s “war on drugs,” launched by President Richard Nixon in 1971, raged for more than half a century but hardly put a dent in the…


The Impacts of Climate Change on South Asian Women

Jul 3, 2023 | Neha Madhira

Of the 750 million South Asians affected by at least one climate-related disaster in the last two decades, women have been disproportionately impacted. According to a recent report by…