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Securing Women’s Land Rights: A Pathway to Food Security
Jun 5, 2025
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Sunaina Kumar
Observer Research Foundation
Despite playing a central role in food systems, women lack secure land rights in more than half of all countries, posing serious implications for food…
Nepal: Centring Women’s Knowledge and Leadership in Nepal’s Climate Response
Jun 5, 2025
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Manjeeta Gurung
UN Women Asia and the Pacific
Indira Dhital, a local woman leader from Kavre, central Nepal, recently recited this poem at the culmination of a UN Women project focused on building…
Sierra Leone Charts a New Diamond Story
Jun 5, 2025
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Jill Newman
Sierra Leone is historically rich in diamond deposits. They are found largely in alluvial mines, where miners sift through layers of mud and gravel for…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Erbil Rejects Oil Smuggling Accusations as Tensions with Baghdad Escalate
Jun 5, 2025
Rudaw
The Kurdistan Region’s natural resources ministry on Thursday rejected accusations by Iraq’s oil ministry of smuggling crude and failing to cooperate on oil handover. It…
South Sudan: South Sudan Imposes Emergency as Herder Clashes Kill Hundreds
Jun 5, 2025
Agence France-Presse
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir on Thursday declared a state of emergency in areas hit by deadly inter-communal clashes over cattle raids that have killed…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Erbil-Baghdad Tensions Escalate over Oil Production
Jun 5, 2025
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Wladimir van Wilgenburg
S&P Global Commodity Insights
The Iraqi Federal Ministry of Oil called on the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to immediately hand over regional oil production on June 5, accusing the…
Afghanistan: UN Warns: Afghanistan’s Water Crisis and Lack of Green Spaces Threaten Lives
Jun 4, 2025
Hasht-e-Subh Daily
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has issued a warning regarding environmental degradation and the consequences of climate change in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan: Plundering Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth: Global Silence and Environmental Destruction
Jun 4, 2025
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Ahmad Tamim Azimi
Hasht-e-Subh Daily
Afghanistan is a land rich in underground resources—an abundance that, in terms of value and diversity, could form the backbone of its national economy and…
New UN Review Highlights Youth Role in Climate, Peace, and Security
Jun 4, 2025
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Tara Abhasakun
Peace News
Across the globe, 698 million young people between the ages of 15 and 35 live in fragile and conflict-affected settings, according to the United Nations…
Georgia: Consultant, Enabling Actions to Address Challenges of Environmental Migration in Georgia
Jun 3, 2025
International Organization for Migration
Support the compilation of best practices on the migration, environment, and climate change (MECC) nexus mainstreaming and implementation of a case study to assess the…
Canada: Assembly of First Nations Releases 2025 Progress Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice, Highlighting Human Trafficking Crisis
Jun 3, 2025
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The Assembly of First Nations
The Assembly of First Nations
(June 3, 2025 – Unceded Algonquin Territory, Ottawa) – On the sixth anniversary of the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered…
Colombia: Peace Has Long Been Elusive in Rural Colombia - Black Women’s Community Groups Try to Bring It Closer Each Day
Jun 3, 2025
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Tania Lizarazo
MSN
It’s been almost nine years since Colombia celebrated a landmark peace agreement between one guerrilla group and the government, and three years since President Gustavo Petro vowed “total…
Liberia: RICCE Program Manager Urges Passage of Oil Palm Development Bill to Empower Women and Communities
Jun 3, 2025
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GNNLiberia
GNNLiberia
The Program Manager of the Rural Integrated Center for Community Empowerment (RICCE), Madam Renee N. Gibson, has called for the submission and passage of the…
Iraq/Kurdistan: 'Oil Law Key to Ending Baghdad-Erbil Standoff,' Says Iraq's Ruling Shiite Bloc
Jun 3, 2025
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Kamaran Aziz
Kurdistan24
Iraq’s Coordination Framework urged swift passage of the stalled Oil and Gas Law to resolve Erbil-Baghdad disputes and called for constitutional solutions to the Kurdistan…
Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal Sparks Water Security Concerns in Central Asia
Jun 3, 2025
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Sadokat Jalolova
Times of Central Asia
Afghanistan is rapidly advancing construction of the Qosh Tepa Canal, a large-scale water infrastructure project in the north of the country that could have far-reaching…
Global Survey of Women Building Peace and Security
Jun 2, 2025
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Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security
Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security
Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security is working to build a data set of information about the work of women peacebuilders around the world…
Protecting the Environment Is Protecting Civilians, Key Take-aways
Jun 2, 2025
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PAX
In conflict zones across the globe, civilians continue to suffer the devastating environmental consequences of armed conflicts, which directly and indirectly affect their health, safety,…
Give Peace a Chance? Why Sustainability Requires More Than Stability
Jun 2, 2025
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Richard Marcantonio
Conflict and environmental risks are both on the rise around the world, and they’re often connected in complex ways. In the past five years, the…
Colombia: Aiming a Blow at Narcos, Colombia Pays Farmers to Uproot Coca
Jun 2, 2025
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David Salazar
Agence France-Presse
With cocaine production at an all-time high, Colombia's government is testing a pacific approach to its narcotics problem: paying farmers to uproot crops of coca,…
Afghanistan: Taliban Award Mining Contracts Worth over $2.6 Billion in Five Months
Jun 2, 2025
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Yasin Shayan
Amu TV
Taliban have awarded four major mining contracts valued at approximately 180 billion Afghanis (about $2.6 billion) over the past five months, according to a review…
Nigeria: Nigeria Bets on Farming-Based Reintegration Plan to Tackle Rural Insecurity
Jun 2, 2025
Ecofin Agency
The Nigerian government is stepping up efforts to curb insecurity by shifting part of its strategy away from the battlefield and toward the farm. On…
Afghanistan: Taliban's 'Green Force' Battles Illegal Logging in Afghanistan's Vanishing Forests [Video]
Jun 1, 2025
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Osama Bin Javaid
Al Jazeera
Afghanistan’s forests have shrunk dramatically due to decades of illegal logging by armed groups, with only 10% of tree cover remaining in some areas. The…
Iraq: Black Gold, Broken Promises: Basra's Youth Demand Justice amid Oil Profits and Pollution
Jun 1, 2025
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Kamaran Aziz
Kurdistan 24
Petroleum graduates in Basra protest joblessness amid oil wealth, corruption, and pollution. Security forces crack down as locals suffer from toxic gas flaring. Calls grow…
DRC: Legal Action over Huge DR Congo Lithium Project on Hold as US Battles China’s Dominance
Jun 1, 2025
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Jevans Nyabiage
South China Morning Post
Australia’s AVZ Minerals has suspended its arbitration case against the Democratic Republic of Congo until later this month, following US encouragement to resolve the dispute…
Afghanistan: Trespassers on Their Land: Nomads Displaced by Afghanistan’s Conservation Zones
May 31, 2025
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Manija Mirzaie
Fair Planet
Kuchi herders of Afghanistan have for centuries lived in harmony with the land, migrating seasonally in search of grazing pastures for their livestock. Today, conservation…
Austria/Slovenia: Only Two European States Have Net Zero Military Emissions Target, Data Shows
May 31, 2025
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Ajit Niranjan
Guardian
Just two of 30 European countries have set a date to stop their militaries from emitting planet-heating emissions, a Guardian analysis has found, raising concerns…
Sweden: OSCE Workshop Tackles Gender, Climate, Security
May 30, 2025
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Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Mirage News
How gender intersects with climate-related security risks was one of the questions explored by experts and practitioners at the "Gendered Perspectives on Climate and Security:…
Soaring Global Military Spending Threatens Global Climate Action
May 30, 2025
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Ellie Kinney
No matter which way you look at it, the rapid rises in global military spending threaten climate action, undermining our collective security. A new joint…
United Kingdom: UK Must Consider Food and Climate Part of National Security, Say Top ex-Military Figures
May 30, 2025
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Matthew Taylor
Guardian
Former military leaders are urging the UK government to widen its definition of national security to include climate, food and energy measures in advance of…
Myanmar Opium Production: War-Displaced Turn to Poppy Cultivation to Survive [Video]
May 30, 2025
Al Jazeera
Myanmar is on track for another year of record opium production, after overtaking Afghanistan as the largest producer in the world. The number of farmers…