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USA: Internships, Environmental Change and Security Program

Jul 21, 2022 | Wilson Center

The Wilson Center is a nonpartisan forum bridging the divide between research and policy decisions, particularly in the context of foreign policy. Wilson Center activities…


USA: Agents of Change Youth Fellowship

Jul 21, 2022 | Wilson Center

The Wilson Center is a nonpartisan forum bridging the divide between research and policy decisions, particularly in the context of foreign policy. Wilson Center activities…


Ukraine’s Critical Minerals and Europe’s Energy Transition: A motivation for Russian Aggression?

Jul 21, 2022 | Andrei Covatariu

Europe’s long-term strategy to phase out fossil fuel use has endangered Russia’s main source of state revenue, forcing the Kremlin to focus on acquiring, one way or…


Climate Change: Why Climate Change Could Spark Conflict

Jul 21, 2022 | Jack Graham, Thomson Reuters Foundation

From record-breaking and deadly heatwaves in western Europe to a severe drought in the Horn of Africa, the impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly…


Myanmar: Myanmar Military’s Land Mine Use Amounts to War Crimes: Amnesty

Jul 20, 2022 | Agence France-Presse

Myanmar junta troops are committing war crimes by laying land mines on a “massive scale” around villages where they are battling anti-coup fighters, rights campaign…


Afghanistan/Pakistan: The Afghan Refugees Turning Barren Soil into Fertile Land in Balochistan

Jul 20, 2022 | Hazar Khan Baloch, Independent

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that there are around 300,000 people displaced in refugee camps in the southwestern region of Balochistan…


Libya: Libya Says Oil Exports Resumed after Monthslong Hiatus

Jul 20, 2022 | Samy Magdy, Associated Press

Libya resumed oil exports Wednesday, ending a hiatus that lasted months. The resumption came after the country restarted production at oil fields following the firing…


Water Diplomacy Can Learn from Realist Ideas

Jul 19, 2022 | Sumit Vij, Jeroen Warner, Mark Zeitoun, Christian Bréthaut

As Russia’s war in Ukraine continues and nations are returning to behaviors best explained by realism, we are wrestling with these trends’ longer-term implications on water…


Sudan: Sudan’s Gold Mining Effects Health of Many Due to Toxic Chemicals Left behind

Jul 19, 2022 | Middle East North Africa Financial Network

Sudanese mother Awadya Ahmed has wondered for long why her youngest kid Talab was born blind and paralyzed, now she accused the loads of toxic…


Liberia: Land Tension Sparks Again in Ganta

Jul 19, 2022 | Ishmael F. Menkor, Observer

Another wave of land tension has sparked again in Ganta just days after President George Weah and his Cabinets ended their Nimba trip. This comes…


Ukraine: Ukraine’s Farmers become the Latest Target of Russian Missiles

Jul 19, 2022 | Dalton Bennett, Washington Post

Fires are the latest scourge that farmers face in the Mykolaiv region. With the planting season delayed by fighting to retake the area from occupying…


Somalia: For Somalia, Nature Is Key to Lasting Peace

Jul 19, 2022 | Modern Diplomacy

Just over two years ago, Christophe Hodder was selected as the first UN Climate Security and Environmental Advisor to Somalia. Since then, he had spearheaded…


Food May Be the Ultimate Weapon in the 21st Century

Jul 18, 2022 | Hal Brands

President Joe Biden’s administration is reportedly rewriting its National Security Strategy, which the White House is required to send to Congress annually, to account for the lessons…


India: In a First, Eight Women in Team of NDRF’s Rescuers

Jul 18, 2022 | The Times of India

If a pregnant woman gets stuck in any flooded area in the state and is unable to reach the hospital for delivery, now women in…


India Legislators Vote for President, Tribal Woman Likely to Win

Jul 18, 2022 | Al Jazeera


Nigeria: Terms of Reference (ToR) End Line of Girls’ Education Project in Conflict-Affected Areas in Northeastern Nigeria (International Consultant).

Jul 17, 2022 | Save the Children

The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children…


Mozambique: Project Officer, Women, Peace, and Security

Jul 17, 2022 | UN Women

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women, is a United Nations entity working for gender…


Consultancy: Identify Priority Issues and Actions Necessary for Strengthening the Role of Women in Conservation of Aquatic Biodiversity and Environmental Management in Africa

Jul 17, 2022 | African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources

The African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), a specialized technical office of the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment…


Syria and Iraq: International Consultancy, Developing Knowledge Papers Related to the Repatriation, Rehabilitation, and Reintegration of Women Returnees from Conflict Zones

Jul 17, 2022 | UN Women

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women, is a United Nations entity working for gender…


Switzerland: Programme Manager, Gender and Climate Change

Jul 17, 2022 | Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance

Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance is dedicated to improving the security of states and their people within a framework of democratic governance, the rule…


New Legal Protections for the Environment in relation to Armed Conflict

Jul 16, 2022 | Karen Hulme and Elizabeth B. Hessami

Nature and conservation are inevitably harmed during armed conflict. The recent adoption by the International Law Commission (a legal body within the United Nations) of…


Afghanistan: Taliban Again Raise Coal Prices amid Booming Exports to Pakistan

Jul 16, 2022 | Ayaz Gul, Voice of America

Afghanistan’s cash-strapped Taliban government has tripled prices for coal in less than a month to raise revenue from its mining sector amid a lack of…


Venezuela: A Safe Space for Venezuela’s Indigenous Women

Jul 16, 2022 | UN News


What’s in a Name? Making the Case for the Sahel Conflict as “Eco-Violence”

Jul 15, 2022 | Olumba Ezenwa

The Sahel region of Africa is a semi-arid, arc-shaped landmass that stretches 3,860 kilometres from Senegal across portions of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and even…


Colombia: JEP Receives the Report 'Women: Dispossessed Bodies and Territories in Bajo Atrato'

Jul 15, 2022 | Nick Quaz

Before the Chamber for the Recognition of Truth, Responsibility and Determination of Facts and Conduct of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) was handed over in…


Myanmar: China-backed Illegal Rare Earth Mining Surging in Northern Myanmar

Jul 15, 2022 | Yan Naing, Irrawaddy

Illegal rare earth mining has surged in northern Kachin State since last year’s coup in areas along the border with China controlled by a militia…


Afghanistan: Cash-Strapped Taliban 'Exploiting' Afghanistan's Natural Resources to Boost Revenue

Jul 15, 2022 | Abubakar Siddique, Gandhara

Cash-strapped and cut off from international aid, the Taliban-led government is tapping into Afghanistan's natural resources to boost revenue. Since the Taliban toppled the Western-backed…


How Climate Change Could Drive an Increase in Gender-Based Violence

Jul 14, 2022 | Meghie Rodrigues

As extreme weather events occur more frequently — something that climate scientists say is inevitable — so, too, will violence towards women and people from…


Bangladesh: Cash Grants and Training Empower Women in the Face of Climate Change

Jul 14, 2022 | World Food Programme

Faced with land erosion, rising seas and frequent cyclones, islanders in Kutubdia and Moheskhali need continued support from the World Food Programme.


Colombia: $245-Million Initiative to Create and Maintain Protected Areas in Colombia

Jul 14, 2022 | Maxwell Radwin, Mongabay

A new multi-million-dollar conservation initiative in Colombia aims to create numerous new protected areas and biological corridors across the country, bringing it closer to meeting…