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Yemen: UN Launches Public Fundraising Drive to Prevent Yemen Tanker Oil Spill
Jun 13, 2022
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Reuters
The United Nations has launched a public crowdfunding drive that aims to raise $5 million towards an operation to avoid an oil spill from a…
Ukraine/Russia: Russia Has Achieved at Least 1 of Its War Goals: Return Ukraine's Water to Crimea
Jun 12, 2022
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Jason Beaubien, NPR
Two days into Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February, Russian military forces blew up a dam that Ukraine had built to cut off Crimea's…
Ukraine/Russia: Putin Admits Ukraine Invasion Is an Imperial War to “Return” Russian Land
Jun 10, 2022
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Peter Dickinson, Atlantic Council
Throughout the past few months, Vladimir Putin has offered up all manner of outlandish excuses for his invasion of Ukraine. At various different times he…
New Report: Why Climate Change Impacts Women Differently Than Men
Jun 10, 2022
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UNFCCC
Colombia: Illegal Destruction in Colombia: Amazon Rainforest under Threat [Video]
Jun 10, 2022
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Alessandro Rampietti, Al Jazeera
Deforestation and fires in Colombia's Amazon are destroying hundreds of thousands of hectares of rainforest every year to make space for cattle ranching, mining and…
Belgium: Women in Conflicts - Brussels Declaration on Actions Towards Empowering Women
Jun 9, 2022
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European Council
Women continue to be particularly affected by conflict situations: whether as civilians in directly affected areas, as refugees, or as persons directly targeted. At the same time, women contribute…
Water Wars: The Water Wars Myth: When Water Runs Short, Do We Have to Fight?
Jun 9, 2022
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Giulio Boccaletti, OpenMind
"Water shortages are brewing wars,” warned the BBC last year. People who worry about climate change are drawn to this dramatic, high-stakes idea. After all,…
Why the UN Security Council Can’t Keep Ignoring Climate-Driven Conflict
Jun 8, 2022
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Jamal Benomar
The UN Security Council’s raison d’être is to maintain international peace and security. The war in Ukraine has exposed its inability to fulfil that core…
If Women Don’t Lead, We’ll Lose the Battle Against Climate Crisis
Jun 8, 2022
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Sally Abi Khalil
We are in the midst of so many crises across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: the most unequal, water scarce, least democratic…
DRC: Irregularities Uncovered at State-Owned DRC Mining Company
Jun 8, 2022
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Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
The anti-corruption agency of the Democratic Republic of Congo has identified numerous irregularities in the management of the state-owned mining company, Gecamines, which it says…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Pro-Iran Militias ‘Seizing Kurdish Oil Resources’
Jun 8, 2022
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GDNonline
Pro-Iranian militias have seized half of the Iraqi oil resources, at a time when disputes are raging between Baghdad and Erbil over who manages oil…
Colombia: Colombia's Extractive Industries Watching Election Warily
Jun 8, 2022
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Oliver Griffin, Reuters
Colombia's leftist firebrand presidential candidate Gustavo Petro is too close in recent polls for the comfort of oil companies and miners who worry that his…
Afghanistan: Taliban Extends Bidding Period for Large-Scale Metal Mines
Jun 7, 2022
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Asian News International
The Taliban on Tuesday extended the bidding period for the extraction of two large-scale metal mines in western provinces - Herat and Ghor. The Ministry…
Apply Now! Call for 7th Annual ‘Gender-Just Climate Solutions’ Award Open
Jun 6, 2022
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Women Gender Constituency
These awards showcase real solutions for a just, healthy and sustainable planet.
All types of activist, grassroots, women-led and gender equality organizations and groups working on…
Liberia: High-Level UN Peacebuilding Commission Delegation Arrives in Liberia
Jun 6, 2022
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Front Page Africa
Lebanon: Lebanon Urges US Envoy to End Maritime Dispute with Israel
Jun 6, 2022
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Bassem Mroue, Associated Press
The Lebanese government invited on Monday a U.S. envoy mediating between Lebanon and Israel over their disputed maritime border to return to Beirut as soon…
DRC: Congo Ombudsman Says Millions Lost at State Mining Firm
Jun 6, 2022
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Africanews with AFP
The Democratic Republic of Congo's Inspectorate General of Finance (IGF), in a report revealed on Saturday, points to numerous irregularities in the management of the…
DRC: EAC Membership to Help DRC Benefit from Its Minerals
Jun 5, 2022
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Chimp Corps
At the end of May, 2022, Hon Rebecca Kadaga, Uganda’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs, led a delegation of Ugandan…
DRC/Rwanda: Rwanda-DR Congo Row: Tensions Rise again in the Great Lakes
Jun 5, 2022
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Timothy Kalyegira, Monitor
Tensions erupted last week between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. Demonstrations were held this week in the Congolese capital Kinshasa to protest Rwanda’s…
Navy’s Climate Strategy Aims to Build Resilience against Readiness Challenges
Jun 4, 2022
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Kylie Bielby
The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have released their climate strategy, Climate Action 2030, setting the Department of the Navy on a path to achieve…
Colombia: Colombia Court Orders Penalties for President, Cites National Park
Jun 4, 2022
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Reuters
A court in Colombia has ordered President Ivan Duque to be fined and placed under house arrest for five days, it said on Saturday, citing…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq's Kurdistan Judicial Council Defies Supreme Court over Oil Law
Jun 4, 2022
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Reuters
The judicial council of Iraq's Kurdistan said the region's oil law remained in force, rejected a ruling from the federal supreme court that Kurdish authorities…
Central African Republic Wants to Tokenize Mineral Resources
Jun 3, 2022
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Ledger Insights
After the Central African Republic (CAR) adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in April, yesterday, its President Faustin-Archange Touadéra announced on Twitter that the country plans to use…
Here's How Environmental Democracy Can Help Peace in Latin America
Jun 3, 2022
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Antonia Urrejola
In the last few decades, Latin America and the Caribbean has faced significant challenges in its development, associated with the sustainable use of its natural…
Sustaining Shared Waters: An African Case Study
Jun 3, 2022
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Sarah Davidson
Transboundary governance of shared water resources is essential to meeting the world’s most pressing challenges. One globally significant transboundary region is the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation…
In a Time of Competing Crises, Environmental Action Matters More Than Ever
Jun 3, 2022
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Richard Black, Cedric de Coning, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Hafsa Maalim, Melvis Ndiloseh, Dan Smith, and Caspar Trimmer
Last week saw the launch of SIPRI’s major policy report Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk, looking at how to manage the…
In a Time of Competing Crises, Environmental Action Matters More than Ever
Jun 3, 2022
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Richard Black, Cedric de Coning, Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Hafsa Maalim, Melvis Ndiloseh, Dan Smith, Caspar Trimmer
Last week saw the launch of SIPRI’s major policy report Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk, looking at how to manage the…
Iraq: 'It's a Mass Ecological Crisis': Extreme Weather in Iraq Hits Those Already Struggling the Hardest
Jun 3, 2022
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Yasmine Mosimann, The World
About a dozen dust storms have blown across Iraq this year. While these types of storms are a yearly occurrence in Iraq and neighboring countries,…
Colombia: IACHR Reveals Colombia's Failure to Provide Information on Members of the Public Force Investigated for Abuses
Jun 3, 2022
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Nick Quaz, The Gal Times
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published its 2021 Annual Report, a document that contains the human rights situation in the region and presents…
Ukraine: Troops Defend Utility Plants as Conflict in Ukraine Continues
Jun 3, 2022
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PA News Agency
As the fighting in eastern Ukraine inches forward, Russian attacks are knocking out power, water and gas to entire towns and cities and the utility…