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East Africa: Climate Change Pressure Fueling Conflict in Horn of Africa

Oct 31, 2021 | Francis Mureithi, Nation

Communities in the Horn of Africa have been urged to address challenges occasioned by climate change, which threatens to exacerbate both the frequency and severity…

Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Saffron Growers Worried Taliban Will Ban Heavily Female Workforce

Oct 31, 2021 | Arshad Mehmood, Media Line

Saffron has the potential to help ameliorate Afghanistan’s dire economic difficulties. The country has long produced some of the best saffron in the world, and…

COP26: Why Are Women Still Missing at the Top Climate Table

Oct 30, 2021 | Bonnie Chiu

When the global face to climate action is Greta Thunberg, it can appear that women and girls are well represented at the top table. As…

COP26: Why Are Women Still Missing at the Top Climate Table

Oct 30, 2021 | Bonnie Chiu

When the global face to climate action is Greta Thunberg, it can appear that women and girls are well represented at the top table. As…

Netherlands: Senior Fundraiser

Oct 30, 2021 | Bellingcat

Bellingcat is an independent collective of international researchers, investigators and citizen journalists using open source and social media investigations to probe conflict, corruption, crimes, misinformation,…

Half of Syria Has Been Displaced by War. Now Record Drought Threatens Millions More

Oct 30, 2021 | Bel Trew, Independent

Today Syria is in the grips of the worst drought in 70 years. The Khabour has run completely dry like other rivers, lakes and dams…

Mohammed is a civil engineer and executive devoted to building the environmental foundation for peace in Iraq. His career started at the Iraqi Ministry of…

Climate Change: Dutch PM Supports Canada's Plan to Establish NATO Centre for Climate Security

Oct 29, 2021 | Mia Rabson, Canadian Press

The Netherlands threw its support behind a new NATO centre of excellence to study the security threats posed by climate change during Prime Minister Justin…

DRC: China Wants to Dominate the Global Electric Vehicle Market – and It’s Using Congolese Minerals to Do It

Oct 29, 2021 | James Griffiths and Geoffrey York, Globe and Mail

The backlash against the Chinese miners has been rising this year, even as they face another threat: a decision by the DRC government to review…

USA: International Consultant to Develop a Policy Paper on the Linkages Between Gender, Conflict, and Climate Change in the Arab States Region

Oct 28, 2021 | UN Women

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and…

USA: International Consultant to Develop a Policy Paper on the Linkages Between Gender, Conflict, and Climate Change in the Arab States Region

Oct 28, 2021 | UN Women

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and…

Afghanistan: Exclusive - 'Women Encouraged to Work in Pine Nut Industry': Taliban to WION

Oct 28, 2021 | Anas Mallick, WION

Pine nuts, popularly known as Afghanistan's 'export gold', are one of the major sources of support for the country's economy, especially at a time like this…

Sierra Leone: From ECOWAS to New York: Beny Steinmetz Diamonds on Trial in Three Jurisdictions

Oct 27, 2021 | Africa Intelligence

People living close to the Koidu diamond mine in Sierra Leone fear the dismissal of a domestic court case against Beny Steinmetz's company Octea, which…

Can COP26 Become a Turning Point for Gender Responsive Climate Action?

Oct 26, 2021 | Mohammad Naciri, Samantha Hung, and Sun-Ah Kim

In a recent United Nations poll of young people in South Asia, 78 percent said that climate change has impacted their studies. More girls reported…

Climate Change and Nuclear War: Existential Threats on a “Split Screen”

Oct 26, 2021 | Shruti Samala

In international relations today, we face two truly existential threats in climate change and in nuclear warAt this critical juncture —when “the risk of conflict…

Iraq: Iraq Opts for Clean Energy in Ambitious Energy Reform Program

Oct 26, 2021 | Salam Zidane, Al-Monitor

Iraq is signing contracts with international companies to produce clean energy in a bid to curb its rising pollution curve.

Can COP26 Become a Turning Point for Gender Responsive Climate Action?

Oct 26, 2021 | Mohammad Naciri, Samantha Hung, Sun-Ah Kim

Any meaningful international effort to address climate change must have women and girls at its center.

Afghanistan: Climate Now a Worse Crisis Than War for Afghanistan’s Farmers

Oct 26, 2021 | Al Jazeera

Drought stalks the parched fields around Afghanistan’s remote district of Bala Murghab, where the climate crisis is proving a deadlier foe than the country’s recent…

Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Population Faces Extreme Hunger as Collapsing Economy, Drought and Conflict Hamper Access to Food

Oct 25, 2021 | Janice Dickson, Globe and Mail

More than half of Afghanistan’s population – 22.8 million people – will face extreme hunger over the winter months as the country plunges deeper into…

Afghanistan: How Turmoil in Afghanistan Has Impacted Agriculture — a Vital Part of Its Livelihood

Oct 25, 2021 | Peter Kenyon, NPR

Afghanistan is facing crisis on multiple fronts as borders are closed, farmers in the country are facing a drought and the economy is in free-fall.

Ghana: Exclusion of Women in Peacebuilding Threat to Development

Oct 22, 2021 | Prince Acquah

The Executive Secretary of the National Peace Council (NPC), Mr George Amoh, has stated that the exclusion of women in peace building and security issues…

Vietnam/South China Sea: Vietnam Land-Filling on Disputed Reef in Spratlys, Imagery Shows

Oct 22, 2021 | Radio Free Asia

Vietnam appears to be doing new construction and land-filling on a remote reef it occupies in the disputed South China Sea, commercial satellite imagery shows.…

USA: DHS Releases First Ever Strategic Framework for Addressing Climate Change

Oct 22, 2021 | Kylie Bielby, Homeland Security Today

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its first Strategic Framework for Addressing Climate Change to govern the Department’s efforts to combat the climate…

How Gender Matters in the Climate Fight

Oct 22, 2021 | Shia Kapos

When it comes to fighting climate change, it turns out gender matters.

Ahead of a major United Nations climate conference that begins later this month, a new…

Gendering Just Transition

Oct 22, 2021 | Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

As policymakers across the world look to shift their power sources away from coal, they must keep in mind the gendered impacts of their energy…

Liberia: How FDA Allows a Foreign Family to Hoard Forests and Hurts Communities

Oct 21, 2021 | William Harmon and Varney Kamara

In 2018, the Bondi Mandingo Authorized Community Forest signed a logging agreement with Indo Africa Plantation Limited. The community agreed with the company to log in…

Register Now for the Geneva Peace Week 2021

Oct 21, 2021

Geneva Peace Week (GPW) is a leading annual forum in the international peacebuilding calendar, and the flagship event of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. This year,…

Syria: Syria Executes 24 People for Setting Wildfires, Calling It ‘Terrorism’

Oct 21, 2021 | Ben Hubbard, New York Times

The Syrian government has executed 24 people and sentenced 11 others to life in prison with hard labor for lighting wildfires that burned across the…

How Efforts to Combat Climate Change Created New Security Challenges in the Arctic

Oct 21, 2021 | Andrew Latham

In a little over a week, the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will hold their annual meeting, dubbed COP26,…

Climate Change: Climate Change Poses a Widening Threat to National Security

Oct 21, 2021 | Christopher Flavelle, Julian E. Barnes, Eileen Sullivan, and Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times

Worsening conflict within and between nations. Increased dislocation and migration as people flee climate-fueled instability. Heightened military tension and uncertainty. Financial hazards. The Biden administration…