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Myanmar: National IPM and FFS Specialist
May 3, 2020
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and…
South Sudan: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
May 3, 2020
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and…
Myanmar: Climate Resilience International Consultant
May 3, 2020
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Cordaid
Cordaid is an international NGO from the Netherlands and is part of the Caritas family. Cordaid was established in 2000 and is present in 22…
Kenya: Regional Operations Manager – East Africa
May 3, 2020
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Wasafiri
Wasafiri is a consultancy and institute helping leaders and organisations tackle some of the world’s toughest challenges. Established in 2010 by four African and Western…
Bottom-Up Ideas about Gender Justice from Violent Contexts Need Greater Recognition in the International Women’s Rights Agenda
May 3, 2020
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Nicholas Pope and Julia Zulver
With the world reaching the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action to end gender inequality and the 20th anniversary of the Women, Peace,…
Short-Term Grant Writer
May 3, 2020
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Association for Conflict Resolution
The Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) is a multidisciplinary and multicultural professional organization enhancing the practice and public understanding of conflict resolution and collaborative problem-solving throughout the…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraqi Kurdistan on the Brink of Collapse as Oil Prices Crash
May 3, 2020
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Viktor Katona, OilPrice.com
Attentive Oilprice readers must have read at least a dozen articles describing how hard Iraq has been hit by the drop in oil prices. Iraq’s…
Iraq/Syria: ISIS Takes Advantage of Covid Crisis to Launch Attacks on Military Positions in Iraq and Oil Fields and Civilians in Syria
May 3, 2020
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Luke Andrews, MailOnline
Iraq and Syria are battling a resurgence in attacks from ISIS as the terror group takes advantage of the coronavirus pandemic. There are between 2,500…
How Individual Citizens Can Protect South Sudan’s Environment from Mining and Oil Disasters
May 2, 2020
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Philip Ayuen Dot
Our planet has been undergoing several challenges in the last Century, when it comes to its environment. As the various reports from the United Nations…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Kurdistan Government Asks UN to Mediate Budget Dispute with Baghdad
May 2, 2020
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Stratfor
The president of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Nechirvan Barzani, asked the U.N. special representative to Iraq to help mediate its latest dispute with Baghdad…
China/Vietnam/South China Sea: China Updates Disputed Sea Maps to Get Back at Vietnam
May 1, 2020
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Ralph Jennings, Voice of America
China has renamed scores of islets and underwater landforms in the South China Sea, a move some analysts say is intended to push back against…
Afghanistan: How to Save Afghanistan's Groundwater?
May 1, 2020
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Wadsam
The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) today launched its recent research Issues Paper, “Surface Groundwater Interaction in the Kabul Region Basin”, authored by Dr…
What COVID-19 Tells Us About Gender Inequality in Latin America
May 1, 2020
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Eugene Zapata-Garesché and Luciana Cardoso
Mexico City – In the midst of social and economic unrest, the COVID-19 pandemic appears as an uninvited guest to an already crowded cocktail of…
Opinion: In the Battle Against COVID-19, Women Make Somalia Stronger
May 1, 2020
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Deqa Yasin Hagi Yusuf
Brave health workers. Brilliant researchers. Responsible leaders. Solidarity. Around the world, the COVID-19 crisis reveals what makes us strong. But it also highlights what makes us fragile.
In…
Vietnam: Addressing Gender-Based Violence Alongside the COVID-19 Pandemic in Viet Nam
Apr 29, 2020
Quang Ninh Province, Viet Nam – The “Anh Duong” (Sunshine) House Shelter for the provision of essential services to survivors of violence against women and…
Can Militant Groups Be Environmentalists?
Apr 29, 2020
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Kira Walker, World Politics Review
Competition over scarce natural resources is often a key driver of the tensions that fuel armed conflict in different corners of the world. Yet in…
Reducing Post-Harvest Losses through Better Gender Integration
Apr 29, 2020
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Maria Jones, Ismat Ara Begum, Monjurul Alam, C.K. Saha, and Abdul Awal
Post-harvest management is an important, although less visible, step in ensuring a community’s food security. Poor post-harvest management reduces both the quantity and quality of…
Might Feminism Revive Arms Control? Why Greater Inclusion of Women in Nuclear Policy Is Necessary and How to Achieve It
Apr 29, 2020
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Marylia Hushcha
The link between gender and security has become a prominent issue in the public debate over the last decades. On the most basic level, it…
South Sudan: South Sudan Security Targets Stall as Oil Funds Diverted to Fight Covid-19
Apr 28, 2020
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Fred Oluoch, East African
Implementation of key aspects of the South Sudan peace agreement are being affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Key among them is the implementation of security…
Guatemala: Tejiendo Paz Addresses Environmental Issues, Conflict and the Pandemic
Apr 28, 2020
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Janey Fugate
TOTONICAPAN, Guatemala — Wearing the brightly colored skirt typical of Maya women in the Western Highlands, Nicolasa Grasiela Checlan held up a baton with a…
Myanmar: Campaigners Call for Transparency in Myanmar Timber Trade after 850 Tons of Wood Seized
Apr 28, 2020
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Michael Tatarski, Mongabay
Earlier this month, Myanmar’s Information Ministry announced that the country’s Forest Department had seized nearly 850 tons of illegal timber between March 30 and April…
Myanmar: Communities Clash with Conservation Efforts in Northern Myanmar's Hkakaborazi Region
Apr 28, 2020
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Emily Fishbein, Mongabay
In late 2018, following a series of demonstrations and confrontations, indigenous communities primarily from the Rawang ethnic minority expelled the Myanmar Forest Department and its…
DRC: 12 Rangers from Virunga Park Killed While Trying to Save Civilians from FDLR Ambush
Apr 28, 2020
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Angus Begg, Independent Online
Twelve rangers and four civilians were killed late last week in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park, home to the highly endangered…
DRC: DR Congo Locks Down Mining City and Zambia Border Town
Apr 28, 2020
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Reuters
Democratic Republic of Congo imposed a 24-hour lockdown on the mining hub of Lubumbashi on Tuesday and was set to shut down Kasumbalesa, a border…
Women in Ukraine's Military: An Opportunity for Change
Apr 28, 2020
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Hannah Hrytsenko
While UN Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security urges countries to increase the participation of women in the military through a top-down approach, in…
India’s COVID–19 Gender Blind Spot
Apr 27, 2020
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Bansari Kamdar
The second most populous country in the world, India, has been under a nationwide lockdown since March 24, 2020 – one it intends to continue…
Can We Make Peace with the Coronavirus?
Apr 27, 2020
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Erica Sheeran and Jeremy Moore
The field of environmental peacebuilding understands the degradation of our planet’s environment as a common human foe against which groups divided by conflict can be mobilized. “Nature…
There Have Been Repeated Warnings About the Environmental Risks Posed by Flooded Coal Mines in Eastern Ukraine, Are We Now Seeing Evidence That It Is Happening?
Apr 27, 2020
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Eoghan Darbyshire
On the 12th March reports emerged on social media of contamination and discoloration at a reservoir in the town of Yenakiyevo, northwest of Donetsk. A follow up article by Free…
Yemen: On the Frontline of War, Yemeni Women Are Building Peace
Apr 27, 2020
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Kira Walker
It was the third year of the war when Muna Luqman heard of a conflict over water in Al-Haymatain, a remote area of Yemen’s Taiz…
Iraq: How the Oil Crash Affects Oil-Dependent Countries Like Iraq
Apr 27, 2020
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Smya Kullab and Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press
Iraq is planning painful cuts in social benefits relied on by millions of government workers. Saudi Arabia will likely have to delay mega-projects. Egypt and…