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Climate Change: The US Navy Quietly Shut down Its Task Force on Climate Change

Feb 3, 2020 | Union of Concerned Scientists

The US Navy has dismantled its Task Force on Climate Change, which was designed to use the best available science to prepare naval leadership for…

Iraq: Suspicious Oil Deals Dissipate Iraq’s Resources

Feb 2, 2020 | Arab Weekly

Analysts said they deplored the decision by the resigning Iraqi government to adopt suspicious deals that waste the country’s oil wealth. The move, an apparent…

Why Post- War Women's Livelihood Strategies Have Failed in Lanka's Eastern Province

Feb 2, 2020 | PK Balachandran

Sri Lanka’s post-war livelihood strategies for women in the Eastern Province have failed, necessitating fresh thinking based on the experience garnered so far and the…

For Thailand's Female Land Rights Defenders, Activism Is a Dangerous and Daunting Necessity

Feb 2, 2020 | Lam Le

Growing up, cassava farmer Nittaya Muangklang did not think she would ever become an activist – let alone that she would lead a group of…

Development and Peace Work- Much More Than Economics

Feb 1, 2020 | Nils Rosemann

The saying goes that “you can write anything on paper and it won’t blush” but people are not like that. Economics – and the part…

Afghanistan's Mineral Resources Are a Lost Opportunity and a Threat

Feb 1, 2020 | Ahmad Shah Katawazai

Torn by four decades of war and desperate poverty, Afghanistan is believed to be sitting on one of the richest troves of minerals in the…

Mountain Women Bear the Brunt of Climate Change

Feb 1, 2020 | Suruchi Bhadwal, Ghanashyam Sharma, Ganesh Gorti, and Sudeshna Maya Sen

Climate change impacts are disproportionate and influence lives and livelihoods variedly. One crucial determinant of these disproportionate impacts is gender. Existing social norms determine roles…

Myanmar: Myanmar Earns US$310 M from Fishery Exports in 2020

Jan 31, 2020 | Eleven

Myanmar earned about US$310 million from fishery export from October 1 to January 17 in this fiscal year and it is more US$45 million compared…

Study: Climate Challenges Linked to Gender-Based Violence

Jan 31, 2020 | Africa Times

Climate change and related environmental challenges are implicated in gender-based violence and discrimination, notably in sub-Saharan Africa’s fishing and timber industries, according to a new…

Environmental Science and National Security: Overcoming Barriers to Connecting Research with Policy

Jan 31, 2020 | Winter Wilson

Beginning with the end of the Cold War, a relatively small but growing number of scholars began to investigate the connections between environmental change, conflict,…

Kyrgyzstan: From Where I Stand: “Expanding Economic Opportunities of Women is Key to Ensure Safety and Prosperity”

Jan 30, 2020 | UN Women

Kursanali kyzy Begimai, 24, is the leader of a self-help group in a village on the disputed Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border. Running a profitable agro-business and conflict-resolution…

DRC: Congo Moves to Monopolise about 25 Percent of All Cobalt Exports

Jan 30, 2020 | William Clowes and Michael J. Kavanagh, Bloomberg

The Democratic Republic of Congo created a state monopoly for hand-mined cobalt as the government tries to exert more market control on the battery material.…

Enhancing Gender-Responsive Disaster Risk Management: Why a Change of Mindset Is the First Step

Jan 30, 2020 | Emily Brearley, Thembi Kumapley, and Katharine Vincent

Mortality rates from disaster occurrences are exponentially higher for women than for men. Some studies actually find that women and children are 14 times more…

Climate Breakdown 'Is Increasing Violence Against Women'

Jan 29, 2020 | Fiona Harvey, The Guardian

Climate breakdown and the global crisis of environmental degradation are increasing violence against women and girls, while gender-based exploitation is in turn hampering our ability…

Liberia: NGO to Assist Citizens Protect Their Land from Government Officials, Companies in Bomi

Jan 29, 2020 | Lennart Dodoo, FrontPage Africa

A nongovernmental organization, Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), has begun working with local people in Bomi to empower them resist a wave of land grab in…

Guatemala: Indigenous Women's Agro-Ecology Is Healing Guatemala's Landscape

Jan 29, 2020 | Andrew J. Wight, Sojourners

RABINAL, BAJA VERAPAZ, GUATEMALA – The massive, white Catholic Cathedral of Rabinal, commissioned by Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas, who arrived in Guatemala's central…

DRC: DRC Inks Deal to Refurbish Old Mpiana-Mwanga Hydropower Station

Jan 29, 2020 | Construction Review Online

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has signed an agreement with AVZ Minerals to investigate a potential refurbishment of the old Mpiana-Mwanga hydropower…

New Study Details Overlooked Link Between Climate Breakdown and Violence Against Women

Jan 29, 2020 | Julia Conley, Common Dreams

Women are often the "first to be targeted" when environmental shocks threaten natural resources, international conservation group says.

Colombia: Pablo Escobar's Hippos Have Become an Invasive Species in Colombia

Jan 29, 2020 | Alison DeNisco Rayome, CNET

In the early 1980s, infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar created a family zoo full of exotic animals in Colombia, including rhinos, giraffes, zebras and hippos.…

Climate Change is Contributing to Exploitation of Women, New Report Details

Jan 29, 2020 | Tebany Yune

Climate-related crises in poorer countries increases violence and exploitation of women, says a recent report, and current attempts to address climate change fail to tackle this…

Climate Breakdown "Is Increasing Violence Against Women"

Jan 29, 2020 | Fiona Harvey

Climate breakdown and the global crisis of environmental degradation are increasing violence against women and girls, while gender-based exploitation is in turn hampering our ability…

Afghanistan: ECHO Extends DACAAR’s Emergency Response Mechanism (ERM) Project in Afghanistan

Jan 28, 2020 | Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees

In December 2019 DACAAR received an extension from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) for Emergency Respond Mechanism (ERM). This round of…

Colombia: For Colombia, 2019 Was a Year of Environmental Discontent

Jan 28, 2020 | Antonio José Paz Cardona, Mongabay

In Colombia, a year of crucial environmental decisions ended with a national strike that began on Nov. 21, 2019. Various social sectors say they are…

'Join Foces in Defense of Life, Territory and our Womanhood!' Statement Signed by Indigenous Women of the World, Present at COP 25

Jan 28, 2020 | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change