Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
The environmental justice atlas documents and catalogues social conflict around environmental issues. Across the world communities are struggling to defend their land, air, water, forests and their livelihoods from damaging projects and extractive activities with heavy environmental and social impacts: mining, dams, tree plantations, fracking, gas flaring, incinerators, etc. As …
Conflict areas in Sudan face an emergency level of food crisis from March until to September, a report by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET) warned. FEWNET’s latest report announced that the situation in rebel-controlled areas in South Kordofan and in the Darfur Marra Mountains is alarming due to …
Africa: US Ratification of Accord Is Fresh Boost for Global Effort to Combat Rogue Fishing Thirty-four countries, including 27 in Africa, are currently in need of external assistance for food due to drought, flooding and civil conflicts, according to a new United Nations report released today. The figure has grown …
Daudi Nangole sits under a huge baobab tree, watching his herd of cattle drink from a dam in Ikolongo village - a place that until recently was a no-go area for pastoralists. The 56-year-old herder, his family and their 73 cattle, sheep and goats traveled several kilometers to reach the …
As water scarcity in both China and India worsens, the competition over shared water resources in their transboundary rivers, particularly the Brahmaputra River, is set to intensify. Without an effective working mechanism between the two countries, water conflicts could potentially become a serious challenge to Sino-Indian relations. Nonetheless, the water …
This research shows that disaster risks in towns and cities are strongly linked to underdevelopment. The population of Africa’s cities is growing rapidly. But as poor people cram into towns and cities characterised by limited, weak and often under-resourced infrastructure, they are increasingly relegated to marginal, inadequately serviced, informal settlements …
The global human population now exceeds 7 billion and is projected to reach 10 billion around 2060. While population growth has been associated with certain benefits (e.g., economies of scale, technological advancements), theoretical models, probabilistic projections, and empirical evidence also indicate that this growth could increase the likelihood of many …
The famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS Net) disclosed in a report seen by APA that famine is likely to hit the Sudanese conflict zones by March. The report the food security situation will worsen from crisis stage to an emergency phase in the war areas especially in the troubled …
Increased community engagement and acknowledgement of community concerns are some early steps that can be taken to minimise wind energy disputes. A new study published in the journal Nature Energy by a collaboration of researchers from Canada has investigated ways in which disputes revolving around the development of wind energy …
Military conflict has been a major challenge in the detection and control of emerging infectious diseases such as malaria. It poses issues associated with enhancing emergence and transmission of infectious diseases by destroying infrastructure and collapsing healthcare systems. The Orakzai agency in Pakistan has witnessed a series of intense violence …
An estimated 2·6 million third trimester stillbirths occurred in 2015 (uncertainty range 2·4–3·0 million). The number of stillbirths has reduced more slowly than has maternal mortality or mortality in children younger than 5 years, which were explicitly targeted in the Millennium Development Goals. The Every Newborn Action Plan has the …
The continent’s population will continue to soar with the birth of almost two billion babies in the next 35 years and eventually reach 4.2 billion by 2100. An increasingly crowded Africa will have to invest in reproductive health and education to avert a disaster.
Researchers from the Human Computation Institute and Cornell University say that the combination would create a superintelligence, and it could take on growing issues like climate change and geopolitical conflict. New technologies use crowd-sourced input and interactive tools to produce collaborative results that go beyond traditional problem-solving, they claim. In …
Millions more people globally are facing the threat of severe food and water shortages in early 2016 as droughts and flood devastate crops and strain a humanitarian system already struggling to meet needs, aid agencies warned. The weather disturbances caused by this year's El Niño, described by the United Nations …
The Environmental Justice Atlas or EJAtlas.org is a freely accessible on-line interactive information portal that helps academic scholars and public policymakers across the world in identifying exemplary cases of peoples’ resistance against climate change and environment degradation. EJAtlas.org is conceived by the EJOLT project – an acronym for the ‘Environmental …
Chinese police have clashed with hundreds of protesters opposed to the construction of a rubbish depot because of health worries, residents and media said on Thursday, in the latest incident of public anger over the environment. The demonstrators overturned a police car and scuffled with officers in the city of …
Panaji: In its rejoinder filed in the case of the renewal of iron ore mining leases before the Supreme Court, Goa Foundation stated that the only option before the state government was to hold a public auction. Goa Foundation has challenged the renewal of 88 mining leases before the apex …
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) on Thursday said that the health needs of women and adolescents are too often neglected in humanitarian response to natural disasters and conflicts around the world, calling for a fundamental change to address women's health in conflicts and disasters. According to UNFPA's latest State of …
The health needs of women and adolescents are too often neglected in humanitarian response to natural disasters and conflicts around the world, even though whether women and girls live or die in a crisis often depends on access to basic sexual and reproductive health services like midwives and HIV prevention, …
Syria, Libya and Yemen are among the countries whose ability to withstand climate change shocks and stresses has deteriorated most in the past five years, suggesting conflict makes people more vulnerable to climate impacts, researchers said. The University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN), released on Tuesday, uses 46 …
