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 …
Local residents complain expansion plans by Socapalm, Cameroon’s biggest palm oil company, will take over land that belongs to them With precise, hard strikes a man cuts the branches of the short palm trees. Amid all the other tropical plants growing wildly around and into each other, the branches are …
Since March, nearly 25,000 people a day have slipped into hunger in Yemen, and every second person – or nearly 13 million people – is now struggling to find enough to eat, according to Oxfam. Conflict, air strikes and a naval blockade have killed thousands in the country, and reduced …
A new report by Italian researchers shows that the controversial Senhuile project in Senegal is on the verge of collapse. The project, initiated by Italian and Senegalese investors four years ago to produce biofuels, has provoked fierce resistance from affected communities in which six people have died. Its investors claim …
Central African Republic’s (CAR) Forestry Minister, Isabelle Gaudeille has taken offense at the publication of a report by the British NGO Global Wildness which says the harnessing of wood has served to fuel the crisis in the country.The report is dated back to 2013, and therefore no longer corresponds to …
More than 70 per cent respondents in Uganda, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Peru, Brazil, the Philippines and India said they were more concerned about climate change than economic instability, ISIS and Iran's nuclear programmes.
Addis Ababa — Partner countries and regional bodies will receive support to develop stronger policies in these crucial sectors The European Union and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have launched a new partnership agreement to boost food and nutrition security, sustainable agriculture and resilience in at least 35 …
AURANGABAD: The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court has directed the state government not to grant any administrative approval in respect of any new water project until finalisation of the Integrated State Water Plan (ISWP). The court also directed the Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority (MWRRA) and the government …
Governments should treat climate change as seriously as threats to national security or public health, partly by focusing more on the worst scenarios of rising temperatures, an international report said on Monday. Crop failures, extreme heat waves or high rates of sea level rise could be so harmful that governments …
The UN Children's Fund ( UNICEF) on Tuesday said that up to 1.3 million children and adults "have little or no access to water in eastern Ukraine" as the ongoing violence continues in the region, a UN spokesman told reporters here. "This is due to damaged or destroyed water lines …
Dakar: The European and Chinese timber trade with Central African Republic has been funding armed groups on both sides of a conflict simmering since 2013, the anti-corruption group Global Witness said on Wednesday. A Global Witness report estimated the logging industry paid nearly €3.4 million ($5 million) in 2013 in …
Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Sdumo Dlamini has described the August 2012 tragedy at Marikana Platinum Mine where dozens of miners lost their lives following police shootings was due to “corporate greed.”Dlamini who was speaking Tuesday at the federation’s special congress at Midrand, a suburb of Johannesburg, …
Global warming-induced food and water shortages may cause mass migration, competition for resources and state failure, providing fertile ground for conflict and terrorism, analysts warned Monday. In a report entitled: “Climate Change, A Risk Assessment”, a global team of scientists, policy analysts and financial and military risk experts painted a …
Conflict-ridden Yemen, where more than 3,000 people have been killed and one million displaced since war broke out in March, is at risk of famine, aid chiefs said on Tuesday, the day after the conflict's highest one-day death toll was recorded. The situation is "clearly deteriorating by the day," said …
In a context of rapid growth, an increasing proportion of minorities and indigenous peoples are now living in urban areas. But while they offer the possibility of greater freedoms, improved livelihoods and more equitable opportunities, cities often magnify existing patterns of discrimination and insecurity. This year's edition of State of …
India ranks a lowly 143rd on a global peace index, lagging way behind the likes of Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh with Iceland emerging as the most peaceful nation in the world. According to the non-profit Institute for Economics and Peace, Iceland, the thinly-populated island in the midst of …
Tackling climate change risks must become a top foreign policy priority if the world is to combat the global security threat it poses in the 21st century, according to a new study commissioned by the G7 countries. Multiple conflicts have taken the government systems for dealing with them “to their …
Australia is underprepared for the security implications of climate change, while our key military allies, like the US and Britain, are bustling to get ready. While domestic discussion of climate change is lost in a sea of partisanship and inaction, abroad, the rhetoric and response has changed decisively. The G7 …
Already facing a crop failure-like situation during almost every kharif season due to massive rain and faulty drainage system, a majority of farmers in waterlogging-affected Muktsar and Fazilka districts are likely to face another major trouble this paddy season. The Irrigation Department has decided to shut the water inlets to …
Many irrigation systems are special cases of common-pool resources (CPRs) in which some users have preferential access to the resource, which in theory aggravates collective action challenges such as the under-provision of necessary infrastructure as a result of unequal appropriation of water resources. We present experimental evidence based on an …
Nearly two-thirds of the Yemeni population, a total of 16 million people, live without access to drinking water due to air strikes, armed clashes, and lack of fuel in the country, Oxfam warned on Tuesday. “People are being forced to drink unsafe water as a result of the disintegration of …
