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 …
This report describes the progress African countries are making on strengthening the quality of policies and institutions that underpin development. It presents Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) scores for the 39 African countries that are eligible for support from the International Development Association (IDA). This year's report expands coverage …
Discussion about water in South Asia – in particular the shared rivers of the region – is vociferous, antagonistic and increasingly associated with national security. Renewable water resources in the region have fallen dramatically on a per capita basis since the 1960s. India hit the ‘water stress’ mark around a …
After obstruction lasting almost a week, work resumed at Hewa-A hydropower project today after an agreement was signed between agitating locals and the company. Earlier, work at the 15.5 MW power project being developed by Panchthar Power Company in Yangnam VDC, had halted after locals created hurdles accusing the company …
`Warming-Induced Drought In Mideast, Africa Is Already Leading To Conflicts Over Food & Water' The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to national security and acts as a catalyst for global political conflict, a report published on Tuesday by a leading government-funded military research organization concluded. The …
Following the update of 28 March 2014 on concerns about drought conditions in the Syrian Arab Republic, FAO has been closely monitoring the situation in cooperation with national authorities. Analysis based on satellite imagery together with field reports indicate that vast areas in the northwest of the country received well …
WWF staff have been telephoned with death threats for opposing oil exploitation in Africa's oldest national park, which is home to one in four of the world's estimated 800 remaining mountain gorillas. It follows the attempted assassination of the Virunga national park's chief warden last month and the death of …
The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to national security and acts as a catalyst for global political conflict, a report published Tuesday by a leading government-funded military research organization concluded. The Center for Naval Analyses Military Advisory Board found that climate change-induced drought in the Middle …
The World Food Programme will help to feed nearly 6.5 million Ethiopians this year, the U.N. agency said on Tuesday, with the country hit by locusts, neighboring war and sparse rainfall. "We are concerned because there is the beginning of a locust invasion in the eastern part of the country, …
Mining and hydrocarbon companies are failing to take into account the full cost of community conflicts, which are a major risk for resource projects world-wide, according to a new study released Monday. The study, which was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S., looked at …
A fresh petition filed in the Supreme Court suggests that the proposed translocation of Gir lions to Kuno-Palpur in Madhya Pradesh may harm tigers moving from Rajasthan to Madhya Pradesh. It also suggests that the arrival of the tiger in India may have been responsible for the decline in the …
In this follow-up to its landmark study, National Security and the Threat of Climate Change, CNA Corporation’s Military Advisory Board (MAB) re-examines the impact of climate change on U.S. national security in the context of a more informed, but more complex and integrated world. The MAB’s 2007 report described projected …
Report reveals rising number of environment and land rights activists being killed worldwide What now happens twice a week to “ordinary people” around the world trying to protect the environment and rights to land? They get killed. That’s the conclusion of a report released last week by UK-based NGO Global …
The Australian Conservation Foundation says that without an independent umpire, wider disputes over water use could arise Environmentalists have warned the federal government it could spark widespread conflicts over water use if the National Water Commission is abolished. The future of the commission, an independent statutory authority which provides advice …
This report looks at known killings of people defending environmental and land rights. It identifies a clear rise in such deaths from 2002 and 2013 as competition for natural resources intensifies. In the most comprehensive global analysis of the problem on record, found that at least 908 people have died …
The elders of Malakand Agency and Bajaur Agency’s Barang tribe on Wednesday decided to resolve the longstanding dispute on the ownership of a local chromite mine by dialogue. The decision was made during by a jirga here, where dozens of tribal elders from the two sides, Bajaur Agency political agent …
Asia is facing the brunt of climate change and will see severe stress on water resources and food-grain production in the future, increasing the risk of armed conflict among India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China, the latest report of a UN panel has warned. UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in …
Elephant ivory poaching is no longer solely a conservation issue. As poaching reaches levels that threaten to render African elephants near-totally extinct within the next ten years, it also funds a wide range of destabilizing actors across Africa, with significant implications for human conflict. A single elephant yields 10kg of …
Do you worry that there is not enough water for people, the economy and environment? Do you wonder if the water in our taps and rivers is safe or polluted? Do you want to know if farmers waste water, utilities charge too much, or bottled water destroys ecosystems? You're not …
A UN panel will on Monday come out with its much-awaited report, assessing region-specific impact of climate change on human settlements and natural resources including drinking water and food-grain production. The report to be released in Yokohama, Japan, is likely to predict how many Asian cities including Mumbai, Kolkata, Dhaka …
The Gathering Storm: Climate Change, Security and Conflict collates evidence from around the world to show how climate change is acting as a catalyst for conflict and instability. It demonstrates how some of the most vulnerable people in the world are the first and worst affected by climate change, exposed …
