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UN concern after its female workers are ‘banned’ from working by Taliban

All staff in Afghanistan ordered to stay home for 48 hours to give officials time to negotiate with Taliban

The Guardian - UK

When Russia invaded, this former House staffer rushed to Ukraine - Roll Call

Days after the Russian invasion, Steven Moore flew to the region to help his friends flee, and then bring in supplies.

Roll Call

Why the growing number of foreign agent laws around the world is bad for democracy

After several days of mass protests and clashes between protesters and police in early March, the ruling party of Georgia, a former Soviet state located in the Caucasus, succumbed to pressure and abandoned its proposed laws on foreign agents.

The Conversation

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‘A bit of a Swiss army knife’: the leadership duo aiming to help Greenpeace UK cut through

Since taking up their roles in October, Will McCallum and Areeba Hamid have set about transforming the environmental group and expanding its scope to take on new challenges

The Guardian - UK

‘The hydropower goldrush’: how Europe’s first wild river national park saw off the dams

The Vjosa River in Albania teems with more than 1,000 species, while rare vultures and Balkan lynx visit its banks. It has seen off the threat of a surge in barriers, but the shadow of development persists

The Guardian - UK

PepsiCo's chief sustainability officer: ‘Half of the world’s population will face water scarcity as soon as 2025. It’s time everyone does their part in addressing the global water crisis’

The UN Water Conference is being held for the first time in decades–a rare opportunity for companies, NGOs, and governments to work together.

Fortune

LGBTQ+ rights: African Union watchdog goes back on its own word

The primary human rights watchdog in Africa recently made a decision that departed from its existing practice. The African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights, an independent expert body within the African Union (AU) framework, used sexual or gender identity as the reason it rejected applications for observer status from…

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Wedding designer Ambika Gupta: Alanna Panday and Ivor McCray's shaadi was inspired by their devotion to family and travel - Exclusive deets and inside pics

Social media influencer Alanna Panday got married to the love of her life, Ivor McCray in Mumbai in a dreamy wedding ceremony on March 16. Alanna is the daughter of Chikki (Chunky Panday’s brother) and Deanne Pandey. The wedding festivities took place over two days, and fans got a glimpse…

The Times of India

‘Historic moment’ for nature as Europe’s first wild river national park announced in Albania

A project with outdoor gear company Patagonia and NGOs will protect the Vjosa, one of the continent’s last free-flowing waterways

The Guardian - UK

‘They spit on us’: What’s really going on in the El Ouardia migrant centre in Tunis

Officially, the El Ouardia migrant centre in Tunis is meant to serve as a reception centre to “welcome and orient” new arrivals to Tunisia. However, what is actually happening there has long remained opaque because NGOs and lawyers aren’t allowed access. The FRANCE 24 Observers decided to investigate the nightmarish…

France 24

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's controversial fight against migrant boats setting sail to cross the Mediterranean

Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni puts her controversial stamp on the long-running war between the Italian government and charities saving refugees from shipwrecks in the Mediterranean.

ABC News

Humanitarian ships grapple with Italy’s new rules on sea rescue operations

A week after dozens of migrants died when their boat capsized a few hundred metres off the Italian coast, humanitarian ships are grappling with a new "code of conduct" for rescues at sea. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government in January forbade NGOs from carrying out "simultaneous" rescues at…

France 24

Crucial high seas treaty stuck over sharing of genetic resources

Delegates deplore ‘insensitivity and privilege’ of developed nations as negotiators disagree over who should benefit from marine discoveries

The Guardian - UK

Earth’s ‘green lung’ rainforests take centre stage at talks in Gabon

The sixth annual One Planet Summit begins on Wednesday, with the fate of forests at the top of the agenda. Politicians, scientists and NGOs will meet in Libreville, Gabon, to discuss the future of rainforests in the Congo basin, Southeast Asia and the Amazon basin – and whether countries in…

France 24

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US firm to bid to turn DRC oil permits in Virunga park into conservation projects

Exclusive: company plans to sell carbon and biodiversity credits in endangered gorilla habitat and Congo basin rainforest as alternative to drilling for fossil fuels

Bangkok Post

French court dismisses case against TotalEnergies E. Africa oil project

PARIS - A French court on Tuesday dismissed a landmark case against TotalEnergies for a massive oil project in Uganda and Tanzania after several NGOs filed a suit to suspend the controversial project.

France 24

French court dismisses NGOs' case against controversial TotalEnergies projects in east Africa

A French court ruled on Tuesday rejected a landmark lawsuit against oil giant TotalEnergies that accused it of failing to protect people and the environment as it pursues oil projects in Uganda and Tanzania. The world’s longest heated oil pipeline will pass through forest reserves and game parks before running…

Bangkok Post

How to prevent humanitarian crises in future

The world is in the midst of the worst food crisis in modern history. As a confluence of geopolitical, economic, and climate crises fuels global shortages, a staggering 326 million people in dozens of countries need humanitarian aid, with 222 million facing acute food insecurity and up to 50 million…

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Climate campaigners sue BNP Paribas over fossil fuel finance

Action against one of Europe’s largest financial institutions is the first climate-related lawsuit against a commercial bank

The Conversation

The new major players in conservation? NGOs thrive while national parks struggle

It might surprise you to know that not-for-profit conservation organisations own, manage or influence growing chunks of Australia.

Al Jazeera

Report says donors ‘turning away’ from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan

New Crisis Group report cautions against aid cuts amid Taliban curbs on women’s education and working at NGOs.

France 24

View from Aleppo: 'Syrians are angry with the West' over lack of earthquake aid

With international aid still struggling to reach Syria two weeks after the devastating February 6 earthquakes, calls are mounting for Western countries to lift diplomatic sanctions on the Syrian regime and facilitate the flow of aid. A local doctor helping the humanitarian efforts in Aleppo, in northwestern Syria, tells FRANCE…

ABC News

On Ukraine's frontlines, Australian volunteers are risking their lives to help the most vulnerable

In north-east Ukraine, a small truck emblazoned with a jumping kangaroo delivers moments of hope to the most vulnerable. Behind the wheel is an Australian oil rigger.

Reuters

Factbox-AFAD: Turkey's Disaster Management Authority

Turkey's Disaster Management Authority (AFAD) is tasked with coordinating search, rescue and aid efforts in response to earthquakes, floods, forest fires and other emergencies. [L1N34Q1CN]

The Conversation

Turkey-Syria earthquake: Assad blames west as agencies struggle to get aid to his desperate people

It didn’t take long for Syria’s Assad regime to seek political and economic benefit from the devastation of an earthquake. As emergency services were reaching victims of the 7.8-magnitude tremor on February 6, regime-linked organisations demanded governments “immediately end the siege and unilateral coercive economic sanctions imposed on Syria and…

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