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  • Environmental Management: A Critical Tool for Environmental Peacebuilding

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 9, 2023  //  By Richard Marcantonio
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    On July 28, 2022 the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted—by a count of 161 in favor, with 8 abstentions — that living in a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a human right. Building on the similar declaration by the UN Human Rights Council in October 2021, the UNGA has now reinforced the notion that the growing assaults on human health through environmental hazards are transgressions against the basic rights and freedoms of people.

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  • Environmentalism for Sovereignty’s Sake

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    Guest Contributor  //  December 12, 2022  //  By Peter Schwartzstein
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    Egypt’s Gebel Elba National Park is, by all accounts, a spectacular place. But it better be to justify the fuss it takes to visit. First you have to apply for a permit. If that’s approved (and almost none have been in recent years), you need to travel with an approved tour operator. Even then, you must be accompanied by police at all times.

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  • Buen Vivir in Ecuador: An Alternative Development Movement for Social and Ecological Justice

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    China Environment Forum  //  December 8, 2022  //  By Yiran Ning
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    Earlier in 2022, Ecuador’s capital was left “virtually paralyzed” after some 14,000 people, mainly Indigenous Ecuadorians, participated in 17 days of sometimes violent nationwide protests. The actions forced the Lasso government to the negotiating table for a 90-day dialogue with Indigenous leaders. By early September, the parties signed a temporary moratorium on the development of oil blocks and the allocation of new mining contracts.

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  • Women with Disabilities in Nigeria’s Mining Industry: Discrimination and Opportunities

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    Guest Contributor  //  December 2, 2022  //  By Nkasi Wodu
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    Women and girls with disabilities worldwide are subject to multiple forms of discrimination—a fact that the 2022 International Day for Persons with Disabilities brings into sharp focus. Yet while all people with disabilities (PWD) face exclusion and widespread stigma, women face the additional burden of exclusion from full participation in economic and cultural activities. Both forms of discrimination result from the collaboration of outdated laws and prevalent societal stigmatization.

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  • Media and Climate Security: Mutual Miscomprehension?

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    Guest Contributor  //  December 1, 2022  //  By Peter Schwartzstein
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    There’s a scene near the climax of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express when Hercule Poirot starts to plot out the possible murderers. There’s Colonel Arbuthnot, who had opportunity and motive. There’s Mr. McQueen, suspicious in his transparent attempts to misdirect the detective. There’s even the haughty, toad-faced Princess Dragomiroff. Like practically everyone on the train, she had good reason to wish the evil Ratchett dead.

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  • COP27 in Egypt: Putting Human Rights on the Climate Agenda

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 29, 2022  //  By Arona Baigal & Jocelyn Trainer
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    Cairo hoped that COP27 would focus on its stated agenda: climate change adaptation. Yet it was human rights concerns—such as jailed pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah’s hunger strike and rumors of restricted internet access to human rights platforms—that often stole headlines from climate policy or funding pledges. The persistence of human rights coverage demonstrated that Egypt and many other governments fail to recognize that strong governance, human rights protections, and climate change adaptation are mutually reinforcing and have overlapping policy actions.

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  • The Cost of Going Solo in Solar

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 21, 2022  //  By John Paul Helveston, Gang He & Michael Davidson

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    Three decades. That is how much time is left to decarbonize the world’s energy systems to limit global warming to 1.5°C, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Achieving this feat requires renewable energy systems be deployed at an unprecedented speed and scale. While daunting, however, the good news is that this transformation may not cost as much as many expected just a decade ago, thanks to rapid cost declines in renewable energy technologies.

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  • Mobile Clinics and Mental Health Care: The NGO Response to Ukraine’s Health Crises

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    New Security Broadcast  //  November 18, 2022  //  By Claire Doyle

    Thumbnail Podcast ImagesThe war in Ukraine is not only displacing millions, straining the economy, and ravaging infrastructure. It’s also creating a mounting health crisis. In this week’s New Security Broadcast, ECSP’s Director Lauren Risi hears from Ambassador Daniel Speckhard and Dr. Mariia Dolynska about the health impacts created by the war in Ukraine and what is still needed to strengthen the health system—as well as what one NGO is doing to deliver healthcare in the embattled nation.

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