Announcements
Webinar: Investigating Organized Crime in the Golden Triangle
Date/Time: December 1, 2022 at 7.00 pm (Thailand time) The Golden Triangle, where the borders of Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos intersect, is one of the world’s renowned centers of criminal activity. The region’s underworld economy turns over billions of dollars annually in narcotics production, human trafficking, ...
MRC public forum to discuss development challenges, seek joint solutions (12-13 Dec)
The Mekong River Commission will soon host its 13th Regional Stakeholder Forum, in which the MRC will not only provide updates of hydropower projects along Southeast Asia’s largest river, but will feature the deepening cooperation with activists who speak for the interests of millions of fishing and farming ...
Community call: Advocating for open contracting on the global anticorruption stage
ORGANISATION: OPEN CONTRACTING PARTNERSHIP LOCATION: VIRTUAL TIME: 10:00 EDT / UTC – 4 Join us for an exchange of ideas, plans and priorities for the open contracting agenda at upcoming global summits! We will be meeting on Thursday, November 3rd at 10:00 EDT / UTC – 4 (register here). This December, ...
Commoning water(s): resources, services and ecological justice in Asia
Inclusive and just water security is widely recognized as principal challenge in the era of the Anthropocene. Water insecurity affects the livelihoods of both rural and urban populations in Southeast Asia, and the wider the Global South. This public event brings together academics and practitioners working ...
Deadline Extension: Opportunities for supporting the Foreign Investment Mapping Platform
We are hiring 2 positions below for the Foreign Investment Mapping (FIM) Platform: Plone 6 Developer (Python Backend / Remote Position) – http://bit.ly/3CAfcfF Volto Developer (React Front-end / Remote Position) – http://bit.ly/3CMtCKR Send us CV and cover letter to job@ewmi-odi.org. Deadline: November 3rd, 2022 ...
Cambodia ICT Camp is back in 2022!
The Cambodia ICT Camp 2022 will be a three-day boarding-style event centered around open data, digital security, and data journalism. This event will consist of a series of interactive workshops and hands-on activities led by professional experts in the fields of data, media and communication, journalism, ...
EarthRights School (ERS) Advocacy Training Program for 2022
The EarthRigths School is an intensive, residential training program for activists and earth rights defenders from the Mekong region (China, Myanmar, Lao PDR, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) who are working on environmental and human rights issues. Through three months’ program we will provide the relevant knowledge, skills, and networks ...
Water, Food, Energy, and Climate Nexus: The Role of Local NGOs in Mekong Region
Asian Research Center for International Development (ARCID) is presenting the 3rd Mekong Dialogue on “Water, Food, Energy, and Climate Nexus: The Role of Local NGOs in Mekong Region”. The dialogue will be hybrid, taking place both online via Zoom and in-person at the ARCID Bangkok ...
Call for submissions: WIPO Photography Prize for Indigenous Peoples and Local Community Youth 2021-2022
Through this activity, WIPO aims to celebrate and make widely known the creativity of Indigenous and local community youth, as well as raise their awareness on how copyright can be used to protect their creativity expressed in the photographs. The theme of the WIPO Photography ...
Evolving role of civil society to improve forest governance in the Mekong region
The Voices for Mekong Forests (V4MF) will host the project’s closing event on 30 November 2021. The European Union (EU) funded the V4MF project with the goal to strengthen civil society’s contributions for improved forest governance in the Mekong region. The project started in 2017 and will end ...
