MIL NGO Engine

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This is a 1-year fixed-term position based in either Manila, Bangkok, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur. Candidates who have the legal right to work and live in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia are encouraged to apply.

About the Role

The Senior Legal Advisor provides overarching strategic legal leadership and establishes GPSEA’s dedicated in-house legal capacity. Operating across Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand, this role is accountable for mitigating organisational risk and ensuring regulatory compliance. The incumbent will provide high-level counsel on employment law, industrial relations, governance, and campaign risk, while coordinating with external legal counsel and overseeing litigation. The role ensures that legal considerations are seamlessly integrated into GPSEA’s strategic decision-making to protect the organisation’s staff, assets, and reputation.

The role is centered on three core performance domains:

Justice: Driving legal strategies that actively advance environmental campaigns while fiercely defending the fundamental right to organize and demonstrate.

Governance: Solidifying internal accountability, operational risk systems, and institutional compliance frameworks.

Performance: Equipping and enabling regional teams to achieve strategic victories with maximum efficiency.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and establish GPSEA’s in-house legal and risk management framework, ensuring alignment with the organisation’s strategic goals across four operating countries. 
• Formulate policies and provide guidance to ensure GPSEA’s adherence to local laws, regulatory frameworks, and international governance standards. 
• Provide high-level legal counsel regarding anti-protest or restrictive NGO/charity laws to safeguard GPSEA’s operational freedom and civic advocacy environment.
• Construct and deploy internal workflows and processes to guarantee the agile, high-quality execution of legal services across the organization.
• Proactively review campaign strategies, direct actions and public communications to assess and mitigate legal, regulatory, and litigation exposure, specifically evaluating media liabilities such as defamation and libel. 
• Provide expert legal advice on complex employment matters, including organisational restructuring, workforce transitions, collective bargaining and engagement with labor unions.
• Direct and manage a regional network of external legal partners across Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand, aligning their specialized expertise to secure robust organizational defense and strategic advice.
• Cultivate, grow, and coordinate collaborative relationships with volunteer legal networks, activist legal communities, and pro bono providers.
• Act as the chief trusted legal advisor to the Executive Director and Senior Management Team, using risk-based insights to shape top-level strategic paths.
• Negotiate consensus and resolve complex disputes across regional campaign, finance, and P&C teams regarding policy updates and organizational re-alignments without having direct line-management authority.
• Lead formal settlement negotiations and defend GPSEA’s institutional interests in external employment tribunals, labor union stalemates, or interactions with state regulatory bodies.
• Maintain strict adherence to all judicial calendars, court-mandated windows, and statutory filing deadlines for every active regional lawsuit and defensive proceeding
• Ensure prompt turnaround times for legal inquiries, contract vetting requests and commercial agreement reviews through the optimization of the contract management repository.
• Ensure absolute precision, evidentiary depth, and accuracy across all case folders, defensive strategies, and court-ready documentation involving GPSEA.
• Draft and review commercial agreements and MoUs to completely eliminate organizational liability, ensure rigorous adherence to data privacy, and defend Greenpeace’s intellectual property.
• Deliver high-standard legal risk profiles to governance boards, and ensure structurally sound, legally compliant handling of intricate donor legacies, estates, and complex bequests.
• Guarantee the strategic accuracy and structural quality of all compliance training modules provided to internal personnel, interns, and volunteers.

Skills and Experience Requirements:

Greenpeace’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Greenpeace values diversity as essential to its mission and success. The organisation fosters an inclusive environment that respects varied cultural experiences and perspectives, promoting solutions rooted in social and environmental justice.

Deadline for applications: 26 July 2026

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Dove is an official sponsor of the FIFA World Cup 2026, spending millions to sell itself as a brand that cares about men.

Its plastic packaging tells a different story.

Plastic in the package, really? 

• Sperm counts have dropped by nearly 62% since the 1974 World Cup. Doctors are sounding alarms that chemicals found in plastics could be a cause. 
• Studies show microplastics may be showing up in penile tissue and semen.

Why it matters

Dove and its parent company Unilever, put more than 698,000 tonnes of plastic into the market every year. Plastic pollution is making its way into men’s bodies. 

Dove knows healthier, plastic-free, reusable options exist. It continues to choose single-use plastic anyway. Plastic packaging isn’t a necessity. It’s Dove’s choice.

The World Cup is being played this summer in our own backyard, and the spotlight on Dove has never been brighter. If enough of us speak up now, together we can make Dove kick plastic out for good.

Help us make some noise! Share our post on Instagram or LinkedIn. #Plastics

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European NATO has four years to re-establish ‘escalation dominance’ over Russia, conference hears
News release
jon.wallace
9 July 2026

Following this week’s Ankara NATO summit, General Sir Richard Barrons told the Chatham House London Conference that European countries must act to re-establish deterrence in the light of US drawdown in Europe.

Leading voices from policymaking, business and academia gathered at Chatham House’s 2026 London Conference on 9 July under the theme of ‘a route to order in an evolving world’. The event opened with a panel discussing the issues confronting UK defence, the threat from Russia and the war in Ukraine – and strained relations within NATO, following the alliance summit this week in Ankara.

Speaking at the conference’s opening panel, General Sir Richard Barrons, a senior consulting fellow with Chatham House and a co-author of the UK’s 2025 Strategic Defence Review (SDR), said that the conversation about the US drawdown of commitment to NATO can no longer be abstract.  

As a result, he argued, European NATO countries must seek to re-establish a relationship of ‘escalation dominance’ with Russia – that is ‘a certainty that you deter because you are more powerful’. This must be done, he said ‘with far less reliance on the US, inside four years.’

The UK and NATO

Speaking at the same panel, former NATO Secretary-General Lord George Robertson, another co-author of the UK’s SDR, said that the Ankara NATO summit was in many ways a great success for its ‘ironclad commitment to Article 5 and to collective security…to get all of the 32 countries, including the United States, to sign up to that is crucially important.’