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Tuesday, 06 December 2011 |
 Recently, social justice received a shot in the arm in the Philippines, when the Supreme Court issued a decision last month directing the Hacienda Luisita, Inc. (HLI) to directly distribute 4,916 hectares of farmland to the original 6,296 original farm worker beneficiaries and to pay PhP 1.3 billion (US$30.2 million) to the laborers as their share in the proceeds from a previous transaction where HLI sold 580 hectares of the hacienda.
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011 |
 The future of Asian forests and forest communities may very well hinge on what will soon come out of Durban, South Africa.
High-impact decisions regarding climate change, whether which way, are expected from the COP17/CMP7, the latest conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 28 November to 9 December.
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Wednesday, 23 November 2011 |
 During the past months, developments related to
the global economy and environment rapidly unfolded that bear watching.
For one, as it heads into recession, the European economy is
struggling to prevent a financial meltdown amid fears of debt default by the
Greek and Italian governments. Already,
many people in the European Union are reeling from a 10% unemployment rate (as
high as 49% among Spanish youth) and material deprivation or poverty rate of
15%.
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