Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is the name of a World Bank sponsored carbon offset program. The idea is to pay owners of forests in the global South to stop deforestation as a way of reducing carbon emissions.
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In 1978, John Reid, chair of James Hardie Industries, boasted: 鈥淓very time you walk into an office building, a home, a factory; every time you put your foot on the brake, ride in a train 鈥 the chances are that a product from the James Hardie group of companies has a part in it鈥.
The NSW state government is introducing police powers similar to those during the APEC meeting in Sydney in 2007.
A Colombian human rights group has accused the Australia Federal Police (AFP) of illegally interrogating political prisoner Liliany Obando in a Bogata jail.
Battlelines
By Tony Abbott
Melbourne University Press, 2009
$34.99, 187 pages
In 2008, Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett promised voters the ALP state government would no longer guarantee financial support to forestry giant Gunns鈥 unpopular pulp mill proposal for the Tamar Valley, near Launceston.
In July, the suicide of a 14-year-old girl brought attention to an appallingly under-reported issue 鈥 mental health among young people and youth suicide.
鈥滻 feel very sad to be leaving, but happy and proud to receive your great gift of solidarity with the people of Venezuela and Latin America鈥, Daniel Sanchez, a community leader from Valencia, Venezuela, told an audience of 50 at the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) hall on September 17.
Quique Cruz sums up the story of his long life journey towards the creation of an extraordinary work of art and human testimony called Archaeology of Memory: 鈥淭he day after my nineteenth birthday, I was detained by Pinochet鈥檚 secret police and spent one month as a desaparecido in the Villa Grimaldi torture centre.
The Mt Victoria to Lithgow upgrade of the Great Western Highway was conceived for one election campaign and its life may be extinguished with another. It has caused everything from bemusement to misery and has distracted attention from needier causes.
Eighteen-year-old South African athlete Caster Semenya has done nothing wrong. Yet she has been accused of deceiving the world about her gender. There is nothing wrong with Semenya鈥檚 body. Yet her body has been paraded in front of the world by the mass media as if she were a sideshow freak.
鈥淐onstant fighting and threats to health workers have forced the closure of at least 11 of the 38 health facilities across [Kandahar] province, the population of which is estimated at over one million鈥, provincial health officials said, IRIN reported on September 17.
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