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Sustainable forestry may be an oxymoron. Chris Lang finds some holes in the system.

Escaping the pressures of modern life in Japan. By Tina Burrett and Christopher Simons.

It happens every year: thousands of hectares of Indonesian rainforest are torched to clear land for palm oil, timber and other agribusiness operations. It’s a perfect storm of destruction. Nithin Coca reports from Sumatra.

The world’s last great woodlands are fast disappearing – with untold consequences for the environment and for us. Time to stop the destruction, argues Wayne Ellwood.

It’s clear that we will not achieve gender equality unless we work positively with faith communities, including with men and boys, writes Helen Dennis.

In this month’s podcast, our friends at the Tax Justice Network ask ‘is the US president really serious about tackling corruption in the finance sector?’

Though facing overwhelming struggles of their own, teachers at the NUT conference in Brighton have been showing a true spirit of internationalism, writes Jo Lateu.

We pretend that people are not condemned to the caste system, Mari Marcel Thekaekara writes.

Our pain and rage are immense, but we need reason and understanding more than ever, Frank Barat writes.

Local activists are expecting a brutal crackdown from the police, writes John Richards.

The costs of the 50-year conflict add up to ecocide. Doug Weir reports.

Tabitha Ross describes how the conflict is affecting women exposed to gender-based violence, and the vital work of one Lebanese organization seeking to combat it.

Internet users used to be worried about government control of the web but the opposite may be true, writes Chris Spannos

The struggle for real Fairtrade is reminiscent of gladiator battles, writes Ben O'Hanlon.

Domestic violence has deep roots within modern society, but too often our legal system privileges the status quo instead of protecting the vulnerable, writes Brian Loffler.