At the same time, courts began to support students who were being punished for political and social dissent.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Several people are credited with being the first to use microfinance as a tool for social improvement.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

"What's happening right now is people are being arrested and they are being forced to hand over their passwords, a lot of the times, for their social media accounts.

VOA: special.2011.06.27

"You are sacrificing social programs, domestic programs here, which are being felt.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

"You have seen massive evidence of huge social impacts in South America,farmers, up to 90,000 farmers, being displaced from their land in places like Paraguay because of the advent of massive GM intensive mono cultures, urban poverty increasing, food security has decreased all across the southern corner of Latin America dramatically over the last decade,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.21