News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 101
YEMEN: Youth Ready to Confront Gender Roles
- Inter Press Service
Despite being at the forefront of sweeping changes taking place in the country, the lives of the majority of Yemeni women are restricted to early marriage, motherhood and serving husbands, according to a new study by Women Without Borders (WWB), a Vienna based public relations and advocacy platform for women’s voices around the world.
THAILAND: Debate on Monarchy Tests Academic Freedom
- Inter Press Service
History professor Somsak Jeamteerasakul has weathered a storm of insults since mid-December for doing the forbidden: he offered an alternative assessment of the most dominant institution in the country, its monarchy, in a forum at his university. Now military officials are dropping hints he could face more than just verbal attacks.
ARGENTINA: Free Books in Public Places to Woo Readers
- Inter Press Service
'This book has not been lost. It has no owner; it is part of the Argentine Free Book Movement, and it was left in this place so that you would find it.'
BAHRAIN: McCarthyism in Manama?
- Inter Press Service
As the savage crackdown on the majority Shiite opposition movement drags on in Bahrain, King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa's military regime — backed by the hefty armed forces of Sunni- dominated Saudi Arabia — has moved from launching outright assaults on peaceful protestors on the streets of Manama in broad daylight into the murky waters of what experts are calling state terror, featuring all the old tactics of petrifying a population into submission.
The Royal Are More Royal Outside Britain
- Inter Press Service
Quite a treat Britain has on offer for the world these days. Or who would ever have been talking - in this day and age - about a prince and princess riding in splendour into a world of pageboys and palaces.
GUATEMALA: Theatre as HIV Prevention Tool in Native Communities
- Inter Press Service
Poverty, lack of access to education and taboos about sexuality have hampered campaigns for the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS among indigenous communities in Guatemala. These constraints have led to the development of new ways of communicating vital information, like theatre.
CUBA: Youth, Love and Sex — Fewer Constraints
- Inter Press Service
Cuba's young people today feel they have more freedom to navigate the waters of romantic feelings in an uncomplicated way.
CUBA: The 'Other' Revolutions
- Inter Press Service
YES to sexual diversity! NO to transgenics! LONG LIVE @! In stark contrast to the political apathy of many of their contemporaries, some sectors of Cuban youth are radically re-writing the standard slogans, opting for active participation and fomenting 'new revolutions within the Revolution.'
CUBA: Gender Inequality Persists Behind Closed Doors
- Inter Press Service
While gender roles have changed since Cuba's 1959 revolution, inequalities persist among men and women in private life, and young people are both accepting that and breaking with it.
PHILIPPINES: Religious Groups Weigh In on Reproductive Health Debate
- Inter Press Service
In a country where an estimated 4,500 women die every year due to complications during childbirth, the enactment of a reproductive health (RH) policy is said to be a measure that could save lives.
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