News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 102
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Tough Terror Laws Part of Routine Policing?
- Inter Press Service
Civil libertarians are concerned that significant powers wielded by authorities in order to conduct investigations into terrorism-related activities are being normalised and made available for less serious crimes.
TRADE-TANZANIA: Crafts Business Disproves Myths About Disability
- Inter Press Service
After Joel Haule developed a crippling childhood disease that left him wheelchair-bound, his parents began calling him ‘‘Matatizo’’, the Kiswahili word for ‘‘problems’’.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Hopes Pinned on Reinstated Justices
- Inter Press Service
As he resumes office as Chief Justice of Pakistan on Tuesday, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry will doubtless mull over the years since Mar. 9, 2007 when he was first unceremoniously sacked by then president Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Hopes Pinned on Reinstated Justices
- Inter Press Service
As he resumes office as Chief Justice of Pakistan on Tuesday, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry will doubtless mull over the 17 months since Mar. 9, 2007 when he was unceremoniously sacked by then president Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
FILM-US: Latino Fest in the Fray of Pop Culture's Lucha Libre
- Inter Press Service
The San Diego Latino Film Festival is perhaps the biggest little film festival most people outside of Southern California have never heard of.
Q&A: ‘‘The Market Is Not a Deity And We Are Not At Its Mercy’’
- Inter Press Service
Churches from South Africa and Germany are critically interrogating neoliberal globalisation in a process that they want to take up to United Nations level and also to their congregations ‘‘to build responsibility among people for what is happening in their world’’.
NICARAGUA: Caribbean Women Face Double Discrimination
- Inter Press Service
The first criminal prosecution for racial discrimination in Nicaragua, in response to a complaint brought by a woman lawmaker in the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), has focused attention on the segregationist treatment of indigenous and Afro-Caribbean women in the Caribbean coastal regions.
RIGHTS-BURMA: Junta Lets UN Continue Helping Muslim Rohingyas
- Inter Press Service
For now, the United Nations’ refugee agency has been given breathing room to operate in a western corner of military-ruled Burma, where humanitarian programmes offer some comfort to the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority.
RELIGION-PAKISTAN: Bombing Closes Shrine Off For Women
- Inter Press Service
Few women are visiting the mausoleum of the famous 17th century mystic poet Abdul Rehman Baba since suspected Pakistani Taliban bombed it.
PHILIPPINES/US: Women's Groups Back Recanting Rape Victim
- Inter Press Service
Nicole, the Filipina who accused a United States serviceman of raping her in 2005, has recanted her testimony, but women’s groups supporting her in the case do not see this development as a defeat.
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