News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 104
Iconoclastic Young Filmmakers Look at Real Issues in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
Lighting up dark areas of Cuban society with youthful vigour, Muestra Joven (the Young Cinema Exhibition), a local independent film event, reached its 10th anniversary characterised by experimentation and subjects that are both complex and invisible in the national media.
CUBA: Varadero's Architectural Heritage Threatened by Tourism
- Inter Press Service
Important architectural works from the Modern movement in Cuba appear to be doomed as a result of the expansion of massive hotel complexes, which threaten to take over the landscape in Varadero, this country's most famous beach resort.
Q&A: Ordinary Women Have Extraordinary Stories to Tell
- Inter Press Service
Ordinary women's voices are too often ignored when it comes to solving their own problems, admonishes Loga Virahsawmy, Director of the Southern African NGO Gender Links, Mauritius and Francophone Office.
ARGENTINA: Early Treatment Can Stop Stuttering in Children
- Inter Press Service
British actor Colin Firth's sensitivity and skill in portraying one man's determination to overcome stuttering, in 'The King's Speech', did more than any campaign in Argentina to show people that with timely intervention, the lives of tens of thousands of children can change.
OP-ED: Zambian TV Ads Threaten Women's Gains
- Inter Press Service
Five years since Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was elected president in Liberia, it appears there is a systematic campaign to remind African women that their place is still in the kitchen. And advertisers of detergent powders and other cleaning products appear to be the main culprits.
Q&A: 'Education Must Reach the Marginalised'
- Inter Press Service
Although more girls are enrolling in school - notably in countries with the greatest gender gaps like Chad, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Yemen - two-thirds of the world's illiterate adults are still women.
SRI LANKA: Cricket Unites Fractured Island
- Inter Press Service
Twenty-year-old Veethirasa Winston is planning his schedule meticulously for the next few weeks, making sure he keeps his diary free on days when Sri Lanka’s national team takes the cricket field.
ARGENTINA: Theatre's Far Fringe Gaining Spaces
- Inter Press Service
Unconventional venues for high-quality experimental theatre have found a voice of their own in the Argentine capital's cultural scene, and are demanding freedom from the red tape that is hindering their development.
INDIA: Whistleblowers Pay With Their Lives
- Inter Press Service
On a winter evening this January, Amarnath Pandey was returning home through a low-lit alley of a suburban town in India’s heartland state Uttar Pradesh when a motorcycle-riding gunman suddenly appeared and fired at him.
HUNGARY: Media Struggles to Find a Free Voice
- Inter Press Service
EU pressure may force Hungary to step back on some provision of its controversial media law, but its main goal has been achieved before it even took effect: media are intimidated.
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