News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 109
MEDIA: U.N. Press Corps Protest Rented Offices
- Inter Press Service
Every U.N. secretary-general since Norway's Trygve Lie back in 1946 believed in the concept of a free press - including rent-free offices to journalists covering the United Nations.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/ RIGHTS-CHINA: Path to Modernisation Disastrous - Charter 08
- Inter Press Service
When China’s human rights record comes up for review before a key United Nations panel on Monday, this nominally communist country will have two contrasting accounts of its human rights situation.
RIGHTS-CHINA: Path to Modernisation Disastrous - Charter 08
- Inter Press Service
When China’s human rights record comes up for review before a key United Nations panel on Monday, this nominally communist country have two contrasting two contrasting accounts of its human rights situation.
SRI LANKA: 'Govt Targets Media Under Civil War Cover'
- Inter Press Service
Sri Lanka’s ruling establishment has become increasingly intolerant towards the island country’s independent media, even as President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government steps up its military offensive against separatist Tamil militants in the north.
PAKISTAN: Bracing For More Drone Attacks
- Inter Press Service
On Jan 23, days after Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the United States, a series of missiles slammed into Pakistan’s tribal areas along the Afghan border - in continuation of Washington’s policy of targeting al-Qaeda and Taliban elements regardless of sovereignty issues.
ECONOMY: Germany Helping South Africa With 2010 Soccer World Cup?
- Inter Press Service
As the building of new soccer stadiums and transport infrastructure in South Africa steam ahead, little seems to have come of the agreed assistance by the host of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Germany, to the 2010 FIFA World Cup host, South Africa.
TRADE-UGANDA: ‘‘Green’’ Burial Cloth Gets New Lease on Life
- Inter Press Service
Bark cloth, a fabric historically used by the Buganda in central Uganda to wrap their dead before burial, is making a comeback in the form of trendy crafts, clothing and household goods.
INDIA/PAKISTAN: Artists Take On Post-Colonial Partitions
- Inter Press Service
With national boundaries continually being redrawn in the post-colonial world, it’s time to deal with the reality of partitions and find a way 'to make peace with our partitioned selves', contends international banker-turned-art curator Hammad Nasar.
POLITICS: Israel, Iran, Pakistan World's Least Popular Nations
- Inter Press Service
Israel, Iran, North Korea and Pakistan are widely seen as exerting the most negative influence on world affairs, according to the latest in a series of annual global surveys by the BBC's World Service on popular perceptions of the world's most powerful or newsworthy nations.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Change National Day Say Indigenous People
- Inter Press Service
Australia's national day is celebrated annually with much fanfare. But Jan.26, which marks the establishment of the colony of New South Wales more than 200 years ago, is viewed by many indigenous activists as the anniversary of the European invasion of their land.
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