News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 135
RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: How the War Gave Tamil Women More Space
- Inter Press Service
Whenever Sri Lankan rights activist Shereen Xavier attends a meeting related to her work in this war-battered northern capital, she makes sure to be dressed in a sari, a traditional gown worn by South Asian women.
MEDIA: Press Freedom Day to Focus on Threats to Journos
- Inter Press Service
'Please remember that we know where your child goes to school.'
VENEZUELA: Yanomami Put Body Painting Down on Paper
- Inter Press Service
Men and women of the Yanomami people paint their bodies, drawing straight, curved, dotted and parallel lines, arcs and circles, triangles, rectangles, grids, spider's webs or rings, all arranged as if on a checkerboard.
THAILAND: Anti-Gov’t Protesters Use Cultural Taboo as Weapon
- Inter Press Service
'I know the word; I understand it; I love it,' street artist Chuwit Kunasawat said, using his pencil-thin brush, dipped in deep red ink, to paint on the right cheek of an anti-government protester.
WATER-ZAMBIA: Lozi Make Annual Migration to Higher Ground
- Inter Press Service
Josias Akataama spent March watching the moon wane above, and flood waters rise from below. Only with the sighting of the new moon, would the men, women and children of Kandiani know when they could leave the water-logged village for higher ground.
CHILE: Rebuilding Smiles
- Inter Press Service
Alongside crucial emergency relief efforts, numerous organisations are offering free movies, concerts, plays, comedy performances and other cultural events aimed at lifting the spirits of people suffering the after-effects of the earthquake and tsunami that struck central and southern Chile on Feb. 27.
IBSA - Closer Social Connections, Not Just Gov't Ties
- Inter Press Service
The IBSA Fund, which finances anti-poverty projects in the most vulnerable countries, is an example of the spirit in which India, Brazil and South Africa wish to build their partnership, their leaders say.
U.N. Blasted for Sequestering NGOs and Media
- Inter Press Service
A major structural renovation of the U.N. Secretariat is being used as a pretext to curb media access to delegates and Security Council members, and is also a veritable smokescreen to tighten restrictions on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) accredited to the world body, critics say.
PHILIPPINES: Women’s College Corrects Gender Miseducation
- Inter Press Service
Flip open a typical textbook used in many Philippine schools and you will likely find images of women illustrating verbs such as ‘cook’ or ‘clean the house’, but hardly appearing anywhere much in economics and history textbooks.
ENVIRONMENT: A Different Kind of Green
- Inter Press Service
The colour green has long been associated with Islam, but if some recent Muslim visitors here could have their way, it’s a link that could intensify some more in the future.
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