News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 153
JAPAN: Careers On Hold For Most Women
- Inter Press Service
Tomoko Ando and her husband divorced because she refused to quit her job as a lawyer and start a family. The shortage of daycare centres has created a dilemma for women like Ando who want to continue working, but also start a family.
MEDIA: 2009 Deadliest Year Ever For Journalists
- Inter Press Service
The election-related killings of more than 30 media workers in the Philippines made 2009 the deadliest year ever for journalists, according to a major press freedom advocacy group.
ZAMBIA: Violence Threatens Polls
- Inter Press Service
Prisca Musonda is an ardent supporter of Patriotic Front leader Michael Sata and his party. She has travelled with him to most parliamentary constituencies campaigning in elections.
SOUTH SUDAN: Women Perpetuate Culture of Submission
- Inter Press Service
All day Rosalinda Duany sells vegetables from her stall at the local market, earning a living to feed her family while her husband spends his days idling with his friends.
DEVELOPMENT-THAILAND: Fish, Not Dams
- Inter Press Service
Seventy-one-year old Kham, a woman from Napho Klang, left home early in the morning of Dec. 14 to join a ritual to revitalise the Mekong River, which passes through this part of north-eastern Thailand.
BURMA: A Celebration of Life through the Arts under the Junta
- Inter Press Service
The Burmese military spares nothing with its iron grip on power — not even art.
ZAMBIA: Chief Justice Accused by Opposition of Collusion
- Inter Press Service
Chief justice Ernest Sakala has been accused of colluding with the president’s administration to protect high-profile people accused of corruption, but the Law Association of Zambia has rejected the charges as unfair.
CULTURE-TURKEY: Kurdish Directors Make 'National' Cinema
- Inter Press Service
A ban on the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party in Turkey has not deterred Kurdish filmmakers from all over the globe gathering in this southeastern city to continue their struggle for recognition through cultural means.
SIERRA LEONE: Woman Breaking Traditional Walls in Chieftaincy Elections
- Inter Press Service
A war is raging in the eastern part of the country, once the centre stage for battles during the 10-year civil war and the place where 'blood diamonds' where once mined.
ZAMBIA:: Justice Delayed Becoming Justice Denied
- Inter Press Service
Harry Mubita was tired of his wretched condition in prison. He had been in Lusaka Central Prison for more than a year, and still there was no sign that his theft case would be heard.
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