Global Issues
News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 20
Q&A: 'We Do Not Want It To Be 'East' And 'West''
- Inter Press Service
About 80 percent of Qatar's population is foreign. Of the 1.6 million people living in the Arab emirate in 2010, 685,000 were Indian or Pakistani, 160,000 were Iranian and about 430,000 came from other parts of the world.
RIGHTS-JAMAICA: Wanted: Light-skinned only, please
- Inter Press Service
Revelations that proprietors are requesting light-skinned workers from a government training institution is putting a new spin on Jamaica's so-called obsession with skin bleaching.
PAKISTAN: Fighting a Taliban-Polio Alliance
- Inter Press Service
With Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province turning into the ‘polio capital of the world’, authorities are warning parents that heeding Taliban propaganda against oral polio vaccination (OPV) could earn them a prison sentence.
PAKISTAN: Flood Relief by Caste, Creed
- Inter Press Service
With just the clothes on their backs, Moora Sanafdhano, 68, and his family of nine waded through waist-deep flood waters swirling through their village of Allah Ditto Leghari, saving themselves in the nick of time.
NORTH KOREA: Women Wear Pants, Revive Markets
- Inter Press Service
North Korea’s communist government frowns upon women wearing pants, seeing it as a mark of ‘rotten bourgeois lifestyles.’ Yet, wives, literally wearing pants, are selling goods in the local markets to supplement their husbands’ meagre pay packets.
SOUTH AFRICA: 'Secrecy Bill' Step Backwards for Africa
- Inter Press Service
Critics call it 'the Secrecy Bill'. And it comes at a time when several African countries are adopting promising new legislation on access to information. But campaigners say South Africa's draft Protection of Information Bill represents a step backwards.
GREECE: Social Media Advances Against Elite Owners
- Inter Press Service
An unflattering report on Greece’s media by a former United States envoy to this country, revealed by Wikileaks, evoked little public reaction because it was taken as a faithful portrayal.
Inheriting the Whirlwind of Extreme Events
- Inter Press Service
The dramatic increase in extreme weather that has affected hundreds of millions across the planet is one of the clearest signs that burning billions of tonnes fossil fuels has seriously and permanently disrupted the global climate, experts say.
DR CONGO: Specialised Court for Serious Human Rights Abuses
- Inter Press Service
The Democratic Republic of Congo's parliament this month adopted a bill creating a Specialised Court for serious violations of human rights. The involvement of jurists from outside the DRC in running the court has quickly become a major talking point.
Low-Cost Healthcare Goes High-Tech
- Inter Press Service
Cell phones and computer applications can help save the lives of thousands of mothers and children worldwide.
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