Global Issues
News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 25
OP-ED: Foreign Policy Goes Gaga
- Inter Press Service
Lady Gaga and Alice Walker don't have much in common. One dresses in red meat; the other doesn't even eat the stuff. One writes lyrics like 'I want your ugly, I want your disease, I want your everything as long as it's free.' The other writes 'The Color Purple'.
BRAZIL: Women in Favelas Broadcast Peace
- Inter Press Service
Local women's voices have begun to be heard over a community radio station now broadcasting in Complexo do Alemao, a clump of favelas or shantytowns on the north side of this Brazilian city that were ruled until recently by armed drug gangs.
JAPAN: Aftershocks Hit Single Fathers
- Inter Press Service
In a matter of minutes on Mar. 11, 33-year-old Hiroshi Yoshida became a widower and a single father, as the massive tsunami swept over his home in Rikuzentakata in northern Japan and took away his wife and younger son.
INDIA: Kashmir Dreams of Bollywood
- Inter Press Service
If films are the voice of society, then Indian Kashmir is mute, with a virtually non-existent film industry and the subsequent inability to nurture local talent.
Cuban Twitterers Meet Face-to-Face
- Inter Press Service
'I want to meet @salvatore300 and @elainediaz2003' was a comment overheard at #TwittHab, the first meeting in Cuba of social network users. After years of being connected only via the web, the internet is now being used to facilitate real-world contact between citizens of this socialist island nation.
CUBA: Video Games Increasingly Popular
- Inter Press Service
Despite the many limitations on access to digital-age technology in Cuba, a taste for computer games is spreading in this country, giving rise to a youthful movement that is beginning to conquer new public spaces.
COLOMBIA: 'Impunity' — Keeping the 'Black Hand' Anonymous
- Inter Press Service
The film 'Impunity' has only just now arrived in Colombia, although the filming was completed a year ago and it was first shown to the public in Geneva in January. But the wait was apparently worth it because the documentary contributes key elements to the heated debate on the so-called 'black hand' behind many of the atrocities committed in this South American country.
PERU: Indigenous Women Weave New Community Ties
- Inter Press Service
Fuchsia, green and turquoise yarn shuttles swiftly across the wooden loom Dora Huancahuari has learned to use. Together with other craftswomen, she has started a small weaving business which is helping to rebuild their lives in this remote, poverty-stricken Andean community torn by Peru's history of armed conflict.
Q&A: 'Africa Can Provide More Than Minerals in South-South Trade'
- Inter Press Service
South-South co-operation is firmly on Africa’s agenda. Leading the way is South Africa, which has recently joined up with Brazil, Russia, India and China’s BRIC formation to form a new global grouping of emerging markets, known as BRICS.
'Microfinance Can Help Rural Communities Adapt to Climate Change'
- Inter Press Service
Projects to fight climate change are being designed all around the world. But only five percent of them can be financed with the current international funds available, which means resources have to be used more wisely. Microfinance could be one solution.
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