News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 50
More Than 200 Ways of Becoming a Mother
- Inter Press Service
'You can only have one mother,' as the saying goes, but in Brazil there are 215 ways of becoming a mother, one for each of the ethnic groups in this South American country. Promoting maternal health while respecting cultural traditions is a major health challenge.
THAILAND: For Transgenders, Identity Papers Are No Simple Matter
- Inter Press Service
In New Zealand, where Sujinrat Prachathai enjoys resident status, she is a woman able to append ‘Mrs’ to her name to signify that she is married. Here in Thailand, however, she has to be addressed as ‘Mr’ since she is still considered male even though she underwent a sex-change operation years ago.
SPORTS: Power and Passion Put Football Above the Law
- Inter Press Service
The FIFA Football World Cup is presented -- and felt emotionally by millions -- as a contest amongst countries in which national honour is at stake. But it is also a private business, controlled by a small group of people who exploit patriotism and foment rivalries in marketing the 'product.'
INDIA: ‘Green Cremation’ Gets A Second Look
- Inter Press Service
Unmindful of the monsoons lashing the Dehradun area in the Himalayan foothills in northern India, Girdhari Singh returns from work daily with a headload of wood that he finds along the road, and stacks it to dry in the cattleshed.
Football Leaves Legacy of Hope in Namibia
- Inter Press Service
Throughout the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, organisers have insisted that the legacy of the even goes far beyond the sporting spectacle. In the dusty streets of a Windhoek township, Deon Namiseb believes this is true.
Controversy Dogs Brazil's Racial Equality Law
- Inter Press Service
The Statute of Racial Equality, soon to be signed into law in Brazil, is at the centre of a controversy between those who consider it a historical achievement, like the abolition of slavery in 1888, and those who see it as failing to satisfy the demands of the black movement.
MEXICO: Local Media in the Line of Fire
- Inter Press Service
It is open season on local media in states and cities in the interior of Mexico, which are virtually unprotected against violent attack and have been the worst hit by the murders of at least eight journalists this year.
SWAZILAND: Women MPs Limited by the Patriarchal System
- Inter Press Service
Minah Ndzinisa spends every day selling fruit and vegetables at the outdoor Mbabane Market, braving the rain, wind and cold for almost 20 years. 'I was in the same cold even in the 1990s when we used to have only one woman Member of Parliament.'
THAILAND: Sexuality 101 Exhibit Says It Straight
- Inter Press Service
Teenage boys gape at a coloured photograph of a vagina, while girls give embarrassed smiles as they watch a cartoon that showed penises 'talking' about masturbation. Young girls crowd around a display panel about love and relationships, as a boy embraces a female mannequin with all his might in order to measure the strength of his hug.
PAKISTAN: More Action, Less Words, Needed to Ease Population Bulge
- Inter Press Service
While militancy, power outages and skyrocketing food prices hog the limelight in parliamentary and media discussions in Pakistan, health experts warn that it is a neglected issue — the population bulge — that will prove to be a more insidious problem.
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