News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 52
DEVELOPMENT: Women Adamant for Change as the Maldives Struggles to Reform
- Inter Press Service
Authorities in the Maldives view women’s issues as a core human rights problem and are keen to tackle them head on, but cultural and religious issues often stand in the way.
BRAZIL: Murky Finances Haunt 2014 Football World Cup
- Inter Press Service
Delays in construction to prepare for the 2014 football World Cup, to be hosted by Brazil, bring to mind the budget overruns and the secretive bidding process ahead of the Pan-American Games held in Rio de Janeiro in 2007.
Female Presence Growing in Brazil's Gangs
- Inter Press Service
They are no longer simply the girlfriends of gang members. Women have increasingly become members themselves of Brazil's youth gangs over the past decade -- though they have yet to reach the leadership positions of their male colleagues.
CUBA: Church-State Dialogue Sends 'Signals' to the World
- Inter Press Service
The talks between the Catholic Church and the Cuban government are unprecedented in several respects in this socialist island nation, and this should be taken into account by the international community, experts say.
COLOMBIA: Drug Trade's Hold on Football Persists
- Inter Press Service
Football, the most popular sport in Colombia, has been subject to heavy pressures from drug trafficking since the mid-1970s. A new study shows that the illicit trade continues to tarnish the upper echelons of this sport.
JAPAN: Left-Behind Parents Want End to Single Child Custody System
- Inter Press Service
Masako Suzuki, 50, has been fighting tooth and nail for the last six years just to gain equal custody of her son, who lives with her estranged husband.
SWAZILAND: Focus on Infants in HIV Prevention
- Inter Press Service
A proud mother, Nonhlanhla Mabuza cuddles her one-day-old baby boy, at the circumcision clinic of Raleigh Fitkin Memorial (RFM) Hospital. A day after delivering her second son, Thabiso Dlamini, the 20-year-old mother is not only beaming because she has just successfully delivered her tiny little tot — her bundle of joy has just undergone male circumcision.
CHINA: Feeling Lost, ‘Homowives’ Often Struggle Alone
- Inter Press Service
Wang Yibing had been married three years before she found out her husband was gay. He had known all along, yet, like many homosexual men in China, had chosen to enter into a traditional marriage to reduce the pressure he was feeling from his family and society.
Critical Media Hit by Legal Actions in Venezuela
- Inter Press Service
Guillermo Zuloaga, owner of the Globovisión television channel has fled Venezuela to avoid an arrest warrant issued by a court a week after President Hugo Chávez complained that Zuloaga was not being held in prison pending trials for illegal business practices, and for remarks that were deemed 'offensive' to the president.
LATIN AMERICA: Photos a Leveller for Maids and Their Employers
- Inter Press Service
Fifty pairs of women -- maids and their employers -- from Argentina, Chile and Colombia abandoned their daily routines to pose for photographs for a project about the hierarchical relationship that unites them.
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