News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 60
JORDAN: Women Make Progress But Honour Killings Persist
- Inter Press Service
Earlier this month, a 33-year-old man was charged with hammering his wife to death and dumping her body on the highway leading to the Queen Alia International Airport. The husband confessed to murdering her ''to defend his honour,’’ as she was meeting a male friend.
MEDIA-ASIA: Parents Try to Keep Up with Net-savvy Youngsters
- Inter Press Service
Many parents are scratching their heads as they watch youngsters in the Asia- Pacific region create often-private online worlds, feeling lost over how to be a part of it and oversee their Internet lives.
RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: How the War Gave Tamil Women More Space
- Inter Press Service
Whenever Sri Lankan rights activist Shereen Xavier attends a meeting related to her work in this war-battered northern capital, she makes sure to be dressed in a sari, a traditional gown worn by South Asian women.
MEDIA: Press Freedom Day to Focus on Threats to Journos
- Inter Press Service
'Please remember that we know where your child goes to school.'
VENEZUELA: Yanomami Put Body Painting Down on Paper
- Inter Press Service
Men and women of the Yanomami people paint their bodies, drawing straight, curved, dotted and parallel lines, arcs and circles, triangles, rectangles, grids, spider's webs or rings, all arranged as if on a checkerboard.
THAILAND: Anti-Gov’t Protesters Use Cultural Taboo as Weapon
- Inter Press Service
'I know the word; I understand it; I love it,' street artist Chuwit Kunasawat said, using his pencil-thin brush, dipped in deep red ink, to paint on the right cheek of an anti-government protester.
WATER-ZAMBIA: Lozi Make Annual Migration to Higher Ground
- Inter Press Service
Josias Akataama spent March watching the moon wane above, and flood waters rise from below. Only with the sighting of the new moon, would the men, women and children of Kandiani know when they could leave the water-logged village for higher ground.
CHILE: Rebuilding Smiles
- Inter Press Service
Alongside crucial emergency relief efforts, numerous organisations are offering free movies, concerts, plays, comedy performances and other cultural events aimed at lifting the spirits of people suffering the after-effects of the earthquake and tsunami that struck central and southern Chile on Feb. 27.
IBSA - Closer Social Connections, Not Just Gov't Ties
- Inter Press Service
The IBSA Fund, which finances anti-poverty projects in the most vulnerable countries, is an example of the spirit in which India, Brazil and South Africa wish to build their partnership, their leaders say.
PHILIPPINES: Women’s College Corrects Gender Miseducation
- Inter Press Service
Flip open a typical textbook used in many Philippine schools and you will likely find images of women illustrating verbs such as ‘cook’ or ‘clean the house’, but hardly appearing anywhere much in economics and history textbooks.
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