News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 66
Case to Abolish Gambian Death Penalty Falls on Toothless Court
- Inter Press Service
BANJUL, Dic 14 (IPS) - The court of justice for the West African economic community is expected to hear a civil society case calling for the abolition of the death penalty in the Gambia this December, four months after the execution of nine prisoners shocked the world.
First Muslim Human Rights Commission to Launch End December
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 14 (IPS) - Gathering for the first time here in Washington, representatives of the newly established human rights commission of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) stated Thursday that they plan to start their substantive work by the end of the month.
Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorism Law Squelches Opposition, Activists Say
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Dic 06 (IPS) - Ethiopia's Anti-Terrorism Proclamation is once again stirring debate in this Horn of Africa nation as lawyer Temam Ababulga challenges the 2009 law in the highly-publicised "Muslim terrorism" case.
Media Giant Advances on Taiwan
- Inter Press Service
TAIPEI, Dic 02 (IPS) - Taiwan civic reform, journalist and labour organisations have mobilised against the acquisition of the large Next Media (Taiwan) group by tycoons linked with China. They say this threatens Taiwan's news freedom and even the survival of its democratic political system.
Ethiopia Throttles Rights Organisations
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Nov 22 (IPS) - The world received contradictory signals about Ethiopia's human rights record when in the same week it was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council, a major German charity closed its Ethiopian office in protest against a restrictive political environment.
Political Provocateurs Expose Kenya’s “MaVultures”
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Nov 21 (IPS) - A new website linking corruption and other scandals to high-ranking Kenyan politicians, created by a team of political provocateurs, has become one of the most-visited web pages in the country.
Israel Throttles Palestinian Television
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, Nov 14 (IPS) - George Sahhar opens the door to a closet-sized control room, where a cacophony of wires, routers, papers, and computer screens are messily strewn across a desk.
Trinidad's Broadcasters Rebel over Govt Airtime Demands
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Nov 13 (IPS) - Nearly three years after it came to power promising to uphold press freedom, Trinidad and Tobago's coalition government is under fire for demanding free airtime from local broadcasters.
Q&A: "They Demanded I Behave. I Decided Not To"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 (IPS) - Khadija Ismayilova has been threatened with blackmail by her own government. She has been branded an "enemy of the state", mainly for her exposés of official corruption.
Q&A: Exposing the Good, the Bad and the Lack of Media Freedom
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 04 (IPS) - Pansy Tlakula, the African Union's Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, has done her best to address the continued harassment of journalists in the Gambia.
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