News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 71
RELIGION: Fighting Hunger - A Matter of Faith
- Inter Press Service
The world's major religions might disagree on theology and matters like the foods we ought to eat and the days we should rest on, but when it comes to fighting hunger, they see eye to eye.
MUSIC-BRAZIL: 'Enchanted' Guitars for Social Change
- Inter Press Service
Perfectly in tune, in spite of the off-key world of Terra Encantada ('Enchanted Land'), a shanty town in this Brazilian city, the guitars of Daniel Sant'Anna's orchestra strike up the 'Ode to Joy', played by children and teenagers who are looking for a way forward in their lives.
ROMANIA: Starting Early on Human Rights With School Textbook
- Inter Press Service
A textbook on human rights activism, being introduced in Romanian schools this year, steers away from preaching and uses interviews with global and local rights activists to suggest how young people may get involved.
MIGRATION: Lost in the Desert? There's an App for That
- Inter Press Service
Over the past two decades, Ricardo Dominguez has made a career for himself tweaking the sensibilities of government officials and developing software tools meant to disrupt the status quo.
MEXICO: Street Stalls, Web Visible Face of Neo-Nazism
- Inter Press Service
Street stalls in the centre of the Mexican capital openly display books and publications that are sympathetic to Adolf Hitler and Nazism, indicating that there is public demand for such items.
DEVELOPMENT: Natural Dye Omnibus Draws Top Researchers to India
- Inter Press Service
A 15-volume documentation of 3,000 natural dyes by a 19th century British textile entrepreneur will be the focus of an upcoming international seminar on natural dyes in India.
THAILAND: Talk of the Next Coup Raises Political Temperature
- Inter Press Service
A Thai national habit of openly speculating if this South-east Asian kingdom is on the verge of its next coup d’etat is in full flight.
BALKANS: Moderate Patriarch Sets New Course for Serb Church
- Inter Press Service
The enthronement of a moderate as patriarch of the influential Serbian Orthodox Church (SBC) has raised hopes for the planned integration of the country with the European Union (EU) and for Serbs coming to terms with the bloody Balkans wars of the 1990s.
PAKISTAN: Mental Illness among Women: Gender-Driven?
- Inter Press Service
No sooner does a visitor step into the facility than a surreal scene unfolds: The sound of laughter, the sight of ready smiles and vigorous, pumping handshakes mix with the acrid odor of an unwashed human body and the unbearable stench of neglect that in turn combines with the heavy smell of medicine.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Global South's Growing Role in Post-Crisis World
- Inter Press Service
'Society and Governments: debates and alternatives for a post-crisis world' is the name of a Thematic World Social Forum meeting being held in the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia.
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