News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 75
SRI LANKA: A Nation Struggles to Forget a Tragedy
- Inter Press Service
Waves hitting a train and carriages half submerged in water. Scores of men, women and children leaping above the water, hands outstretched, bodies strewn all over.
LEBANON: Hip-hop Kindles Hopes in Destroyed Refugee Camp
- Inter Press Service
The hip-hop beats ringing through the muddy, unlit streets of this burnt-out Palestinian refugee camp seem incongruous. But the rhymes are camp-grown - and courageous.
GENDER/LANGUAGE: Rejecting the Derogatory 'Feminine'
- Inter Press Service
What happens to language and the way women are addressed when they start to occupy positions of responsibility? Well, it depends on the language.
SOUTH SUDAN: A More Gender Representative Leadership
- Inter Press Service
As the general elections scheduled for April 2010 draw nearer in Africa’s largest country ravaged by a long drawn war, the scramble for political positions is rife as women struggle to make their presence felt.
NEPAL: Witch Tag Only on Dalits, Minorities
- Inter Press Service
Just 40 kms away from the capital Kathmandu, in Thasingtole, Lalitpur District, Kalli Kumari B.K., 46, a local Dalit woman, was mercilessly beaten up. She was accused of being a 'witch', imprisoned in a shed and forced to eat her own excreta
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Field of Dreams
- Inter Press Service
Dominicans have an extraordinary passion for baseball. All young boys play the game, sometimes with uniforms and equipment on a town baseball diamond, sometimes using coconut shells and old planks as ball and bat on an empty street or sand lot.
POLITICS: China Revives Confucianism to Win the World Over
- Inter Press Service
As western nations and the values of liberal capitalism received a battering in the financial storm, China’s emergence as a pillar of economic stability and growth has fed a new craze in all things Chinese — from language to philosophy and culture.
RIGHTS-INDIA: Hi-Tech Beats Sex Selection Ban
- Inter Press Service
When a magistrate in the western port city of Mumbai convicted two doctors in November for advertising sex selection services, it showed determination to enforce laws aimed at stopping gender determination tests linked to the mass abortion of female foetuses.
ZAMBIA: Let our Chiefs Govern
- Inter Press Service
The Litunga of Barotseland, King of the Lozi, has no judicial or legislative authority. No supervisory control over government projects, and worst of all he cannot stand for elected office. Yet successive Zambian presidents have deferred to him.
RIGHTS-EGYPT: Bloggers Name and Shame Torturers
- Inter Press Service
People might expect fresh-faced Noha Atef to spend a lot of time writing blogs and perusing social networking sites, but they are often surprised by the content of her posts and tweets. The 25-year-old Egyptian journalist uses the Internet to expose police abuse and torture in her home country.
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