News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 86
BRAZIL: Art is the Best Education
- Inter Press Service
A broad range of projects in Brazil are using ballet and folk dances, classical and popular music, theatre, circus arts, capoeira - an Afro-Brazilian combination of dance and martial arts - fashion, visual arts and the audiovisual media to reach disadvantaged and at-risk children.
RIGHTS-INDIA: Gujarat State on Trial for Extrajudicial Killings
- Inter Press Service
When police in western Gujarat state claimed to have shot dead four members of the militant Lashkar-e-Toiba (Soldiers of God) group, otherwise known as LeT, including a 19-year-old girl student, on Jun. 15, 2004, in an ‘encounter,’ few believed them.
MIDEAST: To Rap Is to Resist
- Inter Press Service
In a backstreet open-air café in Gaza late at night, Khaled Harara from the Black Unit Band starts to talk about rap.
SRI LANKA: Gov’t to Resettle Displaced Tamils Ahead of Monsoon
- Inter Press Service
The Sri Lankan government, accused of keeping the refugees who fled fighting between the military and Tamil rebels against their will, is preparing to resettle these minority civilians ahead of next month’s monsoon period, officials from non-government agencies said Friday.
MEDIA-ASIA: Senior Citizens Log On to the Wide, Wired World
- Inter Press Service
They may be in their twilight years but Asia’s senior citizens are not ready to be left behind -- and forgotten -- by the wide, wired world.
BRAZIL: Artistic Energy as Antidote to Exclusion
- Inter Press Service
Putting the power of art to the test in extreme situations has become an unintended but necessary task for the Axé Project, a Brazilian non-governmental organisation (NGO) aimed at creating the conditions for street kids and other at-risk children to overcome educational, family and community exclusion.
SRI LANKA: Women Want Better Pay, Out of Free Trade Zones
- Inter Press Service
The room is dingy and cramped. The walls are unplastered and its rough cement edges can scrape the skin easily. Furniture is strewn all over the place, plastic chairs stacked one on top of the other, boxes on top of them, handbags hanging from the wall and clothes on a rack. A small kerosene cooker is kept on the side of the room while a bicycle is parked next to the only bed in the 10-by-10-feet room.
DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Muslim Community Leaders Join AIDS Fight
- Inter Press Service
Muslim religious leaders may seem too conservative to promote the message of safe sex to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic. But that image seems to be changing. Thanks to community-based organisations and young social entrepreneurs working quietly in villages.
SERBIA: Media Wakes Up to New Curbs
- Inter Press Service
A controversial new law on media came into force in Serbia Tuesday, raising fears that freedom of expression will now be restricted by censorship or self- censorship.
LATIN AMERICA: Women in History - More than Just Heroines
- Inter Press Service
Juana Azurduy or Manuela Sáenz, Bartolina Sisa or Gertrudis Bocanegra, Luisa Cáceres or Policarpa Salavarrieta - these heroines attest to the participation of women in the struggle for Latin America’s independence from Spain, a revolutionary movement that began two centuries ago this year.
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