News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 87
RIGHTS-INDIA: HIV-Positive Women Get User Rights to Till Land
- Inter Press Service
Till four months back, 33-year-old Mugil hardly ventured out of her parent’s home, preferring to stay indoors and tend to the household chores.
CUBA: Raising Awareness about Racial Discrimination
- Inter Press Service
Intellectuals and artists concerned about continued racial discrimination in Cuba are attempting to revive the Cofradía de la Negritud (CONEG), a 'brotherhood' or association of black people aimed at raising awareness of the problem.
WOMEN-PAKISTAN: Domestic Violence Bill Draws Mixed Reactions
- Inter Press Service
A historic bill seeking to punish domestic abuse still raises doubts about its ability to meet the goal it sets out to do: end violence against women.
CHILE: Building the Bicentennial Society?
- Inter Press Service
The Chilean government has embarked on major works of infrastructure, national programmes and 28 competitions, in preparation for the 2010 celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the country's independence. But the bicentennial projects, which began this month, have drawn their share of criticism.
Q&A: ‘We Need Small Government That Can Restore Economic Growth’
- Inter Press Service
Many of the old guards of Japan’s longtime ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) were banished from the political landscape in the aftermath of the Aug. 30 general election in Japan. Ending the LDP’s long-running grip on power is opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which won a historic landslide victory.
CHINA: Han Chinese Blame Regional Chief for Xinjiang Unrest
- Inter Press Service
Chinese communist party’s monopoly on power in the restive western region of Xinjiang is now contested not just by the disgruntled Turkic-speaking Uyghur ethnic group but also by the Han Chinese, who up till now had shown support of Beijing’s policies and rallied to defend its interests.
MEDIA-ASIA: Proofreaders Going Extinct in Newsrooms
- Inter Press Service
They were usually the first to arrive at work and the last to leave, and often took the blame for boo-boos in the following day's issue of the newspaper. Now the newsroom's unsung heroes, who engage in a daily deadline battle armed only with their sharp eye for detail and those squiggly proofreading marks, are facing a new kind of threat -- extinction.
MUSIC-BRAZIL: A School Without Teachers
- Inter Press Service
The participation of renowned professional musicians as instructors and special guests at workshops, instead of academic professors, is what sets Brazil’s Bituca University of Popular Music apart, and is earning it a reputation as a model of experimentation and excellence in music education.
ISRAEL: Madonna Applauded for her Silence
- Inter Press Service
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Il Jung, Hitler, the Holocaust, ecological disasters, poverty in Africa, wars around the world, Obama and Martin Luther King: the appropriate images were all there, an overwhelming backdrop on the huge stage for the Queen of Pop's rendition of her song, 'Get Stupid' in Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park.
DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: Three Scouts Trek 600 Km for Peace
- Inter Press Service
It is a walk that no one has taken in the last quarter of a century. The nation having been beset by a bloody sectarian war, who would have thought of travelling the length of Sri Lanka south to north, let alone walk the distance, in the name of peace?
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