News headlines for “Racism”, page 100
FRANCE: Burqa Ban Keeps Immigration Issue Alive
- Inter Press Service
With the French regional elections coming up in March and a debate on national identity raging, the burqa polemic is keeping the immigration and 'values' issue alive here.
ASIA: ‘Post-Disaster Psychosocial Support a Must for Children’
- Inter Press Service
When disaster strikes, acute stress disorders, especially among children, may follow. Yet the need for early psychosocial interventions is often overlooked, if not ignored.
CULTURE-INDIA: Globalised Ice Cream Please, Big Scoop
- Inter Press Service
'Passport Please.' That's what everyone thought they'd ask if you queued up at that exclusive new ice cream shop in one of those smart new malls of fashionable south Delhi.
LAOS: Getting Women in the News Takes Much More than Policy
- Inter Press Service
Women’s empowerment may be a key policy of the Lao government, but this is far from obvious in this South-east Asian country’s newspapers and publications, many of which usually give more space to government pronouncements by male officials and pass on questionable stereotypes of women in their reportage.
SOUTH SUDAN: Changing of the Guard
- Inter Press Service
An old rite is long overdue in Paul Yugusak Tombe’s home village, in Central Equatoria State, south Sudan.
AUSTRALIA: Annual Festival Offers a Glimmer of Human Connectedness
- Inter Press Service
In a world beset with conflict, natural disasters and economic crisis, the 2010 Sydney Festival has been a celebration of human connectedness, bringing together 1,500 artists from 30 countries, performing to an audience of a million over a period of three weeks, beginning on Jan. 9.
ARTS: Cuban Musicians Resuming U.S. Performances
- Inter Press Service
New York City recently hosted its first Cuban band in five years, after the group Septeto Nacional became the first to win a visa that allowed it to accept a booking there.
INDIA: Hill Women Form Cooperative, Turn Entrepreneurs
- Inter Press Service
Women in Uttarkashi district of the hill state of Uttarakhand in India, traditionally sidelined from the developmental processes, are forming their own cooperative and producing processed food items, giving big multinational brands a run for their money in local markets.
DEVELOPMENT-CAMBODIA: Minority Languages Face Extinction
- Inter Press Service
One of Cambodia’s oldest languages — S’aoch — appears headed for extinction in the next decade. Other languages spoken by its minority people are lining up to take the place of the 6,000-year-old language in the most endangered category.
MEXICO: Activists Worried About 'Secret' Internet Treaty
- Inter Press Service
An international treaty to combat copyright infringement and piracy, being negotiated by Mexico and other countries, could curtail expansion of the internet, violate people's rights to privacy and freedom of expression, and undermine multilateral accords on intellectual property, activists warn.
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