News headlines for “Racism”, page 101
MEDIA-LATIN AMERICA: Women Deserve Better Press
- Inter Press Service
'The press will change when they cease to report exclusively from a masculine point of view,' Peru's deputy Minister for Women, Norma Añaños, told participants at an international seminar for journalists on 'Women at Work, Women as Leaders', held in the Peruvian capital.
ASIA: Artists Join Forces to Make a Difference in Mekong
- Inter Press Service
Nouv Srey Leab, 24, could not quite contain her excitement about the chance to participate in the just concluded regional arts and media festival held in this capital, believing it was one welcome occasion meet fellow artists from other countries in the Mekong sub-region.
ROMANIA: Business Crowds Out Bucharest Life
- Inter Press Service
Competing with the destruction caused by former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s ‘systematisation’ plans might be hard. But an official report says that 'the aggression on Bucharest’s architectural heritage, documented since 1989, exceeds Ceausescu’s acts.’’
MEDIA: The Untold Stories of Violence Against Women
- Inter Press Service
'You don’t need to go far, it is all around us,' said Robert Dijksterhuis, head of the gender division in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to a room mostly full of women. 'Up to one in three women around the world has been abused in some way - most often by someone she knows,' he added, quoting UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) numbers.
RIGHTS-FRANCE: Domestic Violence - Everybody's Business
- Inter Press Service
Several people are gathered outside a window, staring wide-eyed at a scene within. They watch as a man brutally beats a woman, pounding her face with his fists, kicking her. No one says anything, until an onlooker screams agonisingly: 'stop'.
LITERATURE/WOMEN: 'When a Woman Wins, It is Still a Story'
- Inter Press Service
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 102 times to 106 Nobel laureates between 1901 and 2009. Only 10 of those winners were women. Meanwhile, the Man Booker Prize has been awarded to 15 women in 40 years.
INDIA: Women As Hindu Priests Have An Edge
- Inter Press Service
Defying Hindu orthodoxy and intolerant male priests, women in Maharashtra state, western India, have revived a Vedic tradition and become priests.
Q&A: Maternal Mortality Rates ‘One of the Saddest Cases’ in Asia
- Inter Press Service
Nearly 15 years after a landmark international conference to advance the rights and freedoms of women, the picture in the Asia-Pacific region is mixed, says a leading women’s rights advocate and senior United Nations official.
RIGHTS: Tick the Right Box If You Feel French
- Inter Press Service
The stereotypical image of a French person is of someone wearing a beret and carrying a baguette under his arm. But can one wear a burqa and also be French? Can one prefer pitta bread to baguettes and still be French?
INDIA: A Famed Region’s Tripple Whammy of Environmental Bane
- Inter Press Service
The combined impact of tourism, climate change and changing lifestyle in this internationally renowned adventure haven has raised serious concerns among environmental groups.
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