News headlines for “Racism”, page 106
Q&A: Plants Know No Frontiers, They Grow Everywhere
- Inter Press Service
Mauritian woman scientist Ameenah Gurib-Fakim was awarded the African Union Women Scientist Regional Award 2009 this month for her scientific achievement and contribution through science to the socio-economic development of Africa.
CUBA: Peace Concert Bridges Borders and Differences
- Inter Press Service
Although it was the target of threats from radical Cuban exiles and the focus of controversy and opinion polls from the moment it was announced, Colombian musician Juanes' idea of staging his 'Peace without Borders' concert in Cuba proved a success at promoting understanding, in spite of differences.
MUSIC: Afro-Brazilians Priced Out of Back2Black Concert
- Inter Press Service
On stage, singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil highlighted Brazil's 'genetic and cultural' connection to 'Mother Africa,' to applause from a predominantly light-skinned audience at a concert that black people generally could not afford - symbolic of the country's 'veiled racism' at an international festival organised to combat it.
RUSSIA: The Language of Influence Weakens
- Inter Press Service
Nearly all of the former Soviet republics have adopted native languages that were suppressed during the communist era at the expense of Russian. This is affecting Russia's influence over the commonwealth of independent states.
JAPAN: New Ruling Party Poised to Lift Foreign Press Restrictions
- Inter Press Service
The newly elected Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) plans to open government organisations to the foreign press, party member Kuniko Tanioka revealed in an interview with IPS.
Q&A: Women Are Not Wallpaper
- Inter Press Service
Something new is appearing on the Italian screen. About time, some may say.
ARGENTINA: In Children's Art, the Sky's Not Always Blue
- Inter Press Service
The young students taught by Maruca, who has been giving free painting classes to children in a town in Argentina's pampas for the last 50 years, have won more than 1,000 international prizes for their artwork.
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.
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