News headlines for “Racism”, page 109
RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: Young Girl’s Suicide Ignites Public Debate
- Inter Press Service
By all accounts, 14-year-old student Anuthara Jayawardene was an unobtrusive child. But her death, by hanging herself inside a toilet in her school premises on July 22, has brought her right into the middle of media attention. Her name and the circumstances surrounding her death are now at the centre of a public dust storm.
RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Attacks on Christians Spotlight Blasphemy Laws
- Inter Press Service
The death of nine people following this month’s riot directed against a Christian colony in eastern Pakistan has cast a pall of gloom over a nation carved out from the Indian subcontinent in the name of religion.
BAHRAIN: Seeking Gender Equality in Quran
- Inter Press Service
For the first time, feminists in Bahrain are seeking new Islamic perspectives on gender and women's empowerment, and asking for modern interpretations of the Quran.
LATIN AMERICA: Investigative Journalists Show Their Mettle
- Inter Press Service
'One way of ensuring the future of journalism is to improve content quality, and this means investigating what is deliberately hidden, like corruption,' said Gerardo Reyes, a reporter for the Miami newspaper El Nuevo Herald, on a visit to the Peruvian capital.
RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: The Unfinished Story of the 'Disappeared'
- Inter Press Service
'The night of Oct. 23, 1976, nearly 33 years ago, was the last time I saw my son Pablo. He was 17 years old, and he was terrified. Since then I have had no reliable news about his fate. My family and I have been left at the mercy of the anguished torments of our imagination.'
POLITICS-THAILAND: Border Town Enjoys Peace Amid Insurgency
- Inter Press Service
They are not leaving anything to chance in this far-flung southern Thai town that has earned a reputation as an oasis of peace and harmony in a region gripped by a bloody insurgency, now in its sixth year.
POLITICS-JAPAN: Voters Sceptical of Change in Run-up to Election
- Inter Press Service
The Aug 30 elections in Japan will be the most important in a generation, signifying many voters’ dissatisfaction with the current political status quo under the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: Umno Stokes Racial Fires to Regain Lost Ground
- Inter Press Service
Race relations here, unsteady even in the best of times, are worsening with the ruling Umno party ratcheting up racial and religious issues to maintain its influence over majority Malays, who make up some 60 percent of the population of 27 million.
FILM-COLOMBIA: A Priest's Passion for Justice
- Inter Press Service
The latest film out of Colombia is based on the true story of a priest in a rural town whose passions include a search for justice in an area that, like so many in this civil war-torn country, is hemmed in by armed groups, whether far-right paramilitaries, leftist guerrillas or state security forces.
RIGHTS-CHILE: Personal Stories Bring the 'Disappeared' to Life
- Inter Press Service
Two Chilean women living in the United States were so moved by the plight of people who were detained and disappeared during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet that they overcame the problems of distance, and wrote a book reconstructing the personal lives of eight victims through the accounts given by their closest relatives.
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