News headlines for “Racism”, page 112
CULTURE-AUSTRALIA: Film on ‘Slavery’ Ignites Controversy
- Inter Press Service
‘Stolen’, an Australian documentary film that premiered at the Sydney Film Festival last month, has ignited a controversy with its claims on slavery in the refugee camps of Western Sahara. The main protagonist has denounced the film for her portrayal as a 'slave’, but the filmmakers say they stand by their version of the story 'one hundred per cent'.
RIGHTS-SOUTH AFRICA: When the Goal is Peace
- Inter Press Service
Delivering his first state of the nation address in June 2009, South Africa's President Jacob Zuma described sport as 'a unifying force' that people must use to live together. A social soccer club in Cape Town's informal settlement of Masiphumelele is taking his challenge seriously: Kanana Football Club has recruited foreigners as a gesture of goodwill and harmony.
EUROPE: Not the Language to Speak
- Inter Press Service
A controversial new law on foreign languages in Slovakia branded discriminatory and totalitarian by critics is fuelling tensions and destroying trust between Slovaks and ethnic Hungarians, political analysts have warned.
Q&A: 'My Boyfriend Insisted I Quit Dancing, My Answer was No'
- Inter Press Service
She has had to change her name, sever links with her family and boyfriend, and even move cities because of male stalkers in the Bahraini capital. But no 'sacrifice' is too much in the pursuit of her dream for Tufaha, just 24.
CHILE: Home Truths About the Dictator and His Family?
- Inter Press Service
'La Familia. Historia privada de los Pinochet' (The Family: Private History of the Pinochets), a book that delves into the personal life of the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and his immediate family, has had a mixed reception in this country and in Ecuador, where a man claiming to be his illegitimate son may soon identify himself.
ARGENTINA: Women Writers Who Break the Mould
- Inter Press Service
An Argentine woman’s first novel, narrated by a character that eludes female literary stereotypes, has surprisingly met with some nasty sexist comments from spheres where such biases were previously unheard of, such as literary criticism and sophisticated readership.
PUERTO RICO: Pride in Sotomayor Rekindles Debate Over Status
- Inter Press Service
Sonia Sotomayor's nomination by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court has turned her into a reason for national pride in Puerto Rico. But it has also added fresh fuel to the perpetual debate for self-determination of the people in the Caribbean island, which has been a commonwealth of the U.S. for over a hundred years.
HAITI: Deportees from U.S. Face Culture Shock, Retain Hope
- Inter Press Service
In the shadow of the Eglise Sainte Claire in the Petite Place Cazeau neighbourhood of Haiti’s bustling capital, Frantz Saintil is visiting his daughter and reflecting on the more than two decades he spent abroad before finding himself back in his native country of Haiti seven years ago.
PAKISTAN/INDIA: Citizens Push for Peace
- Inter Press Service
The months following last year's Mumbai terror attacks have seen a renewed sense of urgency among peace activists in Pakistan and India. Citizens are pushing their governments to resume the composite dialogue process between the two nuclear-rival nations.
IRAQ: Is Another Conflict Inevitable?
- Inter Press Service
Relations between Iraq’s various Kurdish, Arab and Turkoman ethnicities are going through a new round of complications since a provision in the draft constitution of the country’s northern Kurdistan region declared a range of disputed areas part of the historical Kurdish homeland, infuriating non-Kurds in the country.
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