News headlines for “Racism”, page 114
MOROCCO: The Berber Dance Is Over
- Inter Press Service
The satellite receiver has speeded up the process of wiping out the cultural heritage of Morocco's Berbers. Old traditions are now dying out under the influence of television imams.
AFGHANISTAN: Carpet Industry Crippled Without Govt Help
- Inter Press Service
Carpet weaving has long been a part of Afghanistan's history and culture.
TRADE: Carpets - Made in Afghanistan for Pakistan's Profit
- Inter Press Service
The Afghan carpet weaving industry is Afghanistan's second largest, behind only agriculture in terms of size and number of people employed.
CHILE: The Journalist Who Caught His Own Killer - On Film
- Inter Press Service
Leonardo Henrichsen turned his film camera on the soldier who was aiming at him and held it steady until he was shot to death. But the justice system never caught up with the killer of the Argentine journalist, murdered 36 years ago in Chile while he was filming a military uprising for Swedish television.
MALAYSIA: New Govt Stifling Public Opinion
- Inter Press Service
A huge public protest on Aug. 1 calling for the repeal of the Internal Security Act, a law that the authorities have used to jail extremist and legitimate political opponents alike without trial, was broken up using brute force.
SRI LANKA: As Fighting Stops, Sri Lanka Hopes to Woo Back Tourists
- Inter Press Service
Hope has once again returned to Sri Lanka’s resplendent beaches. Everyone, including hoteliers, boat operators, and beach boys, are hopeful that the end of a three decade old civil war will herald better fortunes.
CULTURE: Young Women in Chat Rooms Beware
- Inter Press Service
Internet and mobile phones have spawned a new kind of marriage in the Gulf.
RIGHTS: Outspoken Activists Defend Africa's Sexual Diversity
- Inter Press Service
The second World Outgames, held in the Danish capital, offered up a veritable smorgasbord of sport, politics and arts while celebrating sexual and gender diversity. But it also reminded participants that bigotry against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, sometimes culminating in violence, remains a scourge across the world.
INDIA: Rural Communities Turn to Traditional Climate Mitigation
- Inter Press Service
In Tamilnadu, southern India, and Uttar Pradesh, northern India, villagers have revived ancient systems of storing surface and groundwater that are putting them in a good position to contend with today’s changing climate.
PAKISTAN: Kashmir Carpet Industry Hit By Recession
- Inter Press Service
Kashmir’s carpet industry has been hit very hard by the global economic slowdown, 47-year-old Bashir Ahmad Bhat explained while working on his loom in a run-down hut in downtown Srinagar.
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