News headlines for “Racism”, page 115
ARGENTINA: Blogs a Shortcut to Fame?
- Inter Press Service
While many are still warning that the Internet will do away with reading, unknown writers in Argentina who have joined the global trend of blogging are winning prizes around the world and watching their online writings turn into books, plays and television screenplays.
LITERATURE: Mario Benedetti, the Most Beloved of Uruguayan Writers
- Inter Press Service
The literary oeuvre of Uruguayan author Mario Benedetti, who died Sunday night, is enormous and diverse, comprising dozens of books of poetry, songs, novels, short stories, chronicles, essays, plays and humour. As he himself used to joke: 'The only thing I never wrote is an opera.'
CHINA: Secret Memoir Highlights Political Dissent
- Inter Press Service
Painstaking efforts by Chinese leadership to maintain the cloak of official silence over the crackdown of a 1989 pro-democracy movement backfired this week when Hong Kong released explosive clandestine memoirs of an ousted reformist party leader.
MIDEAST: Israel Expanding 'Beautifully' In Jerusalem
- Inter Press Service
Even as Pope Benedict XVI tries his best during his current Holy Land visit to pay reverence to the attachment of all three monotheistic faiths to Jerusalem, on the ground a less lofty imprint is already furthering Israeli control over the Holy City in a way that could threaten the claims of all but Jews to Jerusalem.
INDONESIA: Using Religion to Strengthen Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
‘My husband rapes me repeatedly. I asked the ulama (religious leader) for help, but he sided with him, saying that according to Islam, a woman has to obey her husband. I have nowhere else to go. I have no tears left to shed. I no longer scream.’
ARTS-CUBA: Aura of Déjà Vu at the Biennial
- Inter Press Service
Too bold for some tastes and too dissident for others, some of the Cuban exhibits at the recent Havana Arts Biennial brought to mind the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the visual arts were in the vanguard of national culture.
RIGHTS-IRAN: Damaging Forced Confessions
- Inter Press Service
Iranian political refugees living in India say there is an all too familiar ring about the supposed confessions of arrested journalist Roxana Saberi, which they expect to see footage of on television soon.
CAMBODIA: Corruption Allegations Undermine Khmer Rouge Tribunal
- Inter Press Service
The voice of Comrade Duch reverberates daily through the speakers at the 500- seat courtroom in Phnom Penh as he gives testimony in his trial for crimes against humanity.
MAY DAY-ARGENTINA: ‘My Mom Is a Taxi Driver’
- Inter Press Service
A new collection of children’s books in Argentina shows women in jobs and professions that are traditionally held by men, challenging sexist preconceptions.
POLITICS: U.S. Lacks Capacity to Win Over Afghans
- Inter Press Service
President Barack Obama and other top officials in his administration have made it clear that there can be no military solution in Afghanistan, and that the non-military efforts to win over the Afghan population will be central to its chances of success.
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