News headlines for “Racism”, page 117
CULTURE-MEXICO: 'New Seven Wonders' Win Falls Flat
- Inter Press Service
The Mexican government spent time and money in 2007 to get the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza declared one of the 'new seven wonders of the world' in a contest organised by a Swiss-Canadian businessman. But winning has failed to deliver the desired results.
SOUTHEAST ASIA: Regional Rights Body Dismissed as 'Toothless'
- Inter Press Service
Southeast Asia is weeks away from getting its own regional human rights body, but not everyone is cheering the birth of this new mechanism due to be approved at a foreign ministers’ meeting here. Least of all the region’s vibrant human rights community, spread across the 10 countries that belong to the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN).
RELIGION-CUBA: Women in the Pulpit
- Inter Press Service
Izet Samá has no regrets about her decision to devote every waking hour to her mission as pastor of the Presbyterian-Reformed Church, guiding a small congregation in the Cuban province of Havana.
PARAGUAY: University Opens Doors to Native Students
- Inter Press Service
Video camera in hand, Isidro Romero is getting ready for another day of classes in the Paraguayan capital. He is studying Communications as part of a programme aimed at breaking down the barriers that have blocked access to university level studies by the country’s small indigenous minority.
POLITICS-INDIA: Hindu Fundamentalism in Retreat
- Inter Press Service
As the leaders of the pro-Hindu, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) blame each other for the massive debacle that the party suffered in the April/May elections it is clear that its fundamentalist agenda has few takers in a rapidly modernising India.
CHILE: Festival to Showcase Films on Native Peoples
- Inter Press Service
Thanks to the growing number of films by and about indigenous peoples, over 90 movies, mainly from Latin America, will be screened and voted on by spectators at the First Chilean Indigenous Peoples' Film Festival in the Pacific port city of Valparaíso.
RIGHTS-INDIA: Shades of Abu Ghraib in College Ragging Rituals
- Inter Press Service
As the annual scrimmage for coveted seats in India’s engineering and medical colleges gets underway, what many students dread is the sadistic ritual of ragging - or hazing - that they expect to undergo at the hands of their seniors.
DEVELOPMENT: UNESCO Race Wide Open
- Inter Press Service
The contest for a new UNESCO director-general is now wide open with the addition of last-minute nominees for the post, following the controversy around leading contender Farouk Hosny.
THAILAND: Courts to Military ‘Deaths in Custody’ Are Okay
- Inter Press Service
A verdict by a provincial court is poised to deepen the sense of injustice felt by Thailand’s Malay-Muslim minority in the country’s southern provinces, where an insurgency has been raging for over five years.
RIGHTS-CHILE: Ex-Soldier Arrested for Víctor Jara Murder
- Inter Press Service
A judge in Chile has charged a former soldier in the 1973 murder of internationally renowned Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara. Up to now, the only person prosecuted in the case was the commanding officer at the temporary prison camp where the songwriter was killed shortly after the Sept. 11, 1973 coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.
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