News headlines for “Racism”, page 118
MIDEAST: To be an Arab, and an Israeli
- Inter Press Service
The cluster of blue-and-white Stars of David - Israel's national flag - had seen better days. In the wake of unseasonably heavy rain, they looked limp, anything but proud - in direct contrast to the mark their bearers hoped to make.
POLITICS-JAPAN: On Trial 60 Years Later
- Inter Press Service
Although it concluded more than 60 years ago, the Tokyo War Crimes Trial is still a live issue today - in Japan as in the world at large.
CULTURE-ETHIOPIA: Old Master Challenges Film-makers to Look Within
- Inter Press Service
Haile Gerima's film 'Teza' may only have come to the world's attention when it won Africa’s highest prize in Ouagadougou on Mar. 7, but it has been a sensation in his native Ethiopia since it premiered in Addis Ababa at the start of the year.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Tough Terror Laws Part of Routine Policing?
- Inter Press Service
Civil libertarians are concerned that significant powers wielded by authorities in order to conduct investigations into terrorism-related activities are being normalised and made available for less serious crimes.
TRADE-TANZANIA: Crafts Business Disproves Myths About Disability
- Inter Press Service
After Joel Haule developed a crippling childhood disease that left him wheelchair-bound, his parents began calling him ‘‘Matatizo’’, the Kiswahili word for ‘‘problems’’.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Hopes Pinned on Reinstated Justices
- Inter Press Service
As he resumes office as Chief Justice of Pakistan on Tuesday, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry will doubtless mull over the years since Mar. 9, 2007 when he was first unceremoniously sacked by then president Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Hopes Pinned on Reinstated Justices
- Inter Press Service
As he resumes office as Chief Justice of Pakistan on Tuesday, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry will doubtless mull over the 17 months since Mar. 9, 2007 when he was unceremoniously sacked by then president Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
FILM-US: Latino Fest in the Fray of Pop Culture's Lucha Libre
- Inter Press Service
The San Diego Latino Film Festival is perhaps the biggest little film festival most people outside of Southern California have never heard of.
Q&A: ‘‘The Market Is Not a Deity And We Are Not At Its Mercy’’
- Inter Press Service
Churches from South Africa and Germany are critically interrogating neoliberal globalisation in a process that they want to take up to United Nations level and also to their congregations ‘‘to build responsibility among people for what is happening in their world’’.
NICARAGUA: Caribbean Women Face Double Discrimination
- Inter Press Service
The first criminal prosecution for racial discrimination in Nicaragua, in response to a complaint brought by a woman lawmaker in the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), has focused attention on the segregationist treatment of indigenous and Afro-Caribbean women in the Caribbean coastal regions.
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