News headlines for “Racism”, page 121
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: Democracy Under a Tree
- Inter Press Service
It has already been dubbed 'Pokok Demokrasi' or Democracy Tree and is set to enter the annals of folklore in Ipoh, capital city of Perak state.
ASIA PACIFIC: Know Your Indonesia - Australians Urged
- Inter Press Service
One is cohesive, has a relatively small population and has been democratic since its foundation; the other is fragmented, is one of the world’s most-populous nations and only emerged from years of authoritarian rule a decade ago.
RIGHTS-PERU: 'No Thanks' to Donation for Memorial Museum
- Inter Press Service
Heduardo, one of the most scathing caricaturists in the Peruvian press, published a cartoon showing President Alan García more interested in a 'museum of amnesia' than a proposed 'museum of memory.'
SOUTH ASIA: Terrorists Aim for Destabilisation, Media Attention
- Inter Press Service
South Asia seems to be caught in a vortex of violence as the countries that form this region - from Sri Lanka at the southern-most tip, Bangladesh to the east, Nepal crowning the north, Pakistan along the west and India in the middle - deal with internal nightmares that their governments routinely blame on neighbours.
BULGARIA: Environment Going Down a Slippery Slope
- Inter Press Service
The World Ski Cup for women last weekend was organised in Bulgaria at a ski resort whose development is partially illegal, and which is damaging a world heritage site.
INDIA/PAKISTAN: Trade, Travel Across Divided Kashmir Stalled
- Inter Press Service
Trade and travel between the Indian and Pakistan parts of Kashmir, as part of confidence building measures (CBMs) between the two rival countries, appear to have become a casualty of the Nov. 26-29 terror attacks on the port city of Mumbai.
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Plans for Regional Rights Body Hit Realities
- Inter Press Service
Plans to create a regional human rights body for the ten-nation South-east Asian bloc are threatening to expose the gulf that separates countries that seek to respect political and civil liberties and the notorious violators.
RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: India Can Help End Civilian Killings
- Inter Press Service
As Sri Lanka’s armed forces battle the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in their last stronghold, the island country’s influential neighbour, India, is weighing diplomatic options to goad President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government to save civilians trapped in the war zone.
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Tiger Census Helping Conservation
- Inter Press Service
One year after India released a scientifically prepared census report of tigers in this country, it is being criticised by some as inadequate and acclaimed by others as a significant step towards stemming the rapid depletion of the big cat through poaching and habitat loss.
U.S.: Gen Y Reads - But Only for Nine Minutes a Day
- Inter Press Service
Are twentysomethings changing the culture of literature?
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