News headlines for “Racism”, page 122
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.
RELIGION-PAKISTAN: Bombing Closes Shrine Off For Women
- Inter Press Service
Few women are visiting the mausoleum of the famous 17th century mystic poet Abdul Rehman Baba since suspected Pakistani Taliban bombed it.
PHILIPPINES/US: Women's Groups Back Recanting Rape Victim
- Inter Press Service
Nicole, the Filipina who accused a United States serviceman of raping her in 2005, has recanted her testimony, but women’s groups supporting her in the case do not see this development as a defeat.
NEW ZEALAND: Asian Muslims Tell Their Own Stories
- Inter Press Service
A new book and accompanying exhibit provide rare insight into the lives of Asian Muslims, who have become an intrinsic part of New Zealand's diverse community since the first Muslim Chinese gold miners landed on its distant shores 130 years ago.
POLITICS: Five Days That Changed Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
A late night meeting between Pakistan’s army chief, President and Prime Minister led to the dramatic announcement in the wee hours of Monday morning that Iftikhar Mohammed Choudhry would be restored as Chief Justice.
Q&A: Play for Peace
- Inter Press Service
Sport could be one way of alleviating the thousands of children drawn into armed conflicts around the world. Certainly Prince Feisal Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan, also president of the Jordanian Olympic Committee, believes this, and has been using sports to heal traumatised children all his life.
MIDEAST: Singing Across the Divide
- Inter Press Service
From the flattened buildings in Gaza, through angry demonstrations outside a Swedish tennis stadium, to the web pages of human rights reports, battles continue to rage over Israel's policies and the legacy of its Gaza war.
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