News headlines for “Racism”, page 123
POLITICS-PAKISTAN: Long March - A Long View
- Inter Press Service
Barely a year after being elected, the Pakistan government faces a political storm involving a street agitation spearheaded by lawyers and opposition political parties allied with religious parties.
KENYA: Words that Reshape a Country’s Identity
- Inter Press Service
The goal is ambitious: Kenya’s first literary journal, Kwani?, wants to bring new thinking to the country - and ultimately the continent - and reshape African identities. The journal aims to provoke, create, entertain and develop a literary community that isn’t afraid to question the status quo.
PERU: Drama Exposes Rape as Weapon of War
- Inter Press Service
The film La Teta Asustada/The Milk of Sorrow, the big winner at the Berlin Film Festival, drives home the brutal effects of Peru’s armed conflict on thousands of women who were raped and have lived with the pain and a lingering sense of shame and fear ever since.
U.S.: Muslim Women Try to Shatter the 'Glass Minaret'
- Inter Press Service
It's Ramadan, and Sara Elghobashy and a group of her women friends, having broken their fast, are looking for a mosque where they can hear the recitation of Koran.
POLITICS-CHINA: Row Over Tibet Escalates
- Inter Press Service
China has sealed off Tibet with troops and demanded that the international community recognises the legitimacy of Beijing's historical claims over the Himalayan plateau, escalating a row over its policies there.
MALAYSIA: Sleaze, Betrayals, Threats Mar Politics
- Inter Press Service
Sex scandals, political betrayals, threats and anger at the once revered monarchy - suddenly politics in Malaysia, after a sterling start last year which saw a strong opposition in parliament, is taking an ominous turn.
EL SALVADOR: Guerrilla Ecotourism
- Inter Press Service
La Montañona, a forested mountain in northern El Salvador that reaches 1,800 metres above sea level, was a stronghold of the FMLN guerrillas during the country’s armed conflict. Today, its forests and stories of bombings and rebel hideouts have begun to draw ecotourism.
LIBERIA: Even the Devil is Subject to the Law
- Inter Press Service
Tiny 14-year-old Precious sits on her orphanage bed in the southern port town of Harper, accused of witchcraft six months ago and exiled from her family and nearby community. She says she was publicly beaten and tied up to burn at a stake, until the Harper police were tipped off and saved her.
Q&A: Gitmo Uighurs Highlight a Complex Ethnic Problem
- Inter Press Service
Although United States President Barack Obama was quick to order the closure of the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay soon after assuming office, the question of what to do with the roughly 175 current inmates who are unlikely to be prosecuted by the U.S. remains.
RIGHTS-US: Profiling Still Plagues Muslim Communities
- Inter Press Service
On the heels of a recent poll that found that American Muslims experience emotional turbulence due to the stereotypes and suspicion of Islam since the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, two major Muslim-American organisations issued scathing indictments of the tactics of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security.
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