News headlines for “Racism”, page 68
FILM: Political Prisoners Are Burma's Unsung Heroes
- Inter Press Service
In a move that highlighted its sub-par human rights record, the government of Burma announced Oct. 11 that it would release 6,359 prisoners, but how many of these will be drawn from the country's estimated 500 to over 2,000 political prisoners remains uncertain.
Chinese Film Festival Forced Underground
- Inter Press Service
A Chinese independent film festival showcasing the work of some of the most daring Mainland directors has been forced underground following a police visit to the event’s launch last Saturday.
Young Gather to Show Their Power
- Inter Press Service
With young people spearheading the revolutionary movements in the Middle East and other regions, the seventh Youth Forum taking place here this week has particular relevance, participants say.
RIGHTS-JAPAN: Lifer’s Case Tells Migrant Workers' Plight
- Inter Press Service
A Nepalese worker serving life for a murder he denies committing has become the rallying point for activists lobbying for the rights of migrant labour.
Q&A: 'We Do Not Want It To Be 'East' And 'West''
- Inter Press Service
About 80 percent of Qatar's population is foreign. Of the 1.6 million people living in the Arab emirate in 2010, 685,000 were Indian or Pakistani, 160,000 were Iranian and about 430,000 came from other parts of the world.
RIGHTS-JAMAICA: Wanted: Light-skinned only, please
- Inter Press Service
Revelations that proprietors are requesting light-skinned workers from a government training institution is putting a new spin on Jamaica's so-called obsession with skin bleaching.
PAKISTAN: Fighting a Taliban-Polio Alliance
- Inter Press Service
With Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province turning into the ‘polio capital of the world’, authorities are warning parents that heeding Taliban propaganda against oral polio vaccination (OPV) could earn them a prison sentence.
PAKISTAN: Flood Relief by Caste, Creed
- Inter Press Service
With just the clothes on their backs, Moora Sanafdhano, 68, and his family of nine waded through waist-deep flood waters swirling through their village of Allah Ditto Leghari, saving themselves in the nick of time.
NORTH KOREA: Women Wear Pants, Revive Markets
- Inter Press Service
North Korea’s communist government frowns upon women wearing pants, seeing it as a mark of ‘rotten bourgeois lifestyles.’ Yet, wives, literally wearing pants, are selling goods in the local markets to supplement their husbands’ meagre pay packets.
DR CONGO: Specialised Court for Serious Human Rights Abuses
- Inter Press Service
The Democratic Republic of Congo's parliament this month adopted a bill creating a Specialised Court for serious violations of human rights. The involvement of jurists from outside the DRC in running the court has quickly become a major talking point.
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