News headlines for “Racism”, page 70
CUBA: Mural-Lined Street Transforms Neighbourhood
- Inter Press Service
Forget about finding Cantarrana on a map or travel guide to Cuba. 'Nobody knew about us; we didn’t exist,' said one resident of this working-class neighbourhood on the west side of Havana.
BOOK-BURMA: On the New Road to Mandalay
- Inter Press Service
Condemned for decades as an international pariah, Burma is enjoying a diplomatic spring with droves of former critics heading towards the Southeast Asian nation.
NEPAL: Praying Against Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
There are gasps from the audience as a series of shocking images flash across the screen: human hands eaten away by arsenic, the carcass of a cow so emaciated that it looks two-dimensional, a starved child with matchstick legs grasping at the udder of an animal for sustenance.
COLOMBIA: Worse than Fiction
- Inter Press Service
A teenage love story is the fictional plot device in a new Colombian film, Silence in Paradise, about the all-too-real phenomenon of the 'false positives' — the euphemism used to describe army killings of young civilians passed off as guerrilla casualties.
CUBA: Violence against Women Out of the Closet
- Inter Press Service
The story of Saúl, a violent husband, and Odalys, an abused wife, has been on Cuban TV screens for several weeks now, bringing the touchy and often silenced issue of violence against women into millions of homes. It may cause shock or repulsion, but few can escape the controversy or discussion.
The Screen Speaks for Suu Kyi
- Inter Press Service
Twenty years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and a year after being released from house arrest, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is the subject of a sweeping film that may increase international pressure on Burma’s ruling regime to speed up tentative reforms.
PAKISTAN: Beating the Taliban on the Playing Fields
- Inter Press Service
An outbreak of sports fever has gripped the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Northern Pakistan, as increasing numbers of civilians and government officials latch on to team sports as their only armour against creeping militancy in the border region.
RELIGION-CUBA: Good Climate for Pope’s Visit
- Inter Press Service
A visit by the Pope to Cuba would strengthen the climate of dialogue between the government and the Catholic Church, analysts agreed after the announcement that Benedict XVI is considering visiting this country in the spring of 2012.
U.S. Move Hurts More Than UNESCO
- Inter Press Service
The United States’ decision to cut funding for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation will hurt the specialised agency’s work, officials here say.
PAKISTAN: Cricket Idol Bowls Political Googly
- Inter Press Service
He could be Pakistan’s Obama, although he spews venom at the United States government for its drone attacks and its policies in the region. But Imran Khan speaks of change and, like Obama, enjoys huge online support from the youth.
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