News headlines for “Racism”, page 89
AUSTRALIA: Hijab-Wearing Footballers Oppose FIFA Ban
- Inter Press Service
Sara Aboueid, 15, and Jamillah Noordin, 16, wear uniforms similar to countless numbers of footballers around the world. Every week during Australia’s football season, the young women don shirts and shorts in their club’s colours. Like several of their teammates, both also wear a hijab.
Gaza 'World Cup' Scores Several Goals
- Inter Press Service
Football is the world's most popular sport, boasting more than an estimated 2 billion fans. And despite its isolation from the world through Israel's four-year- old blockade, the Gaza Strip is no exception. When a football match is on, tea and shisha cafes are packed with people gathered around the TV sets.
KENYA: Successful Weather Prediction Uses Old and New
- Inter Press Service
In the wake of ever-changing climatic conditions, a study in western Kenya has discovered that combining traditional methods of weather prediction with meteorological forecasting is the best way of obtaining more accurate forecast data.
ASIA: Journalists Lament Media Bias vs Ethnic Minorities
- Inter Press Service
Despite issues of discrimination and violence hounding ethnic minorities, they continue to lack ‘voice’ in the mainstream press and suffer prejudices from journalists themselves.
EGYPT: New Head of Al-Azhar Quits Party Politics
- Inter Press Service
When Ahmed al-Tayeb, the newly-appointed grand sheikh of Egypt's prestigious Al-Azhar religious institution, relinquished his membership in President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), it carried significance.
CUBA: Keeping the Festival Magic Alive
- Inter Press Service
As the cinema lights switched off, the groups of painters, impromptu filmmakers and craftspeople who filled the parks and plazas of this eastern Cuban town over the past week began to drift away. The musicians who played every night till dawn are gone, and so are the vendors of prawn cocktails, crabmeat pies and roast suckling pig.
CUBA: Children Reach Out Through the Screen to Peers in Post-Quake Haiti
- Inter Press Service
Five girls and five boys are taking time to remember the hurricane that devastated their home town of Gibara in eastern Cuba two years ago, mingling their memories with their dreams, and filming images to make a video message for children in Haiti.
POLITICS: Not Quite Cricket: India’s Most Popular Sport on Trial
- Inter Press Service
Allegations that India’s junior foreign minister Shashi Tharoor had swung outsize ‘sweat equity’ for a female friend in a newly floated professional cricket league franchise may have cost him his job, but it may also expose the multi- million dollar India Premium League (IPL) as a massive money-laundering enterprise.
ARGENTINA: We're Drowning in Sadness' - Native Group's Land Flooded
- Inter Press Service
The legal battle waged by an indigenous community in northern Argentina against the government over a project that flooded half of their territory highlights the fact that legal title to their land is not enough to overcome the marginalisation they have faced for centuries.
POLITICS-BURMA: Ethnic Rebel Groups Defy Junta’s Order
- Inter Press Service
Burma’s military regime is facing a formidable challenge from ethnic rebel groups that are refusing to kowtow to its order that they join the South-east Asian country’s army as border guard forces.
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