News headlines for “Racism”, page 90
JORDAN: Women Make Progress But Honour Killings Persist
- Inter Press Service
Earlier this month, a 33-year-old man was charged with hammering his wife to death and dumping her body on the highway leading to the Queen Alia International Airport. The husband confessed to murdering her ''to defend his honour,’’ as she was meeting a male friend.
MEDIA: Press Freedom Day to Focus on Threats to Journos
- Inter Press Service
'Please remember that we know where your child goes to school.'
VENEZUELA: Yanomami Put Body Painting Down on Paper
- Inter Press Service
Men and women of the Yanomami people paint their bodies, drawing straight, curved, dotted and parallel lines, arcs and circles, triangles, rectangles, grids, spider's webs or rings, all arranged as if on a checkerboard.
THAILAND: Anti-Gov’t Protesters Use Cultural Taboo as Weapon
- Inter Press Service
'I know the word; I understand it; I love it,' street artist Chuwit Kunasawat said, using his pencil-thin brush, dipped in deep red ink, to paint on the right cheek of an anti-government protester.
WATER-ZAMBIA: Lozi Make Annual Migration to Higher Ground
- Inter Press Service
Josias Akataama spent March watching the moon wane above, and flood waters rise from below. Only with the sighting of the new moon, would the men, women and children of Kandiani know when they could leave the water-logged village for higher ground.
CHILE: Rebuilding Smiles
- Inter Press Service
Alongside crucial emergency relief efforts, numerous organisations are offering free movies, concerts, plays, comedy performances and other cultural events aimed at lifting the spirits of people suffering the after-effects of the earthquake and tsunami that struck central and southern Chile on Feb. 27.
ECONOMY: Get the Cab From Shanghai to London
- Inter Press Service
The black, curvy London cab is so much more than a just taxi. It is an icon without which the picture of London can never be complete.
THAILAND: Uncertainty Hovers Over New Year Revelry
- Inter Press Service
Very few things — not even the political gridlock that erupted into violence a few days ago — can prevent Thais from celebrating the traditional New Year, marked by drenching one another with water. But this year’s festivities were more muted than usual amid the uncertainty around the anti-government protests, which have lasted for more than a month now.
ARGENTINA: Fathers of the Plaza de Mayo - the 'Rearguard'
- Inter Press Service
Through their decades-long struggle to uncover the fate of their missing children, forcibly disappeared during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in their emblematic white headscarves have earned international renown. Now a new documentary shines the spotlight on the men who supported and encouraged these brave women from the shadows: the fathers of the Plaza de Mayo.
GUATEMALA: Bringing Murdered Activist Bishop Back to Life on the Screen
- Inter Press Service
On the evening of Apr. 26, 1998, as Bishop Juan Gerardi returned to the parish house at St. Sebastian's Church, three blocks from the seat of national government in the heart of the Guatemalan capital, he had no idea it would be the last day of his life. That night, his head was bludgeoned with a concrete block.
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