News headlines for “Racism”, page 92
SOUTH AFRICA: Teaching Girls to Report on the World Cup
- Inter Press Service
For the nearly 50 million people of South Africa, the 2010 World Cup represents an opportunity to show the world its progress through sports. But for a new nonprofit organisation, soccer's biggest stage also offers an opportunity to publicise young women who tend to go unheard.
CHINA: Public Space Shrinks for Discussing Fate of Heritage Area
- Inter Press Service
The emails started arriving two weeks ago, first in a trickle but slowly in increasing numbers. They talked about a public forum to discuss plans for the controversial redevelopment of a historical area of the Chinese capital Beijing.
PAKISTAN: Militancy, Security Fears Defeat National Games
- Inter Press Service
By now, Pakistan’s National Games should have been underway, with spectators cheering on the men and women competing in them. Instead, athletes and officials are ruing how militancy and violence have caused the games’ postponement.
SOUTH AFRICA: Playing Football for Hope
- Inter Press Service
Sixteen-year-old Neo Malema and his brothers and sister live with his grandmother in the impoverished Alexandra Township in Johannesburg. Despite his poor background, Malema dreams of one day playing football for the country’s national squad, Bafana Bafana.
CHILE: A Newspaper Of and For 'the Voiceless'
- Inter Press Service
Diario Uno, a newspaper with an innovative business model put out by a group of journalists and academics, went on sale Sunday in Chile, promising to provide a voice for those who do not feel represented by the country's economic model nor by the mainstream media.
ARGENTINA: Football Violence Flares Up Ahead of World Cup
- Inter Press Service
'Your president is willing to confront the wildest hordes of opponents, but not a football fan, ever,' Argentine President Cristina Fernández once joked.
ARTS-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Women Dancers Can Fill Granaries
- Inter Press Service
'Some said, how can women dancers tell us about climate change? Some said, how can dancers talk about planting trees? Others asked, how can women dancers build schools? But now the government says a drum has managed to fill our granaries, a dancer has managed to build schools.'
ARGENTINA: Homemade Portraits of Life Behind Bars
- Inter Press Service
'I wanted to take a self-portrait, and I thought about keeping a straight face, but it came out all weird, with these very long arms,' says Liliana Cabrera about the photo she took with a camera she made herself, out of a condensed milk tin, at a workshop in an Argentine prison.
HAITI: Artists Join UN to Rebuild Cultural Life
- Inter Press Service
As international donors prepare to meet at the United Nations headquarters in New York to discuss ways to rebuild Haiti, after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, the country’s artistic community has been mobilising to make culture a key aspect of reconstruction.
BRAZIL: Bringing the Multicoloured Soul of the Favela to Life
- Inter Press Service
The 'favelas' or shanty towns of Brazil are a uniform red ochre, the colour of unplastered brick walls. But two visual artists from the Netherlands want to paint them every colour under the sun, a facelift intended to showcase the colourful soul of these poverty-stricken neighbourhoods.
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