News headlines for “Racism”, page 93
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.
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.
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