News headlines for “Racism”, page 95
CULTURE-FRANCE: Alexandre Dumas Loses Colour in Film
- Inter Press Service
A new film about Alexandre Dumas, the author of ‘The Three Musketeers’, has sparked a racial row here because a white actor is playing the role of one of France’s most-read writers who was of mixed race.
IRAQ: 'Disgraced Soldier' Fights Trauma With Documentary
- Inter Press Service
A new documentary ‘Diary of a Disgraced Soldier’ describes the dismissal from the British army of an Iraq war veteran and his battle with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) linked to his videographing the brutalising of Iraqi youth by fellow servicemen.
BRAZIL: Carnival, a Complex Annual Revolution for Women, Gays
- Inter Press Service
Fátima Oliveira, one of Brazil's few black women doctors, always goes to 'the best carnival,' in Sabará, a city of 130,000 people in the state of Minas Gerais, where 'men dress up as women' at a celebration that is 'very informal, very local, with few tourists.'
NIGERIA: HIV-positive Youth Still Stigmatised
- Inter Press Service
'I will never have anything to do with women since I have been diagnosed to have a killer disease.' It is not clear how Muhammad Jungudo (17) contracted HIV, but he suspects it happened at a local barber shop where the implements used for shaving are rarely sterilised. And knowing how he contracted the virus is important. At least it was to Jungudo’s family.
RELIGION-TURKEY: Alevi's Future Bleak Despite Equality Moves
- Inter Press Service
A political initiative to eliminate discrimination against the Alevi, Turkey’s main religious minority, risks being stymied by the Diyanet, the country’s powerful religious body that does not recognise anything but Sunni Islam.
HAITI: U.N. Supports Move to Protect Heritage
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations’ cultural agency, UNESCO, and the government of Haiti have joined forces to try to safeguard and protect the Caribbean nation’s artistic heritage in the wake of the Jan. 12 earthquake which destroyed not only countless lives but also many national art treasures.
RELIGION: Young Western Muslims Fight Misperceptions
- Inter Press Service
Islamophobia is rising in the West, and sectarian clashes have undermined unity in the Muslim world, but there is hope from 'within', says a group of young Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow (MLTs) working to address these problems.
CULTURE: Asia Lets the Year of the Tiger Roar
- Inter Press Service
The impact of the global recession may still be around, but Chinese communities all over Asia are bent on letting the Year of the Tiger come in with a festive, prosperous roar on Sunday.
BALKANS: Arrest of Wahhabis Highlights Extremist Threat
- Inter Press Service
The arrest of seven Wahhabis, following a police crackdown on the remote Bosnian village of Gornja Maoca, has raised concerns over the continued presence of Islamist fundamentalists who first arrived in the country during the bloody 1992-1995 Balkans war.
RELIGION: Fighting Hunger - A Matter of Faith
- Inter Press Service
The world's major religions might disagree on theology and matters like the foods we ought to eat and the days we should rest on, but when it comes to fighting hunger, they see eye to eye.
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