News headlines for “Racism”, page 98
DEVELOPMENT: Filipino Communities Turn Trash Into Cash
- Inter Press Service
Days after the New Year’s Eve revelry dies down, expect colorful lanterns or wreaths to remain hanging on the windows of many Filipino homes — part of a tradition in this South-east Asian country known to have the longest Yuletide celebration in the world.
GENDER/LANGUAGE: Rejecting the Derogatory 'Feminine'
- Inter Press Service
What happens to language and the way women are addressed when they start to occupy positions of responsibility? Well, it depends on the language.
SOUTH SUDAN: A More Gender Representative Leadership
- Inter Press Service
As the general elections scheduled for April 2010 draw nearer in Africa’s largest country ravaged by a long drawn war, the scramble for political positions is rife as women struggle to make their presence felt.
NEPAL: Witch Tag Only on Dalits, Minorities
- Inter Press Service
Just 40 kms away from the capital Kathmandu, in Thasingtole, Lalitpur District, Kalli Kumari B.K., 46, a local Dalit woman, was mercilessly beaten up. She was accused of being a 'witch', imprisoned in a shed and forced to eat her own excreta
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Field of Dreams
- Inter Press Service
Dominicans have an extraordinary passion for baseball. All young boys play the game, sometimes with uniforms and equipment on a town baseball diamond, sometimes using coconut shells and old planks as ball and bat on an empty street or sand lot.
POLITICS: China Revives Confucianism to Win the World Over
- Inter Press Service
As western nations and the values of liberal capitalism received a battering in the financial storm, China’s emergence as a pillar of economic stability and growth has fed a new craze in all things Chinese — from language to philosophy and culture.
ZAMBIA: Let our Chiefs Govern
- Inter Press Service
The Litunga of Barotseland, King of the Lozi, has no judicial or legislative authority. No supervisory control over government projects, and worst of all he cannot stand for elected office. Yet successive Zambian presidents have deferred to him.
COLOMBIA: Chicha, Fashionable Survivor
- Inter Press Service
Chicha, a traditional homemade brew produced all the way from Mexico to Chile since the days of the Inca, has largely been a rural drink over the centuries. But it is enjoying a new popularity in bars and restaurants in Bogotá and other Colombian cities, as a hip alternative to mass-produced beer.
SOUTH SUDAN: Women Perpetuate Culture of Submission
- Inter Press Service
All day Rosalinda Duany sells vegetables from her stall at the local market, earning a living to feed her family while her husband spends his days idling with his friends.
DEVELOPMENT-THAILAND: Fish, Not Dams
- Inter Press Service
Seventy-one-year old Kham, a woman from Napho Klang, left home early in the morning of Dec. 14 to join a ritual to revitalise the Mekong River, which passes through this part of north-eastern Thailand.
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