News headlines for “Racism”, page 98
INDIA: Latest Riots Show Simmering Communal Tensions
- Inter Press Service
This week’s riots in two southern Indian towns highlight how communal tensions in this country of nearly 1.2 billion people simmer just under the surface, exploding at the slightest provocation.
IRAQ: Are Kurds' Days of Kingmaking Over?
- Inter Press Service
In the run-up to Iraq's parliamentary elections next week, the once-united Kurds are not only suffering deep fissures but are expected to lose their privileged kingmaker position after the polls.
Q&A: Brazil Leans on South America to Adopt Its Digital TV Standard
- Inter Press Service
Brazil is lobbying hard to get the rest of Latin America to adopt the Brazilian version of the Japanese digital television standard, as Argentina, Chile, Peru and Venezuela have already done.
RIGHTS-EGYPT: Families Uprooted as Sphinxes Revive
- Inter Press Service
Hajj Khodari lifts a defiant fist at the demolition machinery now just meters away from his front door.
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.
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