News headlines for “Racism”, page 99
BURMA: A Celebration of Life through the Arts under the Junta
- Inter Press Service
The Burmese military spares nothing with its iron grip on power — not even art.
CULTURE-TURKEY: Kurdish Directors Make 'National' Cinema
- Inter Press Service
A ban on the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party in Turkey has not deterred Kurdish filmmakers from all over the globe gathering in this southeastern city to continue their struggle for recognition through cultural means.
SIERRA LEONE: Woman Breaking Traditional Walls in Chieftaincy Elections
- Inter Press Service
A war is raging in the eastern part of the country, once the centre stage for battles during the 10-year civil war and the place where 'blood diamonds' where once mined.
MALAWI: Women Fight Harmful Cultural Practices
- Inter Press Service
An experience which Belita Simpokolwe went through in December last year remains deeply etched in her memory. 'Sometimes I fail to concentrate in class when these things come back to my mind,' laments 13-year-old Simpokolwe, a grade six pupil at Kawale Primary School, in the northern Malawi district of Chitipa.
RIGHTS-INDIA: Women Rally Together to Fight Injustice
- Inter Press Service
Rajbala, 40, learned in the cruelest way possible that poverty exacts an exorbitant price, especially if one is pursuing justice.
CULTURE: Foreign Cash Makes Afghan Films
- Inter Press Service
After the fall of the Taliban, the most widely recognised and praised Afghan film has been 'Osama'. Directed by Sediq Barmak, the 2003 production is the heartrending story of a young girl who disguises herself as a boy named Osama so that she might survive the Taliban regime. Osama received awards at both Cannes and the Golden Globes.
GENDER: U.N. Women's Treaty Weakened by Slew of Reservations
- Inter Press Service
A landmark U.N. treaty on women’s rights, which will be 30 years old next week, is in danger of being politically undermined by a slew of reservations by 22 countries seeking exemptions from some of the convention’s legal obligations.
DEVELOPMENT: Afro-Uruguayan Women Find Their Own Way Home
- Inter Press Service
Contrary to popular belief in Uruguay, the capital city’s black population is no longer concentrated in neighbourhoods like Barrio Sur, Palermo and Cordón, which were historically home to the majority of African descendents and remain heavily steeped in Afro-Uruguayan culture.
U.S.: 'We All Breathe the Same Air and Drink the Same Water'
- Inter Press Service
Some 8,000 kilometres from the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Native American environmental experts from 66 tribes came together at a summit here this week to address the most pressing needs in their communities - problems, all emphasised, that know no geographic boundaries.
MEDIA-ARGENTINA: Fighting Stereotypes of Slums 'From the Inside'
- Inter Press Service
A group of local residents from Villa 1-11-14, a slum on the outskirts of the Argentine capital, put out a magazine aimed at breaking down the stereotypes propagated by the mainstream media, which associate neighbourhoods like theirs only with drugs, crime and marginalisation.
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