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The Wor(l)d is a series of short videos featuring spoken-word artists from around the world. Each week, RNW provides a space for young poets and rappers to share their take on our themes. In this series, ourRNW on Facebook
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Article: Sex pays for China’s budget hotels
China’s budget hotels used to target small business travellers, but their clientele nowadays is a rather different one. Cheap hotel rooms have become the space where the Chinese can pursue sexual freedom.
Article: Can you have fun in Cuba?
“For me, having fun is about enjoying myself anywhere except at home”, says a young Cuban.
Article: World's only gay bar for Muslims is closing
Habibi Ana is a place where you can forget about feeling ashamed of your homosexuality. Where you can flirt or date with people like you. For years this bar in Amsterdam has been the place to be for gay Muslims.
Article: 360 Degrees: cartoons for thought
Sex, money, violence and religion. Just some of the issues that prompted lively debate – and striking cartoons - in our 360 Degrees project.
Article: When a Zimbabwean farmer gets shot in the face
Farmer Piet Zwanikken was shot in the face while standing outside his home on the tobacco farm in Mashonaland West that he’s owned for the last 11 years.
Video: The president and the mechanic
This is the first episode in the story of Moussa Sylla. The Ivorian mechanic lives in The Netherlands, the same country as Laurent Gbagbo, his former president.
Video: Mexican sex abuse victims: “We don’t believe in any pope”
On the eve of Pope Benedict's resignation Mexican sexual abuse victims say they have no hope that the pontiff’s successor will provide justice for the thousands of children abused by priests.
Article: Venezuela: classes behind bars
“I’m really enjoying teaching in prisons,” says Alexander De La Hoz, a young Venezuelan educator, who devotes his time to the inmates of the Cárcel Nacional de Maracaibo, the National Prison in western Venezuela.
Article: From breakdancing to fighting corruption
Moroccan rapper Yasser La Flèche says that in the Arab world, rap music has a distinctive regional flavour, with content critical of the existing political and social order.
Article: "The majority of Ugandans are not homophobic"
Uganda's decision to deport David Cecil, the Kampala-based British producer of the play ‘The River and the Mountain', prompted our blogger to address what he believes is a spreading misconception about anti-gay attitudes in
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