The Power of Culture

An extraordinary version of the TV show Big Brother has started in South Africa. Each of the twelve participants comes from another African country.

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The theatre piece A Bed of Nettles has caused a stir in the Sri Lankan press. Not only because of its controversial themes, but also because the piece demonstrated that powerful censorship is being exercised. 

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Indian children won the 2003 One World Media Award in the category Special Achievements with mini-documentaries about their daily problems. 

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In the United States educational materials are subjected to strict censorship. Diane Ravitch, former Secretary of Education and renowned researcher, describes how this works in her book The Language Police.

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Enfants de Nuit, a piece presented by Senegalese street children, has made quite an impression during the annual Holland Festival in Amsterdam.

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India has let it be known that it no longer wishes to receive development funds from the Dutch government.

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The theme of the eleventh international anti-corruption conference (IACC) held this year in Seoul, South Korea, was 'Different Cultures, Common Values'.

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Unesco is doing everything possible to limit the damage the war has inflicted on Iraq’s cultural artefacts.

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The Turkish films Uzak and Osama from Afghanistan, both supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, both received awards at the film festival in Cannes.

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Fighting poverty is more important than art. Residents of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are protesting the arrival of a Guggenheim museum.

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