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Gold fever

Metropolis in search of the most wanted piece of precious metal in the world: gold.

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Hit the road with the police

The first female motorcycle engineer in Ouagadougou

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This week: Free women

Shehla has nothing to complain. While her husband Mushtaq goes for shopping, changes dirty diapers and scrubs toilets, she stays in bed untill 12:00 noon. Shehla is a singer and often performs in the evening to earn money for her family. Metropolis about free women and men under the thumb. 

 

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Next week: Police

"If everyone bribes, then why should I feel guilty?" Wazir says after he asked a car driver without a licence to pay some rupees. With this money he can buy a cup of tea. Wazir is one of the many cops in Pakistan who has to bribe to supplement his low salary.

Reports online on May 30 at 9 pm.
05/22 This week Metropolis makes a tour a along liberated women and cornered men. We will meet a bunch of Israeli army chicks, a Burkinan motorbike babe and a Mexican policewoman. Check out the preview here already! Read more...
05/21 Next week Metropolis hits the road with the police. Our correspondent in Brazil went looking for drug bosses in the favela's of Rio together with the fearless Elite Special Forces. And in Pakistan we follow the singing traffic-cop Wazir for one day. He is one of the many corrupt cops in Karachi. Read more...
05/15 Here in the Netherlands we find ourselves awfully emancipated. But what about women in Pakistan, for example? Next week Metropolis will make a tour along liberated women, and men under the thumb. Read more...
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