Unreported World
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Unreported World is a foreign affairs programme broadcast by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. Over the course of its 12 series reporters have travelled to dangerous locations all over the world in an attempt to uncover stories usually ignored by the world media. The current series began on Friday 13, 2006 and will run for ten episodes.
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[edit] Season 11 Episodes
[edit] Sri Lanka
Sandra Jordan gains access to Tamil Tiger training camps and examines the effects of the long-running war between Tigers and government
[edit] Kenya
Aidan Hartley travels to the Dandora slums near Nairobi where gun crime and abject poverty show the growing divide between rich and poor
[edit] Western Sahara
Khaled Khazziha goes to Western Sahara, a country not officially recognised by Morocco and in a refugee camp Kazziha meets Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic
[edit] Philippines
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinay looks at the effect of the government's pro-life policy on women where illegal abortions have left 80,000 seriously injured in hospital
[edit] Nepal
Sandra Jordan reports from Kathmandu during the pro-democracy demonstrations in April 2006
[edit] Turkey
Matthew McAllester goes to Diyarbakir to find out about the rekindling of a war between Turkish troops and the Kurdish PKK group
[edit] Malaysia
Ramita Navai looks at the plight of Indonesian workers who have their passports confiscated leaving them in a position of virtual slavery and suffer domestic violence
[edit] Chad and Sudan
Peter Oborne finds evidence that the Janjawiid have crossed over from Darfur in Sudan into Chad to commit atrocities against civilians
[edit] Democratic Republic of Congo
Aidan Hartley uncovers evidence of UN troops supporting the Congolese government in a war against local militia
[edit] Brazil
Khaled Khazziha is granted permission to film in a favela in Rio de Janeiro by local drug-lords who run a parallel state
[edit] Season 12 Episodes
[edit] South Africa
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy discovers increasing xenophobic violence and racism in South Africa due to illegal immigration from other African countries such as Zimbabwe
[edit] West Papua
Aired on 20 October 2006.
Evan Williams spends three weeks undercover in West Papua, home to the world's biggest copper and gold mine where conflict rages between government forces and locals
[edit] India
Aired on 27 October 2006.
Sandra Jordan travels into the Indian jungle where government-funded militias are battling Maoist guerrillas for control of India's mineral resources
[edit] Guatemala
Aired on 3 November 2006
Ramita Navai exposes how areas of the country’s capital have degenerated into violent lawlessness in a three way battle between gangs, vigilante groups and the security forces
