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 October, 2006 and will run for ten episodes.
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[edit] Season 10 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 Diyarbakır 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 10 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
Nigeria: Fire in the Delta (5/10)
The inhabitants of Ogoniland in Nigeria live in one the most unstable regions in Africa. Surviving in conditions of extreme poverty within one of the richest oil fields in the world, they are caught in the crossfire between armed gangs sabotaging production and intervening security forces. Journalist Matt McAllester reports.
Lebanon on the Brink (6/10)
An insight into the unstable political situation in Lebanon as it struggles to rebuild following Israeli bombardment. Supporters of Hezbullah and those who oppose the party voice their concerns to journalist Kate Seelyle.
Mexico (7/10)
Sandra Jordan reports on the perilous three-month journey taken each year by thousands of migrants desperate to get into the USA. They cross the river border between Guatemala and Mexico aboard makeshift rafts, avoiding immigration police and armed gangsters before risking their lives again riding a one-kilometre long, US-bound freight train.
Afghanistan: Nevermind the Taliban (8/10)
A look at how Western intervention has produced a Mafia-style state in northern Afghanistan, leaving the democratic structures in a perilous state. Allegations of corruption are rife in an economy dominated by the drugs trade, with commanders from the Northern Alliance accused of re-arming themselves while selling on weapons to their old enemies the Taliban. Kate Clark investigates.
Japan: Red Sun Rising (9/10)
An increasingly influential far-right nationalist movement is trying to persuade the Japanese government to rewrite the country's constitution and become a nuclear power, such is the threat of a resurgent China and a bellicose North Korea. Reporter Evan Williams meets members of hardcore factions, allegedly funded and controlled by an alliance of mafia bosses and nationalist politicians, who have been accused of using intimidation, arson and physical violence to enforce their vision of a patriotic Japan.
Somalia: Hearts, Minds and Holy War (10/10)
The militant Union of Islamic Courts has effected the most successful Islamic revolution since 9/11. While western powers failed to recue Somalia from years of anarchy, UIC has wooed ordinary people with rapid improvements to their lives. But Wahhabi hardliners who dominate the Jihadist movement are starting to establish a Taliban style state, anathema to the moderate traditions of the country's Sunnis. Reporter Aidan Hartley investigates.
