About this season
Unreported World is a foreign affairs programme produced by Quicksilver Media Productions and broadcast by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. Over the course of its twenty-four series, reporters have travelled all over the world in an attempt to uncover stories usually ignored by the world media.
Episodes (8)
1. Nepal: Raising the Red Flag
Aired 21 February 2003
Sandra Jordan investigates the causes and human cost of the on-going Maoist rebellion in the world's only Hindu Kingdom.
2. Ivory Coast: Enemies Within
Aired 7 March 2003
William Wallis witnesses the horrors of a civil war born out of economic recession and fuelled by ethnic hatred.
3. Haiti: Voodoo Nation
Aired 14 March 2003
Juliana Ruhfus reports on a nation torn apart by economic collapse, political anarchy and gang warfare.
4. Mexico: The City of Lost Girls
Aired 7 November 2003
Sandra Jordan reports from Ciudad Juarez where more than 370 women have been murdered, at least 137 of them subjected to rape.
5. Uganda: The Children's War
Aired 14 November 2003
Farai Sevenso investigates the role of child solders in the 17-year-old war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Ugandan government.
6. Thailand: A Quick Fix
Aired 21 November 2003
Zaiba Malik investigates claims that the government's attempts to eradicate the world's worst methamphetamine addiction problem have led to state-sanctioned executions in the street.
7. Kenya: Trouble in Paradise
Aired 28 November 2003
Juliana Ruhfus asks if a frantic effort to regain the West's confidence is pushing Kenya's Muslim population towards extremism.
8. Israel: Clubbing on the Front Line
Aired 5 December 2003
What is it like to be a young person in Israel today, trying to live a normal life against a backdrop of conflict and the ever-present threat of suicide bombings?