
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 (20)
1. Sri Lanka: Tigers in the Shadows
Aired 21 April 2006
Sandra Jordan gains access to Tamil Tiger training camps and examines the effects of the long-running war between Tigers and government.
2. Kenya: Democracy in the Dumps
Aired 28 April 2006
Aidan Hartley travels to the Dandora slums near Nairobi where gun crime and abject poverty show the growing divide between rich and poor.
3. Western Sahara: Storm in the Sahara
Aired 5 May 2006
Khaled Khazziha, in a refugee camp, meets Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, a country not officially recognised by Morocco.
4. Philippines: City of Guilt
Aired 12 May 2006
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinay looks at the impact of the government's pro-life policy on women as illegal abortions have left 80,000 seriously injured.
5. Nepal: Kingdom on the Edge
Aired 19 May 2006
Sandra Jordan reports from Kathmandu during the pro-democracy demonstrations of April 2006.
6. Turkey: Europe's Hidden War
Aired 26 May 2006
Matthew McAllester travels to Diyarbakir to find out about the rekindling of a war between Turkish troops and the Kurdish PKK group.
7. Malaysia: Asia's Slaves
Aired 2 June 2006
Ramita Navai examines the plight of those Indonesian workers who, with their passports retained by their employers, are abused and treated as slaves.
8. Chad and Sudan (Dafur)
Aired 9 June 2006
Peter Oborne finds evidence that the Janjawiid have crossed over from the Darfur region of Sudan into Chad to commit atrocities against civilians.
9. Democratic Republic of Congo
Aired 23 June 2006
Aidan Hartley uncovers evidence of UN troops supporting the Congolese government in a war against local militia.
10. Brazil: Slum Warfare
Aired 30 June 2006
Khaled Khazziha films in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, with the permission of the local drug-lords who run it as a state within a state.
11. South Africa: The New Apartheid
Aired 13 October 2006
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports on a huge rise in illegal immigration that has led to an increase in racism and xenophobic violence.
12. West Papua: Rainforest Warriors
Aired 20 October 2006
Reporter Evan Williams and Director Siobhan Sinnerton spend three weeks undercover in West Papua, an outlying province of Indonesia in the Western Pacific, which is home to the world’s biggest copper and gold mine.
13. India's Hidden War
Aired 27 October 2006
Sandra Jordan exposes how India's aspirations for a superpower economy are resulting in an increasingly bloody civil war.
14. Guatemala: City of the Dead
Aired 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.
15. Nigeria: Fire in the Delta
Aired 10 November 2006
Matt McAllester reports from Ogoniland where he witnesses extreme poverty within one of the richest oil fields in the world.
16. Lebanon on the Brink
Aired 17 November 2006
Kate Seelyle reports from Lebanon as it struggles to rebuild following Israeli bombardment.
17. Mexico: The Longest Journey
Aired 24 November 2006
Sandra Jordan reports on the perilous three-month journey taken each year by thousands of migrants desperate to get into the USA.
18. Afghanistan: Nevermind the Taliban
Aired 1 December 2006
Kate Clark investigates how Western intervention has produced a Mafia-style state in northern Afghanistan.
19. Japan: Red Sun Rising
Aired 8 December 2006
Evan Williams on how 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.
20. Somalia: Hearts, Minds and Holy War
Aired 15 December 2006
Aidan Hartley takes a look at the militant Union of Islamic Courts, which has effected the most successful Islamic revolution since 9/11.