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. Haiti: Showdown in Sun City
Aired 13 April 2007
Sandra Jordan reports on the UN's battle against armed gangs in Cite-Soleil.
2. Zambia & Congo: China's African Takeover
Aired 20 April 2007
Aidan Hartley reports on the human cost of the West's demand for goods such as mobile phones and MP3 players.
3. Ivory Coast: Blood and Chocolate
Aired 27 April 2007
Evan Williams reports on the conflict over cocoa, which has claimed hundreds of lives and forced thousands of people into refugee camps.
4. Boliva: Anarchy in the Andes
Aired 5 May 2007
Hamida Ghafour finds that President Evo Morales's policy of land reform in favour of the indigenous people has led to confrontation with the land barons.
5. Chongqing: Invisible City (aka Future City)
Aired 11 May 2007
Ramita Navai witnesses the rapid development of this Chinese city, and finds that the rights of workers and citizens are being compromised.
6. Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Reign of Terror
Aired 18 May 2007
Evan Williams investigates the claim that the Mugabe government is using the supply of Aids drugs and food to influence upcoming elections.
7. Kosovo: State of Denial
Aired 25 May 2007
Sam Kiley evaluates the prospects for peace between the Albanian and Serb populations as Kosovo plans for independence.
8. East Timor: Birth of a Nation
Aired 1 June 2007
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports that eight years after independence, elements of the group that spent years fighting the Indonesian army are now threatening the democratic regime.
9. Israel's Wild West
Aired 8 June 2007
Sandra Jordan sees the Israeli government stand by as West Bank settlers consolidate their power.
10. Mongolia: Ninja Nation (aka On the Trail of the Ninjas)
Aired 15 June 2007
Aidan Hartley investigates the human and environmental cost of the biggest gold rush of modern times.
11. Jamaica: Guns, Votes and Money
Aired 14 September 2007
Evan Williams investigates allegations that political parties are fuelling Kingston's shockingly high murder rate by arming and funding violent gangs in return for votes.
12. India's Broken People
Aired 21 September 2007
Ramita Navai reports on the plight of India's dalits (literally "broken people") - the 170 million "untouchables" at the bottom of a deeply ingrained caste system.
13. South Africa: Children of the Lost Generation
Aired 21 September 2007
Sam Kiley reports from Cape Flats, an impoverished township outside Cape Town, which is now in the grip of a crystal methamphetamine drug epidemic.
14. Guinea-Bissau: Cocaine Country
Aired 5 October 2007
Kate Seelye finds out how Colombian drugs traffickers have turned one of the world's poorest countries into the main transit point for hundreds of tons of cocaine smuggled into Europe every year.
15. Honduras: The War on Children
Aired 12 October 2007
Jenny Kleeman travels to Honduras, where a war has broken out between adults and children, with police death squads allegedly killing children like vermin.
16. China's Olympic Lie
Aired 19 October 2007
Aidan Hartley discovers that as Beijing is being remodelled into a shiny new Olympic city, up to 1.5 million people have been forcibly evicted from their homes.
17. Iraq: The Battle for Oil
Aired 26 October 2007
Evan Williams finds that while ethnic violence is fuelling a break up of the country, the Kurds in Northern Iraq are quietly consolidating their hold over 40% of Iraq's oil reserves.
18. Colombia: Cocaine City
Aired 2 November 2007
Hamida Ghafour travels to Buenaventura, at the centre of the Colombian cocaine trade, controlled by private armies working for the cartels who make millions of dollars shipping their drugs to America.
19. Sri Lanka: Killing for Peace
Sandra Jordan travels to Sri Lanka and discovers that a new and sinister phase in the country's 30-year civil war is taking a grim toll on civilians.
20. Congo: Children of the Genocide
Sam Kiley reveals that extremist Hutu groups behind the murder of a million people in less than 100 days in Rwanda now hold bloody control over an area the size of Belgium.