About this season
This investigative series examines social issues and trends around Asia, including suicide, gender violence and limb-lengthening surgeries.
Episodes (15)
1. Children of the Cybersex Dens
Aired 29 July 2017 • 48 min
Paedophiles worldwide are hunting for children to perform sex shows on webcams and are homing in on the Philippines, where children as young as three months old are being abused for money. In this documentary, the team follows the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), an agency of the Philippine government responsible for cases that affect the nation.
2. Witch-Hunt Diaries
Aired 5 August 2017 • 52 min
In the tribal belts of India’s Northeast, a 48 year-old widow is branded a witch and brutally lynched by her own people. In another part of the region, a witch-hunt survivor, banished from her own village for over 10 years, prepares to reclaim her life lost in superstition. Witch-hunt Diaries is the story of these two women, caught in a terrifying, medieval ritual that claims over a hundred lives in India every year.
3. Maids Enslaved
Aired 12 August 2017
4. Womb for Hire
Aired 19 August 2017
5. Lost Children of Kasur
Aired 26 August 2017
6. Botched Beauty
Aired 2 September 2017
7. Murder in Paradise
Aired 9 September 2017
8. Sextortion Suicide
Aired 16 September 2017
9. Chained in Debt
Aired 23 September 2017
10. North Korean Slaves
Aired 30 September 2017 • 45 min
Today more than 50,000 North Korean men and women are enslaved in 40 countries. Most of their salary is stolen from them to keep the Supreme Leader in power. North Korea and the countries that play host to their workers have been able to keep this modern-day slavery a secret until now.
11. Little Ghosts of War
Aired 7 October 2017
12. Blood Jade
Aired 14 October 2017
13. India's Cancer Express
Aired 21 October 2017
14. The Man in the Yellow Shirt
Aired 28 October 2017
15. Death by Blogging
Aired 4 November 2017