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