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Jamaica
India's Broken People
South Africa:
Children of the Lost Generation
Guinea Bissau:
Cocaine Country
Iraq:
The Battle for Oil
Honduras:
The War on Children
China:
China's Olympic Lie
Columbia:
Cocaine City
Sri Lanka:
Killing for Peace
Congo:
Children of the Genocide
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Jamaica
Jamaica has one of the highest murder rates in the world. In this documentary reporter Evan Williams and producer James Brabazon try to find out who is behind the killing and why the politicians are doing so little to end violence that is trapping Jamaicans in poverty and despair. Are they, in fact, actively encouraging gang rule? Williams’ first stop is the garrison of Tower Hill in Kingston, where a man has just been shot dead by police….
“This gritty global series, returning with a powerful film.”
Evening Standard
“Startling …a million miles from the Caribbean idyll of the holiday brochures.”
Daily Mail
“A powerful illustration of the unlovely heart of a beautiful country that the tourists never see.”
The Guardian
India’s Broken People
Ramita Navai reports on the plight of India's "broken people" -the 170 million people at the bottom of the caste system. Although Indian law prohibits caste discrimination, the Untouchables remain the victims of institutionalised oppression on a vast scale. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister, has described their condition as "a blot on humanity". Navai watches as they clean lavatories manually, even though it is against the law to remove or carry excrement by hand; she hears first-hand accounts of some of the 24,000 attacks on the Untouchables that take place every year, and a child describes how his teacher told him: "You're a rat eater. Don't mix with other children. You stick with your rat eaters."
“At times disturbing and graphic but always incredibly moving reportage of a people who are largely without a voice... a must...”
The Observer
South Africa: Children of the Lost Generation
Reporter Sam Kiley and Producer Paul Kittel travel to the Cape Flats in South Africa, an impoverished township created by apartheid in the swamps and sand dunes outside Cape Town, which is now in the grip of a crystal methamphetamine drug epidemic. "Tic" is smoked through a glass pipe known as a lolly; it is easy to get hold of, simple to prepare and highly addictive. In South Africa it comes from the Chinese triads, who sell it in exchange for abalone shellfish. One in five South Africans is HIV-positive and there is 40 per cent unemployment in the Cape Flats. The drug has produced a sharp rise in psychiatric problems and a 200 per cent surge in drug-related crime in one year. Thirteen years of freedom in South Africa have not translated into prosperity for all and Cape Town epitomises the problems faced by the majority, in a country where someone is murdered every 30 minutes.…
“This film manages to stay true to the strand's title with clarity and compassion.”
Sunday Times
Guinea Bissau: Cocaine Country
Colombian drugs traffickers have taken advantage of one of the world's poorest countries and turned it into the main transit point for hundreds of tons of cocaine smuggled into Europe every year.
Reporter Kate Seelye and producer Ed Watts report from Guinea Bissau in West Africa, and reveals the astonishing extent to which Colombian drugs traffickers have taken advantage of one of the world's poorest countries and turned it into the main transit point for hundreds of tons of cocaine smuggled into Europe every year.
With chronic poverty, rampant corruption and almost no police or customs, the Colombians have “bought" the country, flooding it with drugs money and creating Africa's first "narco-state".…
Iraq: The Battle for Oil
While Sunnis and Shias battle for control of Baghdad, Unreported World travels to northern Iraq where Kurds are quietly consolidating their hold 40% of Iraq's oil reserves and ethnic violence is fuelling a break up of the country.
Reporter Evan Williams and Director Paul Kittel travel to Kirkuk, at the heart of the oil fields. It's claimed by three ethnic groups - Arabs, Kurds, and Turkomans. At stake is an area that sits on forty percent of Iraq's oil reserves. If Iraq ever breaks up the Kurds want to be certain this oil is theirs…
Honduras: the War on children
Reporter Jenny Kleeman and producer George Waldrum travel to Honduras, the tiny country in Central America with a population of seven million people -half of whom are under the age of 18. Only 40 per cent of children finish primary school. The fathers are often away in America working illegally, and thousands of kids are left to fend for themselves on the streets, scavenging on rubbish dumps and sniffing glue and paint thinner. As a result, a war has broken out between adults and children, with police death squads allegedly killing children like vermin.
“Brutality on a massive scale, and suitably powerful viewing”
The Observer
China's Olympic Lie
As reporter Aidan Hartley and producer Andrew Carter discover Beijing is being remodelled into a shiny new Olympic city. But as old neighbourhoods are demolished, up to 1.5 million people have been forcibly evicted from their homes. Those who dare to protest can find themselves locked up without charge or trial in one of Beijing's black jails. The authorities deny these jails exist, but, in a world exclusive, Unreported World films inside one of them…
“Disturbing”
Daily Mail
“...the last programme the Chinese authorities would want anyone to see in the run-up to the Olympics”
The Times
Colombia: Cocaine City
Reporter Hamida Ghafour and producer James Brabazon travel to one of the strangest, wildest cities on earth - Buenaventura, on Colombia's Pacific coast. There is little running water or electricity in Buenaventura and housing is so scarce that people have constructed whole neighbourhoods of shacks built on stilts. Over the last two years violent death has become an everyday fact in this city of around 300,000 people. Everyone is affected, almost everyone has lost someone.
Ghafour sets out to uncover what's behind the violence and the rules by which people in the city must live. She quickly learns this town is 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…
Sri Lanka: Killing for Peace
Sandra Jordan and Siobhan Sinnerton travel to Sri Lanka and discover that a new and sinister phase in the country's 30-year civil war is taking a grim toll on civilians. With the government now declaring that the Tamil Tigers must be defeated using military force, the country has been plagued by extra-judicial killings, abductions and civilian displacement. They find the Tamil minority in the grip of fear and investigate alleged collusion between the military and shady paramilitary groups. Some of these, they discover, are former Tamil Tigers now working against their former comrades. The team reach the besieged city of Jaffna, the first journalists to do so for many months…
Congo: Children of the Genocide
Reporter Sam Kiley and producer Ed Watts travel to Congo’s Great Lakes region to reveal 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.
Once known as the Interahamwe, or "those who kill together", the militia who carried out the Rwandan genocide now call themselves the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). But, as Unreported World reveals, their methods are still brutal and they are being blamed for a pandemic of rape.
"Exemplary news television”
The Observer
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