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Ingushetia:
Russia's Dirty War
Philippines:
Holy Warriors
Peru:
Blood and Oil
Liberia:
Stolen Childhood
Guatemala:
Riding with the devil
Greece:
The Unwanted
South Sudan:
Nepal:
The Living Dead
Malaysia:
Refugees for Sale
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Ingushetia: Russia's Dirty War;
Channel 4, Friday 25 September 2009, 7:35pm
Reporter Evan Williams and director Clancy Chassay travel to the Russian Republic of Ingushetia where a bloody conflict is being waged against innocent civilians. The team investigates allegations that government security forces have brutally tortured and killed hundreds of people who they suspect to be Ingushu rebels. The Russians believe their actions are preventing Ingushetia becoming a new home for global jihad-but this increasingly violent campaign threatens to become another Chechyna.
'C4's foreign affairs strand returns for a new series, prompting the usual feelings of gratitude that it exists, and vexation that there isn't more of this sort of thing on television…… Brave, thoughtful and inquisitive journalism - as usual'
The Guardian
Philippines: Holy Warriors;
Channel 4, Friday 02 October 2009, 7:35pm
This week’s Unreported World comes from the southern Filipino island of Mindanao where reporter Peter Oborne and director George Waldrum find a fierce sectarian battle raging between Muslims and Christians. The conflict is claiming thousands of lives and leaving behind a trail of humanitarian disaster. The team discovers that the conflict is not is just based on religious hatred, but a struggle to claim areas of land rich with mineral deposits- worth billions of dollars. The sectarian violence has already left 100, 000 people dead and 600,000 driven from their homes-but with the land promising such riches there is little hope of the conflict ebbing.
'..a vivid story of intense, cross-generational hatreds’
The Times
Peru: Blood and Oil;
Channel 4, Friday 09 October 2009, 7:30pm
Reporter Ramita Navai and director Alex Nott report from one of the remotest parts of the Peruvian Jungle. The government’s sale of Amazonian land to global oil, gas and mining corporations is resulting in violent clashes with indigenous tribes. The exploitation of their land is leading to a rebellion by frustrated indigenous groups who say they will not give up the fight until the government responds to their plight. The team investigates allegations that the indigenous people are suffering from environmental damage and human rights abuses at the hands of the multinationals. The villages claim they are being left severely sick from oil companies polluting their rivers and that resistance by the villagers has been met by violent reprisals.
‘Unreported World asserts its value with this report by Ramita Navai from deepest, darkest Peru.” '
The Guardian
Liberia: Stolen Childhood;
Channel 4, Friday 16 October 2009, 7:35pm
This week`s Unreported World travels to Liberia, a country where during the civil war rape was systematically used as a weapon to terrorise the country`s children. Six years on, reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Matt Hann investigate how child rape is still common place with a quarter of the victims, shockingly, under four years old. The team finds a culture of impunity and a nation where men are seeking out young girls to have sex with-leaving a generation of traumatized children.
'Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Matt Haan have produced a shocking film which documents the legacy of a lawless, rape-at-will culture which existed during the conflict in which children were seen as sexual objects. Worthy of an award.”'.
The Observer
'Jenny Kleeman's report on the epidemic of child rape in Liberia is doubly devastating for the calmness of its delivery - this is not a story that needs embellishing with a reporter's disgust and indignation'.
The Times
Guatemala; riding with the devil;
Channel 4, Friday 23 October 2009. 7:30pm
Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Matt Haan travel to Guatemala City where bus drivers are being terrorized and murdered by criminal gangs in a campaign of extortion. One bus driver is being murdered every other day. Extortion is so profitable that the gangs do not stop at the bus companies. Practically every business in the city is a potential earner. The team investigates how these gangs are earning millions of pounds while gripping the city in a state of perpetual fear.
'This eternally sobering series illustrates a country collapsing into bloody chaos'
The Scotsman
‘A sad, shameful expose’
The Guardian
Greece: The Unwanted ;
Channel 4, Friday 30 October 2009, 7:30pm
Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Jacob Waite travel to the European Union `s eastern border where hundreds of thousands of Afghan migrants are illegally making their way to our shores in a desperate bid to start a new life in Europe. The team follows their perilous journey as migrants stow themselves in lorries and risk their lives in rickety boats crossing the seas. They investigate how unsanitary and overcrowded the detention centres are in Greece, the dismal life that awaits the migrants that do make it to Athens and the hardships faced by those hoping to settle elsewhere in Europe
‘In another exemplary dispatch reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Jacob White travel to the EU's eastern border, to the illicit crossing points for thousands of Afghans making their way to Europe, in most cases to escape the scourge of the Taliban... Important, committed, responsible journalism’
The Observer
South Sudan;How to Fuel a Famine
Channel 4, Friday 06 November 2009, 7:30pm
Reporter Ramita Navai and director Julie Noon travel to the South of Sudan to investigate an alarming development in the targeted killing of women and children.
2000 people have been killed during 2009 alone and a quarter of a million people displaced. Families are being torn apart and much of the population are on the brink of starvation. The team investigates how an escalation of violence and an increase in child abductions is threatening to jeopardise a fragile peace in a country that has already suffered the longest and bloodiest civil war in the continents’ history
‘the crusading strand shows how women and children bear the brunt of violence in areas of conflict. Ramita Navai and director Julie Noon travel to southern Sudan to see the extent of the unrest that has left more than 2,000 people dead this year, and discover children are not only at risk from malnutrition and armed attacks, but also increasing incidence of child-abduction.”’
The Sunday Times
‘A moving, appalling dispatch…’
The Observer
Nepal: The Living Dead ;
Channel 4, Friday 13 November 2009, 7:35pm
Reporter Yemi Ipaye and director Katherine Chrucher travel to Nepal to report on the fate of child widows who are being ostracised from society. In a country where child marriage is widespread they find widows as young as thirteen being forced into servitude or prostitution, and subject to physical abuse by their relatives who treat them with total disdain. The team investigates how an unprecedented battle has arisen between the government, who are offering to pay men to marry widows, and the widows of Nepal who refuse to be treated as a commodity.
'A powerful film from reporter Yemi Ipaye and director Katherine Churcher about the plight of Nepal's child widows, many of whom face abuse and servitude for the rest of their lives.”'
The Observer
‘Without Unreported World, such horrors would go unnoticed.” ’
The Times
Malaysia: Refugees for Sale;
Channel 4, Friday 20 November, 7:30pm
Unreported World reveals shocking evidence that Burmese refugees fleeing the country's brutal military regime are being detained and then allegedly sold by Malaysian immigration officials to Thai human traffickers.
Reporter Aidan Hartley and Director George Waldrum travel to Kuala Lumpur to highlight how the refugees are forced to exchange one hellish existence for another. Living in complete fear of the state, the refugees claim they are being rounded up and subjected to bloody whippings and imprisonment in detention camps. As Unreported World reveals, for some this is just the beginning of a horrific journey into the trafficking network, where men, women and children disappear into a world of slavery and prostitution.
'….Every half-hour [Unreported World] episode is a miniature masterpiece, outlining a desperate situation in swift, sure strokes, and last night's Refugees for Sale was no exception….Another fine portrait of an ugly beast from Unreported World.'
The Guardian
Executive Producer: Eamonn Matthews
Series Editor: Siobhan Sinnerton
Unreported World is a Quicksilver Media Production for Channel 4.
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