Unreported World

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2008
2008x1
Egypt's Rubbish People
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Evan Williams visits the Zabbaleen, a Coptic Christian community in Cairo living and working in rubbish in ghettos overrun by rats, who claim that they are treated as second-class citizens.
2008x2
USA: The Devil's Highway
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Aidan Hartley reports from the Sonoran Desert in Northern Mexico, crossed every day by thousands of illegal immigrants from Central and South America, desperate to reach the USA.
2008x3
Nicaragua: Blood, Church and State
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Kate Seelye reports on the consequences of a total ban on abortions, with women scared to visit hospitals and doctors afraid to carry out life-saving operations on female patients.
2008x4
Russia: Railway of Bones
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Sam Kiley discovers a nation where political dissent is stifled, corruption is rife, and where little of its huge wealth reaches a population racked by poverty, alcoholism and suicide.
2008x5
Bangladesh: The Drowning Country
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Ramita Navai finds out what it's like to live in this poor, extremely overpopulated, flat country on the front line of climate change.
2008x6
Sudan: Meet the Janjaweed
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Nima Elbagir meets an Arab militia accused of being an important element of the Janjaweed, blamed for the atrocities in Darfur.
2008x7
Gaza: Reign of the Rockets
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Sam Kiley finds Israel and Hamas on a collision course, each new 'incursion' or 'terror attack' seemingly driving them on towards outright war.
2008x8
Benin: Voodoo Children
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Evan Williams visits the only country in the world to recognize Voodoo as a state religion.
2008x9
Brazil: The Amazon's Golden Curse
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Jenny Kleeman reveals how the record high price of gold brought about by the global financial crisis is affecting some of the earth's most isolated people.
2008x10
Kenya's Human Time Bomb
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Aidan Hartley finds the government, UN and NGOs all refusing to acknowledge the high birthrate as the major cause of poverty, violence, homelessness and pollution.
2008x11
South Africa: Body Parts for Sale
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Ramita Navai reveals that hundreds of people have been killed for body parts to be used in traditional medicine and meets a man who admits to torturing and killing people as part of his trade - as a 'healer'
2008x12
India: God's Own Country
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Jenny Kleeman investigates the allegations varying from fraud to physical and sexual abuse being faced by some of Kerala's 3,000 holy men.
2008x13
Abkhazia: Valley Of The Lost
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Aidan Hartley reports on the continuing bitter ethnic conflict between Georgians and Abkhazians which has cost thousands of lives over the last decade.
2008x14
Paraguay's Painful Harvest
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Tanya Datta reports on a nationwide peasant uprising against farmers of genetically-modified soya who are mainly Brazilian and seen as colonists partly responsible for the almost total deforestation of the eastern provinces.
2008x15
Philippines' Dirty War
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Evan Williams reports on an armed rebel group's efforts to seize control of the country's resources from the 135 families who hold economic and political power, as hundreds of students, activists and left wing politicians disappear without trace.
2008x16
Venezuela: Cult of the Thugs
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Nima Elbagir finds Venezuelans turning to the spirits of dead gangster criminals for protection against crime.
2008x17
Thailand: Lessons in Terror
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Seyi Rhodes finds schools on the front-line in a battle for hearts and minds between the Thai government and the extremists among Muslim separatists in the ethnic Malay south.
2008x18
Yemen: Sea of Tears
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2008x19
Mexico: Seven Days in Hell
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This programme reveals how the demand for cocaine has led to thousands of deaths in Mexico.