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Marcel Theroux tries to find out who is benefitting from the enormous gas and oil reserves in a country riddled with corruption.

Azerbaijan: All the President's Oil

Sonya Saul finds that more than a decade of exposure to the global free market has changed little for the poorest 40% of the population who still live on less than two dollars a day.

Brazil: Fighting for a Seat at the Table

Saira Shah travels to the centre of a sleeping sickness epidemic, and discovers that potentially lethal cocktails of chemicals are being injected into patients who are denied a safe drug owing to the lack of financial incentive for the major pharmaceutical companies.

Sudan: Market of Death

Jonathan Miller investigates the fate of the Ambonese people on the island of Maluku in Indonesia as that country takes part in a bitter religious war between Muslims and Christians.

Indonesia: A 21st Century War

Juliana Ruhfus finds that the lucrative mining of the ore coltan from which tantalum is extracted, and used in the production of mobile phones, is at the root of the war in Congo.

Congo: The Real Mobile Phone War

Marcel Theroux investigates life and conditions in Chechnya and how European governments are deliberately ignoring Russian atrocities and oppression in order to maintain good diplomatic and business relations with Russia.

Chechnya: Being Nice to Mr Putin

Sandra Jordan looks at the American policy of trying to solve its cocaine drugs problems by eradicating coca production in Bolivia and the consequences and effects this has on the country and its population.

Bolivia: Coca or Death

Saira Shah finds that the oil boom in Colombia has caused an increase in misery and violence for much of the population.

Colombia's Oil Fix

Imran Khan travels around Pakistan to reveal attitudes towards America, Osama Bin Laden and the military campaign and bombings in Afghanistan.

Islam and America through the Eyes of Imran Khan

Jonathan Miller looks at the economic growth of China and the price behind such economic success in terms of society and the treatment of workers.

China: Handle with Care

Kim Willsher reports on the impact of the European Union's fishing agreement on fishermen in Mauritania.

Mauritania: Selling the Future

Sandra Jordan investigates why so many young Palestinians have turned to violence in their struggle for self-determination.

Gaza: Journeys To Heaven & Hell

Marcel Theroux finds that government repression has driven young people towards joining the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and asks if the "War on Terror" will accelerate the process.

Uzbekistan: Our New Friend

Juliana Ruhfus visits at a country blighted by war and poverty and ruled by warlords, and asks if America's attempts to control Islamic extremism in the country will only further radicalise its population.

Somalia

Jonathan Miller investigates Al-Qaeda's alleged Southeast Asian connections, including the kidnap gang Abu Sayyaf.

Philippines: The Bearers of the Sword

Burhan Wazir investigates the ultra-nationalist groups who are redefining modern India.

India: Saffron Warrior

Nigeria: The Country that Doesn't Work

Jonathan Miller finds that security forces have been committing human rights abuses against civilians in their attempts to suppress a rebel army fighting for independence.

Indonesia's Dirty War

Sandra Jordan reports on how refugees deported back to El Salvador have established the gang culture they grew up with in the US.

El Salvador: Killing to Belong

Sandra Jordan investigates the causes and human cost of the on-going Maoist rebellion in the world's only Hindu Kingdom.

Nepal: Raising the Red Flag

William Wallis witnesses the horrors of a civil war born out of economic recession and fuelled by ethnic hatred.

Ivory Coast: Enemies Within

Juliana Ruhfus reports on a nation torn apart by economic collapse, political anarchy and gang warfare.

Haiti: Voodoo Nation

Sandra Jordan reports from Ciudad Juarez where more than 370 women have been murdered, at least 137 of them subjected to rape.

Mexico: The City of Lost Girls

Farai Sevenso investigates the role of child solders in the 17-year-old war between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Ugandan government.

Uganda: The Children's War

Zaiba Malik investigates claims that the government's attempts to eradicate the world's worst methamphetamine addiction problem have led to state-sanctioned executions in the street.

Thailand: A Quick Fix

Juliana Ruhfus asks if a frantic effort to regain the West's confidence is pushing Kenya's Muslim population towards extremism.

Kenya: Trouble in Paradise

What is it like to be a young person in Israel today, trying to live a normal life against a backdrop of conflict and the ever-present threat of suicide bombings?

Israel: Clubbing on the Front Line

Sandra Jordan investigates the reality of occupation and resistance in Kashmir.

India: The Killing of Kashmir

Farai Sevenso takes a look at law and order in South Africa and accompanies a private security company on patrol.

South Africa: SA Law

Juliana Ruhfus investigates the strength of Al-Qaeda in Yemen and the attitudes of the people to the US, Al-Qaeda and the "War on Terror".

Yemen: Reluctant Friends

Zaiba Malik finds that economic problems are adding to political turmoil and ethnic violence between those of African and Indian origin.

Guyana: Bitter Harvest

Sam Kiley reports on the US occupation of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan: Occupation Lite

Sandra Jordan reports on the activities of American evangelicals spreading American values along with Protestantism.

Vietnam: Hearts, Minds and Souls

Sam Kiley finds that Angola is developing into a capitalist country and a potentially important supplier of oil to the US.

Angola: America's new Frontiere

Sandra Jordan studies Hugo Chavez's relationship with the US and reports on his overwhelming referendum victory achieved in spite of US funding of opposition groups.

Venezuela: El Comandante

Sam Kiley investigates the trafficking of children in India for the sex trade in Calcutta and Bombay.

India: Land of Missing Children

Sandra Jordan reports that members of the indigenous population are rejecting western capitalism and its influence.

Peru and Bolivia: Inca Revolution

Sam Kiley investigates the worsening of tribal conflicts in Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea: Rambo Nation

Sandra Jordan investigates the spate of violence in rural areas of the south of Thailand, where it is unclear who is fighting who.

Thailand: Ghost Warriors

Sam Kiley travels to the heart of the Amazon in Brazil and reports on the rise in the use of unpaid labourers.

Brazil: Slaves of the Amazon

Peter Osborne travels to Iraq and joins a US Infantry Division based in Baqubah, near Baghdad.

Iraq: On the Front Line

Aidan Hartley reports on the increasing strength of the Islamic Courts Union, which the US alleges to be linked to Al-Qaeda.

Somalia: Al-Qaeda's New Haven

Sandra Jordan visits Gaza as the Israeli forces complete their withdrawal from the territory and asks whether the Palestinians will choose violent resistance or diplomatic negotiation as they continue to seek an independent state.

Gaza: The Bullet and the Ballot Box

Sandra Jordan gains access to Tamil Tiger training camps and examines the effects of the long-running war between Tigers and government.

Sri Lanka: Tigers in the Shadows

Aidan Hartley travels to the Dandora slums near Nairobi where gun crime and abject poverty show the growing divide between rich and poor.

Kenya: Democracy in the Dumps

Khaled Khazziha, in a refugee camp, meets Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, a country not officially recognised by Morocco.

Western Sahara: Storm in the Sahara

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.

Philippines: City of Guilt

Sandra Jordan reports from Kathmandu during the pro-democracy demonstrations of April 2006.

Nepal: Kingdom on the Edge

Matthew McAllester travels to Diyarbakir to find out about the rekindling of a war between Turkish troops and the Kurdish PKK group.

Turkey: Europe's Hidden War

Ramita Navai examines the plight of those Indonesian workers who, with their passports retained by their employers, are abused and treated as slaves.

Malaysia: Asia's Slaves

Peter Oborne finds evidence that the Janjawiid have crossed over from the Darfur region of Sudan into Chad to commit atrocities against civilians.

Chad and Sudan (Dafur)

Aidan Hartley uncovers evidence of UN troops supporting the Congolese government in a war against local militia.

Democratic Republic of Congo

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.

Brazil: Slum Warfare

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports on a huge rise in illegal immigration that has led to an increase in racism and xenophobic violence.

South Africa: The New Apartheid

This week’s Unreported World travels to one of the remotest places on earth, where journalists are forbidden to work and usually arrested when they arrive, and where a bloody conflict between government forces and locals is rarely glimpsed by the outside world.

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.

Getting in to West Papua is extremely difficult. Obtaining official journalist accreditation is virtually impossible so the team have to film clandestinely” They begin their journey in Wamena in the remote western highlands. Waiting inside a safe house, hiding from the Indonesian authorities, they meet a group of tribal warriors who have travelled for days to be there. They tell Unreported World that at least 12 of their friends have been killed by the security forces, and claim that thousands more have been killed in a campaign which could wipe out their ethnic group.

West Papua’s tribes lived in stone-age isolation until they were discovered by Europeans in the 1930s. Indonesia annexed the area in the 1969, after a group of selected West Papuans voted for annexation, but the rest of the population were not allowed a chance to vote. Since then hundreds of thousands of Indonesians have been subsidised to settle in West Papua, and they now control most of the commerce – leading to seething resentment and conflict between the two groups.

In the company of guides from the West Papuan underground, the team trek deep into ancient forests to tribal villages affected by the conflict. At one village they find the inhabitants crying and wearing mud as a sign of mourning for their children who have been allegedly killed or “disappeared” by the security forces. Some mothers are so heartbroken that they have mutilated themselves by cutting off their fingers.

But while some grieve, others have used their traditional weapons – bows, arrows and poison – against the Indonesians. Papuan students have been at the forefront of protests which have involved the deaths of Indonesian security forces and scores of them are hiding in the mountains. Reaching them involves another long trek through the forests.

The students are protesting against Freeport, the big US gold and copper mine in the South of the Province. It’s West Papua’s biggest resource, but the students claim that Freeport does not pay enough of its annual revenues to help the native inhabitants.

The team then risk immediate arrest by arranging to meet members of the West Papuan armed resistance – the outlawed Free Papua Movement (OPM). The area is so remote they have to travel by plane, deep into the highlands and close to the Freeport mine. Some OPM members have trekked for a week to meet them, and finally Kelly Kwalik, their leader and one of the most wanted men in the whole of Indonesia arrives.

He tells Unreported World that West Papua is rich in natural resources but that Papuans remain poor while Indonesians benefit.

There seems little chance of reconciliation and as the OPM members raise their flag, the act is a potent symbol of how an argument over mineral resources has become a battle against the slow suffocation of a people and their way of life.

West Papua: Rainforest Warriors

Sandra Jordan exposes how India's aspirations for a superpower economy are resulting in an increasingly bloody civil war.

India's Hidden War

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.

Guatemala: City of the Dead

Matt McAllester reports from Ogoniland where he witnesses extreme poverty within one of the richest oil fields in the world.

Nigeria: Fire in the Delta

Kate Seelyle reports from Lebanon as it struggles to rebuild following Israeli bombardment.

Lebanon on the Brink

Sandra Jordan reports on the perilous three-month journey taken each year by thousands of migrants desperate to get into the USA.

Mexico: The Longest Journey

Kate Clark investigates how Western intervention has produced a Mafia-style state in northern Afghanistan.

Afghanistan: Nevermind the Taliban

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.

Japan: Red Sun Rising

Aidan Hartley takes a look at the militant Union of Islamic Courts, which has effected the most successful Islamic revolution since 9/11.

Somalia: Hearts, Minds and Holy War

Sandra Jordan reports on the UN's battle against armed gangs in Cite-Soleil.

Haiti: Showdown in Sun City

Aidan Hartley reports on the human cost of the West's demand for goods such as mobile phones and MP3 players.

Zambia & Congo: China's African Takeover

Evan Williams reports on the conflict over cocoa, which has claimed hundreds of lives and forced thousands of people into refugee camps.

Ivory Coast: Blood and Chocolate

Hamida Ghafour finds that President Evo Morales's policy of land reform in favour of the indigenous people has led to confrontation with the land barons.

Boliva: Anarchy in the Andes

Ramita Navai witnesses the rapid development of this Chinese city, and finds that the rights of workers and citizens are being compromised.

Chongqing: Invisible City (aka Future City)

Evan Williams investigates the claim that the Mugabe government is using the supply of Aids drugs and food to influence upcoming elections.

Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Reign of Terror

Sam Kiley evaluates the prospects for peace between the Albanian and Serb populations as Kosovo plans for independence.

Kosovo: State of Denial

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports that eight years after independence, elements of the group that spent years fighting the Indonesian army are now threatening the democratic regime.

East Timor: Birth of a Nation

Sandra Jordan sees the Israeli government stand by as West Bank settlers consolidate their power.

Israel's Wild West

Aidan Hartley investigates the human and environmental cost of the biggest gold rush of modern times.

Mongolia: Ninja Nation (aka On the Trail of the Ninjas)

Evan Williams investigates allegations that political parties are fuelling Kingston's shockingly high murder rate by arming and funding violent gangs in return for votes.

Jamaica: Guns, Votes and Money

Ramita Navai reports on the plight of India's dalits (literally "broken people") - the 170 million "untouchables" at the bottom of a deeply ingrained caste system.

India's Broken People

Sam Kiley reports from Cape Flats, an impoverished township outside Cape Town, which is now in the grip of a crystal methamphetamine drug epidemic.

South Africa: Children of the Lost Generation

Kate Seelye finds out how Colombian drugs traffickers have turned one of the world's poorest countries into the main transit point for hundreds of tons of cocaine smuggled into Europe every year.

Guinea-Bissau: Cocaine Country

Jenny Kleeman travels to Honduras, where a war has broken out between adults and children, with police death squads allegedly killing children like vermin.

Honduras: The War on Children

Aidan Hartley discovers that as Beijing is being remodelled into a shiny new Olympic city, up to 1.5 million people have been forcibly evicted from their homes.

China's Olympic Lie

Evan Williams finds that while ethnic violence is fuelling a break up of the country, the Kurds in Northern Iraq are quietly consolidating their hold over 40% of Iraq's oil reserves.

Iraq: The Battle for Oil

Hamida Ghafour travels to Buenaventura, 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.

Colombia: Cocaine City

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.

Egypt's Rubbish People

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.

USA: The Devil's Highway

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.

Nicaragua: Blood, Church and State

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.

Russia: Railway of Bones

Ramita Navai finds out what it's like to live in this poor, extremely overpopulated, flat country on the front line of climate change.

Bangladesh: The Drowning Country

Nima Elbagir meets an Arab militia accused of being an important element of the Janjaweed, blamed for the atrocities in Darfur.

Sudan: Meet the Janjaweed

Sam Kiley finds Israel and Hamas on a collision course, each new 'incursion' or 'terror attack' seemingly driving them on towards outright war.

Gaza: Reign of the Rockets

Evan Williams visits the only country in the world to recognize Voodoo as a state religion.

Benin: Voodoo Children

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.

Brazil: The Amazon's Golden Curse

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.

Kenya's Human Time Bomb

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'

South Africa: Body Parts for Sale

Jenny Kleeman investigates the allegations varying from fraud to physical and sexual abuse being faced by some of Kerala's 3,000 holy men.

India: God's Own Country

Aidan Hartley reports on the continuing bitter ethnic conflict between Georgians and Abkhazians which has cost thousands of lives over the last decade.

Abkhazia: Valley Of The Lost

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.

Paraguay's Painful Harvest

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.

Philippines' Dirty War

Nima Elbagir finds Venezuelans turning to the spirits of dead gangster criminals for protection against crime.

Venezuela: Cult of the Thugs

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.

Thailand: Lessons in Terror

Yemen: Sea of Tears

This programme reveals how the demand for cocaine has led to thousands of deaths in Mexico.

Mexico: Seven Days in Hell

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 to dangerous locations all over the world in an attempt to uncover stories usually ignored by the world media. The first episode of series 24 was broadcast on 2 November, 2012.

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