E1 - Sri Lanka: Tigers in the Shadows

Aired: April 21, 2006

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

E2 - Kenya: Democracy in the Dumps

Aired: April 28, 2006

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

E3 - Western Sahara: Storm in the Sahara

Aired: May 05, 2006

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

E4 - Philippines: City of Guilt

Aired: May 12, 2006

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.

E5 - Nepal: Kingdom on the Edge

Aired: May 19, 2006

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

E6 - Turkey: Europe's Hidden War

Aired: May 26, 2006

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

E7 - Malaysia: Asia's Slaves

Aired: June 02, 2006

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

E8 - Chad and Sudan (Dafur)

Aired: June 09, 2006

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

E9 - Democratic Republic of Congo

Aired: June 23, 2006

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

E10 - Brazil: Slum Warfare

Aired: June 30, 2006

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.

E11 - South Africa: The New Apartheid

Aired: October 13, 2006

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

E12 - West Papua: Rainforest Warriors

Aired: October 20, 2006

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.

E13 - India's Hidden War

Aired: October 27, 2006

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

E14 - Guatemala: City of the Dead

Aired: November 03, 2006

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.

E15 - Nigeria: Fire in the Delta

Aired: November 10, 2006

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

E16 - Lebanon on the Brink

Aired: November 17, 2006

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

E17 - Mexico: The Longest Journey

Aired: November 24, 2006

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

E18 - Afghanistan: Nevermind the Taliban

Aired: December 01, 2006

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

E19 - Japan: Red Sun Rising

Aired: December 08, 2006

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.

E20 - Somalia: Hearts, Minds and Holy War

Aired: December 15, 2006

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