Unreported World Season 17

March. 18,2016      
Rating:
8.4
Trailer Synopsis

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.

Episode 16 : Sex for Grades
November. 25,2016
In Mozambique, Unreported World investigates the disturbing phenomenon of teachers forcing schoolgirls to have sex with them in return for good grades, or for their deserved grades.
Episode 15 : South Africa's Skin Bleaching Scandal
November. 18,2016
Unreported World investigates why one in three women in South Africa reportedly use potentially dangerous skin-bleaching products, in spite of strict laws,
Episode 14 : The Prison from Hell
November. 11,2016
Seyi Rhodes gains access to one of the most notorious prisons on Earth: Haiti's National Penitentiary, where 80% of inmates have been locked up without being convicted of any crime.
Episode 13 : The Fish Bombers
November. 04,2016
Malaysian Borneo's beautiful coral reefs face environmental disaster as local fishermen resort to drastic, destructive fishing methods in order to survive, including using explosives or sodium cyanide
Episode 12 : Vietnam's Toxic Legacy
October. 28,2016
Ade Adepitan investigates the legacy of a toxic herbicide dropped by US forces during the Vietnam War, which some doctors believe is causing health problems in a new generation of children.
Episode 11 : Exiled: Europe's Gay Refugees
October. 14,2016
Unreported World meets gay refugees who have fled to Germany from the Middle East but are still subject to violent attacks and abuse, from fellow refugees and migrants.
Episode 10 : India's Blind Daters
October. 07,2016
Marcel Theroux reports from India on matchmaking schemes for people with disabilities to find husbands and wives, while also navigating the complexities of caste, religion and parents' expectations
Episode 9 : Yemen: Britain's Unseen War
September. 30,2016
Channel 4's multi-award winning Unreported World returns with a powerful new episode from Yemen revealing the catastrophic effect of the Saudi-led coalition's bombing campaign, which is being carried out using British-supplied weapons. The bombing, together with a naval blockade on Yemen's major port, has resulted in a humanitarian emergency threatening millions with starvation. Reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and director Patrick Wells are the first international crew to film in Hodeidah port, which is critical to Yemen's food imports and has been disabled by bombing.
Episode 8 : Iran's Dating Revolution
May. 06,2016
Many young Iranians are shunning marriage and enjoying new ways to meet people, like Instagram. But it's hard to balance this modern approach to life with the older generation's traditional values.
Episode 7 : The Betrayal of Kenya's Athletes
April. 29,2016
In four years, more than 40 Kenyan athletes have failed doping tests. Ade Adepitan visits Kenya as it faces a World Anti-Doping Agency deadline to put its house in order.
Episode 6 : The Forgotten Holocaust Survivors
April. 22,2016
Krishan Guru-Murthy reveals how tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors in Israel are spending their final days living in poverty despite billions of dollars of reparation payments.
Episode 5 : How to Stop a Murder
April. 15,2016
In America's murder capital - Chicago - Seyi Rhodes meets volunteer ex-gang members who risk their lives to try to halt cycles of revenge killings, in the face of budget cuts.
Episode 4 : Mission Critical: Afghanistan
April. 08,2016
Abigail Austen has unique, extraordinary access to the battle against Isis and the Taliban in Afghanistan, where the Taliban are threatening to take everything Britain helped fight for.
Episode 3 : The City with No Water
April. 01,2016
Reporter Fazeelat Aslam and director Karim Shah reveal how thousands of families living in Pakistan's richest city, Karachi, are suffering from chronic water shortages as a result of climate change, mismanagement, corrupt officials and criminal gangs. Their eye-opening report shows how drastic the situation has become, with families who are running out of supplies sometimes having to spend half their salary buying water illegally from criminals, or wait up night after night to see if community water taps will be turned on for a couple of hours.
Episode 2 : Find My Kid Drugs
March. 25,2016
Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Patrick Wells travel to Venezuela, where they are joined by a family's frantic door-to-door search for medicines for their desperately ill daughter. This is one of the thousands of families who are affected by the shortage of drugs and medical equipment across the country. The episode visits a hospital lacking items as basic as antibiotics, and if doctors decide to speak out they are labelled anti-revolutionaries. The show will reveal how one of the world's biggest oil producers has been crippled by an economic disaster.
Episode 1 : Muslim, Trans and Banned
March. 18,2016
Reporter Marcel Theroux and director Victoria Bell are in Malaysia, where the government has declared transgender people to be enemies of Islam. There they meet the Trans women who are forced to live in what human rights groups say is one of the worst places in the world to be transgender and accompany the country's religious police as they crackdown on anything considered ‘un-Islamic'.

Seasons

Season 25
Season 25 2024
Season 24
Season 24 2023
Season 23
Season 23 2022
Season 22
Season 22 2021
Season 21
Season 21 2020
Season 20
Season 20 2019
Season 19
Season 19 2019
Season 18
Season 18 2018
Season 17
Season 17 2016
Season 16
Season 16 2015
Season 15
Season 15 2014
Season 14
Season 14 2013
Season 13
Season 13 2012
Season 12
Season 12 2011
Season 11
Season 11 2010
Season 10
Season 10 2009
Season 9
Season 9 2008
Season 8
Season 8 2007
Season 7
Season 7 2006
Season 6
Season 6 2005
Season 5
Season 5 2004
Season 4
Season 4 2003
Season 3
Season 3 2002
Season 2
Season 2 2001
Season 1
Season 1 2000

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