Slum Survivors - reality in Nairobi's Kibera - October 2007  Worldwide, more than a billion people live in slums. As many as one million of them in the Kenyan slum of Kibera. Slum Survivors tells the stories of a few of them and charts their remarkable courage in the face of extreme poverty.View Transcript
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Picking up the pieces (Northern Uganda) - October 2007  After two decades of war and displacement, it is dawning on the people of northern Uganda, they have a chance to go home. A cautious return - step by step – as peace talks progress. But how will people settle the past – with forgiveness or retributions?View Transcript
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Losing Hope - Women in Afghanistan - June 2007  When Afghanistan's long civil war finally came to an end with the fall of the Taliban in 2001, its women dared to hope. But six years later, broken promises and a resurgent Taliban have left their dreams in tatters.View Transcript
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Somalia: A State of Need - December 2006  After years of conflict and isolation, Somalia finds itself once more in turmoil. Much of the country was under the control of the Union of Islamic Courts, until their recent defeat.View Transcript |
Fields of Fire: Cluster bombs in Lebanon - November 2006  As many as one million unexploded cluster bombs litter southern Lebanon following the recent war with Israel. In the first two months after the war ended more than a hundred people have been killed or injured by these munitions.View Transcript
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The Shadows of Peace: Life after the LRA - September 2006  In Northern Uganda the bells of peace are starting to ring out. But after two decades of death, displacement and trauma, the obstacles on the path toward peace could be just as challenging as the war itself.View Transcript
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Gem Slaves: Tanzanite's child labour - September 2006  Mererani in northern Tanzania is the only place on earth where the precious stone tanzanite is mined. Every day thousands of children risk their lives in poorly constructed mine shafts for barely a meal a day. Despite efforts to curb this deadly practice, the global thirst for tanzanite continues to drive these children underground.View Transcript |
Congo's Curse - July 2006  In 1998 war broke out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Since then, ountless millions of people have been displaced, denied an education or access to health care. As many as four million people have lost their lives.View Transcript
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Aftershock: Rebuilding after the Asian earthquake - May 2006  At 08.52 am on October 8th 2005 a massive earthquake struck northern Pakistan. An estimated 73,000 people lost their lives and more than two million lost their homes. Six months after the quake, the Pakistani authorities began to move the displaced out of winter camps and back to their villages.View Transcript
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From North to South: Sudan's displaced head home - April 2006  When Sudan's warring factions signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in January 2005, millions of southerners displaced by the war started to plan their long journey home. But a stark reality awaits these people as they return to a region devoid of services and utterly devastated by war.View Transcript |
Between Two Stones - February 2006  In February 1996, the first shots of Nepal's civil war rang out across the Himalayas. Ten years on, more than 12,000 people have lost their lives as Nepal's ruling monarchy battles with Maoist rebels seeking to establish a communist republic.View Transcript |
Malaria: Killer Number One - February 2006  Malaria claims three million lives every year worldwide, most of them in the countries south of the Sahara. In Ethiopia, malaria can wipe out the lives of hundreds of thousands of villagers in a single epidemic.View Transcript |
Deadly Catch: Lake Victoria’s AIDS crisis - November 2005  More than 20 years since the discovery of the AIDS virus, and despite huge advances in the prevention and treatment of the disease, AIDS is still decimating communities across Africa. This is the story of one such community.View Transcript |
Hungry For Help: Food Crisis in Niger - August 2005  In late 2004 Aid Agencies began warning that the people of Niger were facing serious food insecurity as a consequence of drought and last year's locust invasion. But the warnings fell on deaf ears and by July 2005 dramatic pictures of the unfolding emergency began to play out in the world's media. But Niger's problems, as with much of Sub-Saharan Africa, are the consequences of poor infrastructure and lack of development. Rather than food aid, what the people of Niger really need is development aid.View Transcript |
Razor's Edge: The Controversy of Female Genital Mutilation - March 2005  Across sub-Saharan Africa millions of girls and women battle the medical, social and psychological scars of Female Genital Mutilation.View Transcript |
The Long Journey Home: Angola's Refugee Return - February 2005  In April 2002, Angola's 30 year civil war finally came to an end. And with the advent of peace millions of Angolans displaced by the fighting began to make the long journey home to an uncertain future.View Transcript |
The Eighth Plague: West Africa's Locust Invasion - December 2004  During the course of 2004, several West African countries fell victim to the largest locust invasion in 15 year as millions of hectares of crops and pasture were destroyed by giant swarms of insects.View Transcript |
Our Bodies...their battleground: Gender-based Violence during Conflict - September 2004  "Our bodies ... their battlegrounds" highlights the crisis facing women, girls and infants throughout the world, both during conflict and in its wake. This film gives a voice to victims of rape in The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia, and seeks to challenge the culture of impunity that allows this violence to continue unchecked.View Transcript |
Bittersweet Harvest: Afghanistan's New War - September 2004  Just as it emerges from more than two decades of war, Afghanistan now finds itself embroiled in yet another conflict - the war against drugs.View Transcript |
Peace Under Fire: Sudan's Darfur Crisis - May 2004  Against the background of peace talks aimed at ending more than two decades of civil war in Sudan, a vicious new civil conflict erupted in the western province of Darfur in early 2003. Tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced.View Transcript |
Uganda's Forgotten Emergency: The Unholy Terror of The Lord's Resistance Army - August 2003  Since 1986, northern Uganda has been devastated by the rebel insurgency of the Lords Resistance Army. Displacement, the forced recruitment of child soldiers and widespread atrocities are the hallmarks of the conflict.View Transcript |