Throng

7:30pm Friday, July 2 on C4

Reporter Aidan Hartley and director Katherine Churcher travel to Colombia to investigate how the country's indigenous people have been targeted in a string of massacres perpetrated by guerrillas, paramilitary groups and the security forces. Colombia's government claims success in its war against left-wing FARC guerrillas. But the country is still beset with a conflict that is killing thousands. And as the Unreported World team discovers at a jungle massacre site where the pools of blood are still drying, behind the continuing violence there is a state of complete impunity.

7:30pm Friday, June 25 on C4

Reporter Ramita Navai and producer Clancy Chassay travel across the USA talking to the new middle-class victims of the country's homelessness epidemic. They find families struggling to hold down jobs that pay so little they're forced to live in tent cities or their cars and receive little help from the government.

7:30pm Friday, June 11 on C4

Reporter Ramita Navai and director Alex Nott travel to El Salvador, which is in the grip of the worst gang violence in a decade. They reveal the shocking fact that many of the gangs' hitmen are children who kill and die with appalling frequency but accept it as part of normal life. Navai also exposes another disturbing trend: the torture and murder of young teenage girls: victims of a gang culture that regards them as sexual objects.

7:35pm Friday, June 4 on C4

Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Matt Haan descend deep underground into Bolivia's silver mines to find boys as young as 13 working long hours in deadly conditions. The thick dust and poisonous gases in the mines mean the children face the near-certainty of crippling lung disease and a life expectancy of little more than 35 years. Bolivia has signed international agreements banning under-16s from working in underground mines, but from what the team sees, they simply aren't being enforced.

7:35pm Friday, May 21 on C4

Unreported World gets a rare glimpse into the Karen region of Burma, with reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Simon Phillips spending two weeks trekking through forests to reveal the devastation the Burmese army is inflicting as it intensifies its war against the Karen people.

7:35pm Friday, May 14 on C4

Unreported World returns, travelling to Malawi to reveal that children as young as three are being illegally employed to produce tobacco, much of it destined to be consumed by British smokers. Malawi's children suffer health problems from handling tobacco and some are trapped in bonded labour arrangements, leaving them unable to escape. Little seems to be being done to protect their health and wellbeing.

Friday, April 9 on 4

Reporter Evan Williams and Director Will West are granted rare access to the Pakistan headquarters of what the US and UN say is a front organisation for one of the world's biggest terrorist networks, and the organisation behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks. While the group says it's a charity set up to help the poor, Unreported World talks to insiders, government ministers and terrorism experts to investigate the truth about an organisation that has expanded its activities from Kashmir to attacking Western targets outside Pakistan.

Friday, November 27 on 4

Unreported World travels to Israel to reveal how the rapid growth of Jewish "fundamentalists" is creating tension within Israeli society and endangering any negotiations on a peace deal with the Palestinians. Reporter Evan Williams and director Alex Nott visit the Mea Sharim district of Jerusalem, the heartland of ultra-Orthodox Jews known as the Haredi, or "those who fear God".

Friday, November 20 on 4

Unreported World reveals shocking evidence that Burmese refugees fleeing the country's brutal military regime are being detained and then allegedly sold by Malaysian immigration officials to Thai human traffickers. Reporter Aidan Hartley and director George Waldrum travel to Kuala Lumpur to highlight how the refugees can end up on a horrific journey into the trafficking network, where men, women and children disappear into a world of slavery and prostitution.

Friday, November 13 on 4

Unreported World highlights the tragic plight of Nepal's child widows, some of whom are as young as thirteen. Many face abuse and servitude for the rest of their lives, ostracised by their families and communities, and are often forced to sell their bodies to provide food and shelter for themselves and their children.

Friday, October 30 on 4

Unreported World travels to the European Union's eastern border, to the illicit crossing points for hundreds of thousands of Afghans making their way to our shores. Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Jacob White follow migrants on the dangerous eight-mile crossing from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos, before gaining rare access to Pagani detention centre on the island. The team follows the migrants to Athens, where they witness the squalor in which they live and hear allegations of police violence against these desperate and determined people, who, it's clear, will stop at nothing for a chance to start a new life in Europe.

Friday, October 23 on 4

Unreported World travels to Guatemala City, where bus drivers are being murdered at a rate of one every other day as part of a campaign of extortion that threatens to bring the city to its knees. Extortion is the main source of income for Guatemala's criminal gangs, earning them millions of dollars a year, and the drivers are killed to instil fear as the gangs maintain their grip on the city. The two main gangs in Guatemala, Mara Salvatrucha and Gang 18, have evolved into highly organised criminal networks, which infiltrate the bus companies in order to protect their interests.

Friday, October 16 on 4

Unreported World reveals how Liberia is facing a child rape crisis. Six years after the end of a brutal civil war in which rape was routinely used as a weapon, children still face the daily fear of being attacked, and the west African country's hospitals are overwhelmed with child victims - a quarter of them under four years of age. Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Matt Haan begin their disturbing journey in the Liberian capital, Monrovia.

Friday, October 9 on 4

Unreported World travels deep into the Peruvian jungle to investigate how the government's auctioning off vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest to global oil, gas and mining corporations has led to violent clashes with thousands of indigenous tribal people. Reporter Ramita Navai and director Alex Nott examine allegations of pollution and human rights abuses, and meet a woman who believes her husband was killed by the police in a revenge attack following riots. They also interview a man who says he was shot by police and that three of his friends were killed while protesting.

Friday, September 25 on 4

Channel 4's critically acclaimed foreign affairs strand returns for a new series with a film uncovering the largely hidden, but bloody, conflict in the Russian Republic of Ingushetia. In a country to which few Western journalists have been able get access, Unreported World reveals allegations that hundreds of innocent civilians are disappearing and being tortured and murdered by the security forces in an increasingly violent campaign that threatens to turn into the next Chechnya.