Unreported World

Jenny Kleeman

Greece: Reporter's Log

Friday 30 October 2009

Following the journey migrants take as they try to smuggle themselves into Europe poses a unique set of challenges. First, you need to find the migrants. This isn’t a simple task, as my director Jacob Waite and I soon discovered. Although hundreds of thousands enter the EU from the east via Turkey every year, these are people who have dedicated themselves to being invisible. They are breaking the law and risking their lives to slip unseen across borders.

Seyi Rhodes

Guatemala: Reporter's Log

Friday 23 October 2009

Driving from the airport to my hotel, the roadside billboards alternated between adverts for fast food chains and adverts for weight loss products. It seemed odd, but in many ways it’s symptomatic of the way Guatemala works. Problems get papered over with well-intentioned solutions, while the underlying issues are barely acknowledged.

Liberia: Further Information

Monday 19 October 2009

Learn more about the plight of children in Liberia, and find out how you can help.

Jenny Kleeman

Liberia: Reporter's Log

Wednesday 14 October 2009

Before we arrived in Liberia we’d heard that child rape was happening on a massive and uncontrollable scale – but no one could tell us how many Liberian children become victims each year. In a war-torn country with no mains electricity, no running water and 85% unemployment, the authorities have more immediate concerns than gathering accurate statistics.

Ramita Navai

Peru: Reporter's Log

Friday 09 October 2009

As we travelled along the River Corrientes, cutting deep through the thick, green Peruvian Amazon, the only company we had was from the hidden animals whose shrieks pierced the jungle, and the occasional indigenous Indian in a canoe.