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Aidan Hartley
Malaysia: Reporter's Log
Wednesday 18 November 2009
In Malaysia we found ourselves filming in dark alleys, secret apartments, on the edge of rubbish dumps, in patches of jungle outside the city, and, once, in a slum constructed on stilts over the sea. Much of the documentary had to be shot under cover of darkness, even though we might be in the shadow of the twin Petronas Towers in downtown Kuala Lumpur. One midnight, when we had nowhere to film on the edge of a busy highway, a kind Sikh priest took pity on us and invited us into his empty temple to interview a group of men. More
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Nepal: Further Information
Tuesday 17 November 2009
Contact details for organisations that help the Nepalese widows, and an update on some of the work being done.
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Yemi Ipaye
Nepal: Reporter's Log
Monday 09 November 2009
I found it strange that widows in Nepal had been singled out for persecution and discrimination by their families and communities. After all, they’d lost their husbands through no fault of their own, but yet there was said to be a deep seated suspicion of widows as they were regarded as ‘bad omens’. We’d heard that widows, some whom were still children, were treated as social pariahs. Although previously they were expected to shave their heads, today they still had to follow restrictive mourning rituals, and accept their fate as outcasts.
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Ramita Navai
South Sudan: Reporter's Log
Thursday 05 November 2009
We had travelled to South Sudan to investigate an upsurge in fighting. More people have been killed there this year than in the country's notorious war-torn region of Darfur.
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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.
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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.
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