GOIÂNIA RADIATION ACCIDENT: 20 YEARS LATER (2’52”) (No. 1127)

NIGER DROUGHT (1'54”)
(No. 1125)

A programme sponsored by the World Bank is encouraging sustainable forest management in Africa’s Congo River basin. Native Mbendjele Pygmies are using global positioning system devices to protect from logging areas that are vital to their survival.
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Farmers in Niger are suffering from longer drought periods due to climate change. The World Bank warns that new farming methods are crucial. Governments and farmers must be able to adapt in order to ensure survival in this arid region.
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CROSSING THE DIVIDE (5'05”)
(No. 1124)

NEPAL:  LOCAL CUSTOM DISCRIMINATES AGAINST WOMEN (2’28”)
(No. 1123)

Africa's Sahara, home to some of the world's most beautiful landscapes, is also home to the continent's oldest running territorial conflict. For over thirty years this dispute has left tens of thousands of Western Sahara refugees in camps that straddle its border. For decades, families have been divided. But now, there's a very special programme that reunites them..
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In western Nepal, thousands of women suffer health problems and risk dying because of the inhuman practice of ‘chaupadi’. This local custom prohibits women from entering the home at night during their menstrual cycle because they are considered impure and may bring bad luck to the family.  Women and girls are banished to a small, unheated, outdoor shed - sometimes for five days at a time. But now, women are fighting back and defying this rule..
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