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| Hundreds of prisoners in Zimbabwe are dying from malnutrition and disease |
As the world waits for the Zimbabwean power-sharing government to emerge from under the shadow of Robert Mugabe, the president, the people of that troubled country continue to suffer.
In April, People & Power showed you how a cholera crisis was ravaging ordinary Zimbabweans.
Now reporters Johann Abrahams and Godknows Nare, have penetrated an even more forgotten sector of Zimbabwean society - its prison system.
Filming secretly, they have uncovered scenes of starvation and neglect reminiscent of Second World War death camps.
We have removed identifying date and time readings from this report, which contains some disturbing images.
Cauca: The promised land
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| Control over land is central to the on-going conflict in Colombia |
Also in the latest People & Power, we look at a violent confrontation over possession of land in Cauca.
Colombia has one of the most unequal distributions of land in the world where around one per cent of landowners control 61 per cent of the whole countryside.
Indigenous communities, which cultivate small holdings of poor quality, are determined to secure land they believe was stolen from them by large landowners, many the descendants of colonial families.
In the Cauca region of southern Colombia, these claims have blown up into a bitter dispute, involving indigenous communities, landowners, and the government.
The administration of Alvaro Uribe, the Colombian president, claims it is fulfilling promises it made to purchase land for indigenous groups.
But indigenous leaders say it is too little too late, so they have taken matters into their own hands.
This episode of People & Power airs from Wednesday, July 01, 2009 at the following times GMT: Wednesday: 0600, 1230; Thursday: 0130, 1400, 1930; Friday: 0630, 1630; Saturday: 0330, 2030; Sunday: 0030, 0530; Monday: 0830.
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