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Title Dateline: Poverty Games/Flawed Beauty/Gays Abandoned
Published Australia : SBS ONE, 2010
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Summary POVERTY GAMESAs India prepares a show of wealth at the Commonwealth Games, Dateline reports on the poor who say they're missing out in the race for riches.India is preparing to welcome the world to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, but behind the show of wealth, at what's being dubbed the most expensive games in history, Dateline's Yalda Hakim discovers a different story.Thousands of slums have been demolished and the residents moved to outside the city, while the poor earn a few cents a day building luxurious apartments for competitors, which will eventually sell for up to a million dollars.Out in the slums of Mumbai, Yalda finds children as young as five combing polluted rivers and dirty alleyways for junk they can sell to survive, amid claims that money has been diverted away from schemes to fight poverty to pay for the games.FLAWED BEAUTYBrazil has one of the largest black populations in the world, yet only 2% of the nation's catwalk models are black, and it's said to be alienating much of the country.One of the most famous faces of Brazilian modelling is Gisele Buendchen, who earnt around $US25 million last year, and it's the perceived extra wealth of white consumers that's seen as the driving force behind the divide.Video journalist Giovana Vitola meets some of the models, whose hopes of fame and fortune have been dashed, and the attorney behind a new agreement to increase the quota of black models to 10% at the biggest fashion shows.But will the talent scouts and fashion world take any notice?GAYS ABANDONEDPlans to introduce the death penalty for gays and lesbians in Uganda are causing an international outcry. The new laws currently being considered even include punishment for anyone who doesn't report gay people to the authorities. US President Obama has called the legislation 'odious' and many other leaders and human rights groups have condemned the bill. Some governments are even threatening diplomatic sanctions against Uganda. Those behind the new laws see homosexuality as an abomination against their religion and believe a Western 'homosexual juggernaut' is threatening Uganda. They say they want to 'cure' gays and lesbians and get rid of all homosexual influence in the country. One lawyer opposing the plans tells video journalist Aaron Lewis that even murderers are treated with higher regard than gays and lesbians.Aaron meets those opposing the laws in constant fear for their safety, and hears the extreme views of the government officials and church leaders trying to silence them.International current affairs hosted by George Negus. (An SBS Production) CC WS
Notes Closed captioning in English
Event Broadcast 2010-09-05 at 20:30:00
Notes Classification: NC
Subject Commonwealth Games.
Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Homosexuality -- Law and legislation.
Hosting of sporting events.
Models (Persons)
Population -- Evaluation.
Brazil.
India -- New Delhi.
Uganda.
Form Streaming video
Author Allonso, Deborah Kelly, contributor
Almeida, Fernando, contributor
Bahati, David, contributor
Buranello, Caroline, contributor
Buturo, James, contributor
Dias, Helder, contributor
Hakim, Yalda, reporter
Kalmadi, Suresh, contributor
Lewis, Aaron, reporter
Male, Moses, contributor
Mugisha, Frank, contributor
Mugisha, Sheila, contributor
Nduala, Stanley, contributor
Negus, George, host
Obama, Barack, contributor
Rakafuzi, Lad, contributor
Santos, Davi, contributor
Shetty, Vinod, contributor
Sonjogo, Alawe, contributor
Stein, Dilson, contributor
Vitola, Giovana, reporter