"Murder at Sea" Hundreds of undocumented Burmese fishermen have been abandoned or jumped ship on the remote Indonesian island of Tual off the coast of Papua New Guinea. The seafarers have escaped poverty and oppression in their military-ruled homeland, brutal working conditions in the Thai fishing fleet and murder on the high seas but they are now forgotten by the world. Commissioned as a stand-alone documentary by Al Jazeera International. View on YouTube.com: Part 1, Part 2

"The Assassination of Pedro Zamora", filmed in 2007, is an investigation into the brutal murder of a leading Guatemalan dockers trade union leader. Zamora, at the centre of a labour dispute in the Pacific port of Puerto Quetzal, was ambushed by a government-sponsored death-squad and riddled with bullets. In the face of judicial impunity, his family and union colleagues are fighting for justice. Screened at the Milano Film Festival.

"Highway of Hope", explores the scourge of HIV/AIDS amongst truck drivers, other transport workers and female sex workers along East Africa's notorious Northern Transport corridor from the Ugandan capital Kampala to the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa. Co-produced with the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) as a campaigning and educational video, 'Highway' was commercially broadcast by Dutch TV's prestigious Netverk current affairs programme and screened at the Cordoba Human Rights Film Festival.

"Hanging by a Thread", made in 2005, is a damning indictment of unfettered globalisation and its devastating impact on the fragile emerging garments industries in Africa and South Asia. Selected for Human Rights Film Festivals in Germany and Spain.

"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", an undercover report on the plight of undocumented migrants in southern Spain and their desperate attempts to cross the mediterranean from North Africa.

"Bombay Buskers", released in 2003, looks at the lives of eight-year-old Nagarjuna and other young itinerant musicians who work on Bombay's vast railway system. A story of remarkable survival in India's city of dreams. "Bombay Buskers" has been broadcast by Danish DR2 television, RTE Eire and YLE Finland. Shortlisted for the Silver Dhow Documentary Film Award at the Zanzibar International Film Festival, it has also been screened at the RomaDoc Film Festival in Italy and Switzerland's North-South Film Festival in Geneva. Please click here for further information.

"Angels with Dirty Faces", co-produced in 1997 with international trade unions and NGO's, revealed the plight of South Asia's 80 million child workers -- and told a story of slavery, stolen childhood and cheap goods for western consumers. "Angels" has been broadcast in some 15 countries, among them the USA, France, Germany, Denmark, Finland and Norway; Spain, Portugal, Eire and Israel.

"Colombia: Getting away with Murder", a 1994 co-production with Amnesty International, exposed the widespread abuse of human rights in the South American nation by government-sponsored death squads and revealed the horrors of "social cleansing", judicial murders and "disappearances".

Our television news and current affairs output has also featured special reports on Child Soldiers in Liberia, the HIV/AIDS pandemic in India and exclusive footage shot inside the brutal prisons of Venezuela.

In 1996, and again in 1998, Parachute scored a world exclusive when we proved conclusively that children, some as young as five-years-old, were making footballs for the European and World Cup soccer championships.

In more detail, here is a list of special reports:

Parachute's most recent reports have included stories on child labour in Malawi's Tobacco industry; an undercover investigation of the sex trade and Western paedophiles in The Philippines; exploitation of female workers in Mexico's border assembly plants -- and a short documentary on workers in India's ship-breaking and coal-mining industries.