By Matt Ferrero

Teach a man to fish and you can feed him for a lifetime. Teach him to plant and
irrigate a high yield garden and you can feed his whole community,...

By Matt Ferrero

See it, Film it, Change it is the mantra that WITNESS was founded on and this week in New York, testimony and video from the Zimbabwe survivors will be made public for us all to see. Going one step further, the evidence will be presented to...

By Matt Ferrero,

Our social innovator this week comes with a remarkable personal story. As a youth, Anthony Mulongo was selected by the Kenyan Government as one of the country's 18 brightest students. He was...

Imagine you and your family in Kenya's Kakuma camp, along with seventy thousand refugees. Dust storms darken the sky and dry out your skin and the few scraps of food that aren't sealed away. You...

On October 22, RUTV will launch a new online mini-series, Underdogs and Social Innovators -- global tales of the disenfranchised, the downtrodden and the silent heroes who battle the odds to overcome all.

What do solar energy, human trafficking and potable water have in common? These are...

By Matt Ferrero

Starting this week, Reporters Uncensored TV will be launching a new series on social innovators. We will be bringing to your attention the people and organizations that are right now making the...

By Matt Ferrero

At the United Nations press conference last week, Hugo Chavez was asked to defend his decision to suspend the broadcast license of Radio Caracas Television. The accusation, he reported, was a boldfaced lie.

A lie reported by media like TVes -- the Venezuelan government's own public...

by Matt Ferrero

RUTV is on location at the U.N. General Assembly and at the Clinton Global Initiative this week and things are off to a good start. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama joined President Bill Clinton to open the Fifth Annual CGI Meeting, bringing together world leaders from the...

By Zach Schubert

As it approached the ten-year anniversary of its 1998 financial crisis, Russia's economy seemed to be thawing faster than the Bering Strait. Suddenly, thawing turned into melting when the 2008 market breakdown precipitated a recession that continues to outpace the global economic crisis. The effects of that...

--Zach Schubert

The UN calls the Democratic Republic of the Congo the new rape capital of the world. By their estimate, 35,000 women have been raped there since January. As ethnic militias continue to fight...

--Zach Schubert

Last month, Mexican lawmakers quietly slipped a bill into the books that will legalize small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroine and even methamphetamines. This change of formation is the latest in a drug...

Reporters Uncensored (RUTV) : Behind the Global Web series

-- Zach Schubert

While the world was watching the election battle in Iran, unspeakable things were happening behind many doors in towns and cities across the country. The election got out attention and Iran's impassioned citizens kept it. Now...

This week RUTV looks at world racism and the growing popularity of far-right national parties in politics. Whether you are the "hater" or the "hated," having a common enemy quickly unites people who...

Reporters Uncensored (RUTV)
Behind the Global Web series

-- Tala Dowlatshahi (Creator and United States Correspondent)

We are a month into the show. Iranian-Americans like me have spent the last several...

By Tove Iren Spissøy Gerhardsen, Reporters Uncensored (RUTV) European Correspondent

From my office in an old, royal-looking building smack in the middle of Copenhagen, I see women riding their city bikes with straight backs...

Reporters Uncensored is anchored by journalist and senior advisor to Reporters without Borders, Tala Dowlatshahi and features a team of independent local reporters from around the world. This week, Tala writes about new technologies, civil...

By Maura Kelly

On July 15, Reporters Uncensored (RUTV) will launch its first season of thought-provoking, international news and analysis of leading social entrepreneurs LIVE on the Web. RUTV is anchored by journalist...