BBC World Service - Assignment

Weapons of Mass Surveillance

How western high tech mass surveillance is being sold to governments in the Middle East

How Lebanese citizens are learning to clean up their own government’s stinking mess

Syria’s dream of reaching next year’s football World Cup survives.

The Kenyan women trafficked to Somalia to be sex slaves for al-Shabab

Lucy Ash asks how a ruthless street gang is affecting the immigration debate in the U.S.

Religiously and politically potent, Sri Lankan elephants are killing more and more human

Anne Soy meets the Kenyan activists helping intersex people take their place in society

Men in the Faroe Islands are having to look far beyond their shores for marriage

In a revolutionary first, one of Cuba’s cancer treatments gets a US drug trial

Lucy Ash meets the young Russians taking death-defying photos in hope of internet fame