Dateline looks at how the poor in India have been sidelined for the Commonwealth Games , Uganda’s plans to introduce the death penalty for gays and lesbians plus a story on the Brazilian modelling scene.

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 video journalist Yalda Hakim discovers a different story.

Advocates for India’s poor claim the money being spent on building and staging the Games is being taken away from programs designed to helping the poverty-stricken. What’s more, 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 the athletes, which will eventually sell for up to one million dollars each.

Yalda meets the Dharavi slum workers who are earning money from the Games now, but losing out overall.

GAYS ABANDONED

Also on Dateline, plans to introduce the death penalty for gays and lesbians in Uganda are causing an international outcry. The new laws under consideration even include punishment for anyone who doesn’t report gays to the authorities.

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.

FLAWED BEAUTY:

And finally on Dateline, Brazil has one of the largest black populations in the world, yet only 2% of the nation’s catwalk models are black, and that’s said to be alienating much of the country.

One of the most famous faces of Brazilian modelling is the light-skinned Gisele Bundchen, who earnt around $US25 million last year,  and some in Brazil believe that she’s been so successful partly because of the notion that white people have more money to spend, therefore they want to see white faces on the catwalk.

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 Brazil’s biggest fashion shows.

But will the talent scouts and fashion world take any notice?

It airs 8:30pm Sunday on SBS ONE.