We are delighted to announce that The Human Rights Press Awards, Asia’s most prestigious honours that recognise outstanding human rights reporting, have returned for the 23rd year and are now open for entries. The deadline is 12 February 2019.
The Human Rights Press Awards recognise top rights-related reporting from around Asia, with the goal of increasing respect for people’s basic rights and focusing attention on threats to those freedoms.
The awards, which are now in their 23rd year, are organised by The Foreign Correspondents’ Club Hong Kong, Amnesty International and the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
The 2019 awards, for work published or broadcast in the 2018 calendar year, will be open for entries from Jan 1, 2019.
How to enter
The 23rd Human Rights Press Awards are open for entry from 1 January to 12 February
Asia’s most prestigious awards honouring outstanding human rights reporting will be open for entries from 1 January 2019 to 12 February 2019.
The 22nd Human Rights Press Awards took place in Hong Kong on May 12, 2018. See our gallery of photographs from the event at the Foreign Correspondents' Club. Photos by Jayne Russell.
2018 Winners
Chan On Ki, Lam Oi Yee, Leung Yuk Man, Mak Tsun Ho and Mok Wing Tung
U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
LEE Tsz Ying and Lau Tsz Lam
Broadcast News Network, HKBU
Lam Sum Yi, Hui Lee Ha, Chan Tsz Ki and Liu Dicksa Isabelle
U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
Fiona Chan, Angela Siu, Kristy Tong, Doris Yu, Crystal Wu, Elaine Ng, Marilyn Ma, Grace Liyang and Chloe Kwan
Varsity, CUHK
Mok Wing Tung and Lui Wing Yiu
U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
Chong Hiu Tung
CitizenNews
He Ji Shu, Ko Chung Lai and Lo Wai Ting
U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
Fred Dufour
AFP
Lam Hon Shan
RTHK
Emily Chan Miu Ling
RTHK
Cheng Sze Sze
Hong Kong Connection, RTHK
Choi Chin Hung, Kris, Chiu Chun Ting and Diana Lin
Television Broadcasts Limited
Danielle Wang, Victoria Jin and Xu Xiaotong
Initium Media
Alvin Lum
CitizenNews
Chinghua Tsai
Opinions@CommonWealth
Chien Yung Ta
The Reporter
Kim Chan Ping Ting
The News Lens
Cheng Tsz Yu
Ming Pao Weekly
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Annie Zhang
Initium Media
Jonah Fisher
BBC News
Aurora Almendral and Ed Ou
NBC Left Field
Karl Malakunas
AFP
Josh Chin, Clément Bürge and Giulia Marchi
Wall Street Journal
Michael Peel
Financial Times
Oliver Slow and Thomas Kean
Frontier Myanmar
Julia Wallace
The Nation
Patrick Winn and Muktadir Rashid
Public Radio International
Megha Rajagopalan
BuzzFeed News
Ben Bland, Jamil Anderlini, Gloria Cheung and Lucy Hornby
Financial Times
Sam Jahan, Nick Perry, Redwan Ahmed and Claire Cozens
AFP
Organizers
