Asia’s most prestigious awards honouring outstanding human rights reporting will be open for entries from 1 January 2019 to 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 23nd 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
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.
The winners were announced at a ceremony in Hong Kong on May 12, 2018.
2018 Winners
Chong Hiu Tung
CitizenNews
Josh Chin, Clément Bürge and Giulia Marchi
Wall Street Journal
Lam Sum Yi, Hui Lee Ha, Chan Tsz Ki and Liu Dicksa Isabelle
U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
Annie Zhang
Initium Media
Sam Jahan, Nick Perry, Redwan Ahmed and Claire Cozens
AFP
Kim Chan Ping Ting
The News Lens
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Lam Hon Shan
RTHK
Cheng Sze Sze
Hong Kong Connection, RTHK
Alvin Lum
CitizenNews
LEE Tsz Ying and Lau Tsz Lam
Broadcast News Network, HKBU
Patrick Winn and Muktadir Rashid of Public Radio International
Public Radio International
Michael Peel
Financial Times
Danielle Wang, Victoria Jin and Xu Xiaotong
Initium Media
Emily Chan Miu Ling
RTHK
Choi Chin Hung, Kris, Chiu Chun Ting and Diana Lin
Television Broadcasts Limited
Chan On Ki, Lam Oi Yee, Leung Yuk Man, Mak Tsun Ho and Mok Wing Tung
U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
Jonah Fisher
BBC News
Mok Wing Tung and Lui Wing Yiu
U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
Oliver Slow and Thomas Kean
Frontier Myanmar
Fred Dufour
AFP
Megha Rajagopalan
BuzzFeed News
He Ji Shu, Ko Chung Lai and Lo Wai Ting
U-Beat Magazine, CUHK
Ben Bland, Jamil Anderlini, Gloria Cheung and Lucy Hornby
Financial Times
Annie Gowen
The Washington Post
Cheng Tsz Yu
Ming Pao Weekly
Fiona Chan, Angela Siu, Kristy Tong, Doris Yu, Crystal Wu, Elaine Ng, Marilyn Ma, Grace Liyang and Chloe Kwan
Varsity, CUHK
Chien Yung Ta
The Reporter
Julia Wallace
The Nation
Organizers
