HUMAN RIGHTS PRESS AWARDS

Past Award Winners

The goal of the Awards is to increase respect for people’s basic rights and to focus attention on threats to those freedoms. We also aim to recognise and encourage excellent, investigative and original reporting on important issues in the mass media.

*Please note that this page is currently being updated with past winners weekly. This message will be removed when all past entrants are available. We thank you for your patience.

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Breaking News Writing

2023
Winner

The Defiant Women of Afghanistan

Author: Aysha Safi, Jay Deshmukh and Emma Clark
Publication: Agence France-Presse
Language: English
Country: Afghanistan

Breaking News Writing

2023
Honorable Mention

Myanmar's executed activists: Phyo Zeya Thaw and Ko Jimmy

Author: Burmese Service and Grace Tsoi
Publication: BBC Burmese
Language: English
Country: Myanmar

Breaking News Writing

2023
Winner

香港新冠爆疫公院淪陷系列

Author: Bi Jiamin, Chan Yau Nga, Wong Sum Yuet, Lee Ming Yau, Ho Pui Wu, Sin Wan Kei
Publication: 明報
Language: Chinese
Country: Hong Kong

Breaking News Writing

2023
Honorable Mention

烏俄戰爭與台灣系列報導:台籍志願軍、救援者,以及自力更生的難民女性 The Ukraine War and Taiwan: Taiwanese Volunteer Solider, Rescuer and the Self-Relient Female Refugees

Author: 陳虹瑾 蘇立坤 簡竹書 陳昌遠 曾芷筠 王志元 李振豪 蔣宜婷 尹俞歡 王思涵
Publication: 台灣鏡週刊
Language: Chinese
Country: Ukraine

Investigative Feature Writing

2023
Winner

綁債.黑工.留學陷阱:失控的高教技職國際招生

Author: 李雪莉, 楊智強, 嚴文廷, 何柏均, 楊子磊, 柳廣成, 洪琴宣
Publication: 報導者
Language: Chinese
Country: Taiwan

Investigative Feature Writing

2023
Honorable Mention

青春煉獄:網路獵騙性私密影像事件簿

Publication: 鏡週刊
Language: Chinese
Country: Taiwan

Investigative Feature Writing

2023
Winner

Myanmar military abuses against the Rohingya and democracy activists

Author: Poppy McPherson and Wa Lone
Publication: Reuters
Language: English
Country: Myanmar

Investigative Feature Writing

2023
Honorable Mention

An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future

Author: Paul Mozur, Muyi Xiao and John Liu
Publication: New York Times
Language: English
Country: China

Explanatory Feature Writing

2023
Winner

崩塌都市——工業意外與工傷者們

Author: Ng Sai Ning and Tan Chi Wing
Publication: 明報周刊
Language: Chinese
Country: Hong Kong