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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Explanatory Feature Writing

2023
Honorable Mention

香港無家者告政府:有命就有錢,但我們要的是公道

Author: 陳倩兒, 陳欣其
Publication: 報導者
Language: Chinese
Country: Taiwan

Explanatory Feature Writing

2023
Winner

Asia’s scamdemic: How COVID-19 supercharged online crime

Author: Dominic Faulder
Publication: Nikkei Asia
Language: English
Country: Thailand

Explanatory Feature Writing

2023
Honorable Mention

China's crackdown on human rights lawyers

Author: David Lague
Publication: Reuters
Language: English
Country: China

Photography (Single image)

2023
Winner

A Year of Loss for Afghan Women – Photo series by Kiana Hayeri

Author: Kiana Hayeri
Publication: New York Times
Country: Afghanistan

Photography (Single image)

2023
Honorable Mention

Rolling up Asia's World City

Author: Britt Clennett
Publication: Hong Kong Free Press
Country: Hong Kong

Photography (Series)

2023
Winner

A Year of Loss for Afghan Women – Photo series by Kiana Hayeri

Author: Kiana Hayeri
Publication: New York Times
Country: Afghanistan

Photography (Series)

2023
Honorable Mention

Sri Lanka's Unprecedented Crisis

Author: Ishara S. Kodikara
Publication: Agence France-Presse
Country: Sri Lanka

Short Video

2023
Winner

反「清零」抗議潮:美國的中國留學生如何用行動聲援?

Author: Lok Lee
Publication: BBC News 中文
Language: Chinese
Country: United States

Short Video

2023
Honorable Mention

把微型相機放進嘴裡的中國藝術家:「我會記錄這個時代,一直到疫情結束」Covid: The Chinese artist filming PCR tests inside his mouth

Author: Wei Wang
Publication: BBC News 中文
Language: Chinese
Country: Hong Kong