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

2021

Honorable Mention

Why The Philippines Has So Many Teen Moms

Author: Aurora Almendral

Publication: NPR News

Language: English

Country: Philippines

Commentary Writing

2021

Winner

The Truth isn’t Dead, You Just Don’t Believe it Anymore

Author: Jieping Zhang

Publication: Wainao | WhyNot

Language: Chinese

Country: China

Commentary Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

For an Unfinished Revolution

Author: Rwei-Ren Wu

Publication: The Reporter

Language: Chinese

Country: Hong Kong

Commentary Writing

2021

Winner

Coronavirus Lockdown: If India Treats Its Migrant Workers Like Dirt, Blame It on Caste

Author: Debasish Roy Chowdhury

Publication: South China Morning Post

Language: English

Country: India

Commentary Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

People in Parts of Myanmar Are Living Under the World's Longest Internet Shutdown. It's Putting Lives in Danger

Author: Kyaw Hsan Hlaing and Emily Fishbein

Publication: TIME

Language: English

Country: Myanmar

Commentary Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

With National Security Law, Hong Kong has Fallen Victim to the Tyranny of the Rule of Law; Beijing’s Call for Judicial Reform Spells the End of the Hong Kong System; Time for Hongkongers Eligible for BN(O) Visa Scheme to Choose Where Their Loyalties Lie

Author: Phil C.W. Chan

Publication: South China Morning Post

Language: English

Country: Hong Kong

Student Writing

2021

Winner

Innocent Defendants were Sent to Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre, which Caused an Unquenchable Shadow on Detainees

Author: Cheng Tsz Fung and Fung Tsz Yan

Publication: U-Beat Magazine, CUHK

Language: Chinese

Country: China

Student Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

Purple Edge of the Rainbow after Storm - Interview Yuli Riswati

Author: Cheung Hiu Ching and Hongshi Raissa Sarah

Publication: U-Beat Magazine, CUHK

Language: Chinese

Country: Hong Kong

Student Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

"I am not Hon Po Sang" the Aftermath of 831 Incident

Author: Wu Gin

Publication: DB Channel

Language: Chinese

Country: Hong Kong