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.

Filter By:

Years

Student Writing

2021

Winner

Invisible Red Lines Threaten Publications

Author: Kelly Yu, Emilie Lui and Howard Li

Publication: Varsity, CUHK

Language: English

Country: Hong Kong

Student Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

The Dark Side: Sexual Violence on Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway (MTR)

Author: Lin Zhihuai, Kwok Hiu Ching, Wong Ting Yan and Mereen Santirad

Publication: Data Story, HKBU

Language: English

Country: Hong Kong

Student Writing

2021

Honorable Mention

Reporting on Thin Ice

Author: Reus Lok and Charlie Yip

Publication: Varsity, CUHK

Language: English

Country: Hong Kong

Short Video

2021

Winner

One Year after Hong Kong Protesters were Shot: Scars have not Healed, No One is Held Accountable

Author: Phoebe Kong Wing Yi

Publication: Deutsche Welle

Language: Chinese

Country: Hong Kong

Short Video

2021

Honorable Mention

Awakened, amid the Epidemic?

Author: Lui Lok, Nabela Qoser, Dan Tsang, Jimmy Wong Chi Ming, Roy Tsai, Cheung Leung Wah and Gillian Yau

Publication: This Week, Radio Television Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Country: Hong Kong

Short Video

2021

Honorable Mention

The (Un)seen Red Line of Publishing

Author: Chan Chi Wing

Publication: i-Cable News

Language: Chinese

Country: Hong Kong

Short Video

2021

Winner

Modi Denies India is Targeting Muslims. We Found a Different Reality.

Author: Karan Deep Singh, Emma Cott, Natalie Reneau, Suhasini Raj and Mona El-Naggar

Publication: The New York Times

Language: English

Country: India

Short Video

2021

Honorable Mention

One Year on, Families Torn Apart by Protests

Author: Joanne Wong and Wong Yin-ting Candice

Publication: Radio Television Hong Kong

Language: English

Country: Hong Kong

Short Video

2021

Honorable Mention

Hong Kong: Satire Under Siege

Author: Clément Bürge and Crystal Tai

Publication: The Wall Street Journal

Language: English

Country: Hong Kong