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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Multimedia

2021
Honorable Mention

Land Defenders are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining

Author: Natashya Gutierrez, Natasha Grzincic, Anya Zoledziowski and Laurent Laughlin
Publication: VICE World News
Language: English
Country: Philippines

Multimedia

2021
Honorable Mention

Black Gold: How Global Demand for Hair Products is Linked to Forced Labor in Xinjiang

Author: Rebecca Wright, Ivan Watson, Isaac Yee, Steve George, Victoria Eastwood, Dinara Saliyeva, Ashley Killough, Arslan Khakiyev, Jake Kwon, Samarjan Saidi, Ben Westcott, Philip Wang, Jason Kwok and Marco Chacon
Publication: CNN International
Language: English
Country: China

Audio

2021
Winner

Vatican to Renew Deal with China Series

Author: Loi Hei Amelia
Publication: Radio Free Asia
Language: Chinese
Country: China

Audio

2021
Honorable Mention

The Voice of the Unreunited 709 Families

Author: Chan Miu Ling Emily
Publication: Radio Television Hong Kong
Language: Chinese
Country: Hong Kong

Audio

2021
Honorable Mention

Controversy over Chinese Language Education in Inner Mongolia

Author: Chau Chi Wing
Publication: Radio Television Hong Kong
Language: Chinese
Country: China

Audio

2021
Honorable Mention

Tokhang sa Tokhang: Inside the Communities Hit by Duterte’s War on Drugs

Author: Jose Roberto Alampay, Patricia Aquino, Marcelo Casillan IV, Maria Katrina Ventura and Carljoe Javier
Publication: PumaPodcast
Language: English
Country: Philippines

Audio

2021
Winner

China's Growing Intolerance

Author: Emily Feng
Publication: National Public Radio
Language: English
Country: China

Student Video & Audio

2021
Winner

Reporters were Treated Like Executions When They Conduct Interview in Mong Kok

Author: Alex Chan Tsz Yuk
Publication: DB Channel and Nihon Bunka Channeru Sakura
Language: Chinese
Country: Hong Kong

Student Video & Audio

2021
Honorable Mention

Missing Father

Author: Tang Tsz Him Thomas and Yanni Chow Yat
Publication: Broadcast News Network, HKBU
Language: Chinese
Country: Hong Kong