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.

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Investigative Feature Writing

2020

Winner

In Hong Kong Crackdown, Police Repeatedly Broke Their Own Rules -- and Faced No Consequences

Author: Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin, Tiffany Liang and Ryan Ho Kilpatrick

Publication: The Washington Post

Language: English

Country: Hong Kong

Investigative Feature Writing

2020

Honorable Mention

Abortions, IUDs and Sexual Humiliation: Muslim Women Who Fled China for Kazakhstan Recount Ordeals

Author: Amie Ferris-Rotman and Joel van Houdt

Publication: The Washington Post

Language: English

Country: Kazakhstan

Investigative Feature Writing

2020

Honorable Mention

Amazon’s Troubled Asian Supply Chain

Author: Jon Emont, Alexandra Berzon, Justin Scheck and Shane Shifflett

Publication: The Wall Street Journal

Language: English

Country: Bangladesh

Explanatory Feature Writing

2020

Winner

Revisiting 612: What Happened?

Author: Leung Chun Kan, Leung Hoi Ching and Leung Tin Sum

Publication: Stand News

Language: Chinese

Country: Hong Kong

Explanatory Feature Writing

2020

Honorable Mention

Maritime Idyll of Stateless Bajau Laut: Our Border is Where Boats Could Reach

Author: Chiew Hui Yee

Publication: Initium Media

Language: Chinese

Country: Malaysia

Explanatory Feature Writing

2020

Honorable Mention

3 Barristers Cite European Cases: STS (Special Tactical Squad) Uniforms Not Showing Police Numbers Unconstitutional

Author: Ng Yuen Ying

Publication: CitizenNews

Language: Chinese

Country: Hong Kong

Explanatory Feature Writing

2020

Winner

The People of Hong Kong

Author: Natasha Khan, Wenxin Fan and John Lyons

Publication: The Wall Street Journal

Language: English

Country: Hong Kong

Explanatory Feature Writing

2020

Honorable Mention

Where 518 Inmates Sleep in Space for 170, and Gangs Hold It Together

Author: Aurora Almendral

Publication: The New York Times

Language: English

Country: Philippines

Explanatory Feature Writing

2020

Honorable Mention

Abandoned in Assam: India Creates Its Own Rohingya, and Calls Them ‘Bangladeshi’

Author: Debasish Roy Chowdhury

Publication: South China Morning Post

Language: English

Country: India