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This is a list of the winners of the Amnesty International UK Media Awards for each year since 2002. These awards are given by the UK section of Amnesty International to journalists who have made a significant contribution to the UK public's greater awareness and understanding of human rights issues.
Gegründet | July 1961 by Peter Benenson in Britain |
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Typ | Non-profit NGO |
Standort |
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Services | Protecting human rights |
Fields | Media attention, direct-appeal campaigns, research, lobbying |
Mitglieder | More than 3 million members and supporters[1] |
Key people | Salil Shetty (Secretary-General) |
Website | www |
Remarks | It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.[2] |
Earlier recipients of the Special Award for Human Rights Journalism under Threat included Ignacio Gomez of Colombia, special investigations editor of the newspaper El Espectador and director of the Colombian Press Freedom Foundation, who won the award in 2000; Najam Sethi of Pakistan, editor of the national newspaper, The Friday Times; and editor Nosa Igiebor and the staff of Nigeria's Tell Magazine.[3]
Award winners
editKategorie | Titel | Journalist | Organisation |
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2002 | |||
National newspaper | 10-year-old Qwadrat takes his final painful breath | Anton Antonowicz | Daily Mirror |
Periodical | The school of assassins that the US army has tried to hide | Christine Toomey | The Sunday Times Magazine |
Photojournalism | War crimes in Kosovo | Gary Knight | Newsweek International |
Radio | Crossing Continents - Israel/Palestine | Lucy Ash | BBC Radio 4 |
Television documentary | Kids behind bars | Kate Blewett / Brian Woods | True Vision Productions for the BBC |
Television news | Slobodan Milosevic War Crimes Trial | Gaby Rado | ITN / Channel 4 News |
2003 | |||
National newspaper | Inside the world of the Palestinian suicide bomber; The informer who could not escape; On patrol with the killer Israel dreads | Tallat Hussain | Dawn News |
Periodical | Land of the damned | Ann McFerran | The Sunday Times Magazine |
Photojournalism | Looking Aids in the face | Gideon Mendel | Corbis / Guardian Weekend |
Radio | Today - Sale of illegal landmines | Andrew Gilligan | BBC Radio 4 |
Television documentary | Panorama - A licence to murder | John Ware | BBC |
Television news | Guinea: sex for food | Sorious Samura | Insight News Television / Channel 4 News / CNN |
Global human rights journalism | Invisible casualties of war | Belma Becirbasic / Dzenana Secic | Start magazine, Bosnia-Herzegovina |
Human rights journalism under threat | Hassan Bility | Analyst newspaper, Liberia | |
Regional media | Series of articles on refugees and asylum seekers | Alexander Robertson / Sam Bartlett / Liam McDougall | The Big Issue, Scotland |
2004 | |||
National newspaper | The People The Law Forgot | Tallat Hussain | Dawn News |
Periodical | The Bitterest Betrayal | Vikram Dodd / Tania Branigan | Guardian Weekend Magazine |
Photojournalism | Ghosts of the Apocalypse | Philip Blenkinsop | The Sunday Times Magazine |
Radio | Crossing Continents - India | Lucy Ash | BBC Radio 4 |
Television documentary | This World - Access To Evil | Olenka Frenkiel | BBC |
Television news | Äquatorial-Guinea | Lindsey Hilsum | Channel 4 News |
Global human rights journalism | Slaves of the 21st Century | Raphael Gomide | O Dia, Brazil |
Human rights journalism under threat | Kifle Mulat | Lissane Hizeb (Voice of the People), Ethiopia | |
Regional media | Asylum Seeking Children | Lorna Martin | The Herald, Scotland |
Gaby Rado award | Reports from Democratic Republic of Congo | James Astill | The Guardian / The Observer / Newsnight |
2005 | |||
National newspaper | London - the world in one city | Leo Benedictus | The Guardian |
Periodical | America's Gulag | Stephen Grey | New Statesman |
Photojournalism | Flames of Desperation | Nicola Kurtz | The Sunday Times Magazine |
Radio | Bhopal | Susan Roberts | BBC Radio 4 |
Television documentary | Panorama - The New Killing Fields | Darren Kemp / Hilary Andersson | BBC |
Television news | Falluja Forensics | Tara Sutton | Channel 4 News Independents' Fund / Guardian Films |
Human rights journalism under threat | Marielos Monzón | Guatemala | |
Regional media | Fascism in Russia | Billy Briggs | The Herald Magazine on Saturday, Scotland |
Gaby Rado award | Ali A Fadhil | Channel 4 News Independents' Fund / Guardian Films | |
2006 | |||
National newspaper | Iraq special report | Peter Beaumont | The Observer |
Periodical | Beasts of prey | Christine Toomey | The Sunday Times Magazine |
Photojournalism | Rwanda - facing the virus | Stuart Freedman | Positive Lives / Panos |
Radio | Reports from rural China | Rupert Wingfield Hayes / Alistair Burnett | BBC Radio 4 |
Television documentary | Asylum | Amanda Richardson / Peter Gordon / Edwina Vardey / Nicola Clemens | BBC |
Television news | Conflict - tin: Congo's tin soldiers | Elizabeth C Jones / Jonathan Miller / Mike Radford | Channel 4 News / ITN |
Human rights journalism under threat | Stanislav Dmitrievskiy / Oksana Chelysheva | Russland | |
Regional media | Tales from the edge, the Glasgow girls | Lindsey Hill / Simon Parsons / Rhiannon Brady / Emma Green McInnes | BBC Scotland |
Gaby Rado award | Human rights in the Former Soviet Union | Nick Paton Walsh | The Guardian |
2007 | |||
National newspaper | Congo's Tragedy | Johann Hari | The Independent |
Periodical | The Big Steal | Jonathan Watts | Guardian Weekend Magazine |
Photojournalism | Acid attacks in Bangladesh | Andrew Testa | Foto 8 Magazine |
Radio | Dispatches from Gaza | Alan Johnston | BBC News Gaza Bureau |
Television documentary | Execution of a Teenage Girl | Paul Hamann / Monica Garnsey / Lucy Hetherington | BBC / Wild Pictures |
Television news | China Organ Transplants | Rupert Wingfield-Hayes / Bessie Du / Al Go | BBC Ten O'Clock News |
Human rights journalism under threat | Dina Meza | Revistazo, Honduras | |
Regional media | Haunted | Lucy Adams | The Herald Magazine, Scotland |
Gaby Rado award | Tea and Kidnapping; You go a bit crazy when you see little body after little body coming up out of the ground; The Jihad now is against the Shias not the Americans | Ghaith Abdul-Ahad | The Guardian |
2008 | |||
National newspaper | Iraqi interpreters series | Deborah Haynes | The Times |
Periodical | Newspaper supplement: Selling soccer into slavery |
Jonathan Green | Live (Mail on Sunday magazine) |
Consumer magazine: Russian media freedom |
Fatima Tlisova / Sergei Bachinin / Alexei Simonov | Index on Censorship | |
Photojournalism | Congo unrest | Cédric Gerbehaye | Newsweek / Agence Vu |
Radio | Today - Where there's muck: Mike Thomson in the Congo | Pascale Harter / Ceri Thomas / Mike Thompson | BBC Radio 4 |
Television documentary | Storyville - The Devil Came on Horseback | Gretchen Steidle Wallace / Jane Wells / Annie Sundberg / Ricki Stern / Nick Fraser / Brian Steidle | BBC Four / Break Thru Films / Global Grassroots |
Television news | Too young to die - Children of the frontline | Chris Rogers / Deborah Turness / Tony Hemmings | ITV News / ITN |
Human rights journalism under threat | Abdel Karim al-Khaiwani | Al-Shora, Yemen | |
Regional media | Congo to Motherwell | Fiona Walker / Dorothy Parker / Matt Pinder / Hilary McCusker-Thompson | BBC Scotland |
Gaby Rado award | Africa's secret - the men, women and children 'vanished' in the war on terror | Xan Rice | The Guardian |
International television and radio | The lost tribe - Secret army of the CIA | Eunice Lau / Stephanie Scawen / Tricia Tan / Tony Birtley | Al Jazeera English |
New media | "Honour killing" sparks fears of new Iraqi conflict | Sahar Al-Haideri | Institute for War and Peace Reporting |
2009 | |||
Gaby Rado memorial award | Aleem Maqbool | BBC News | |
International Television & Radio | World's Untold Stories: The Forgotten People | Dan Rivers, Kit Swartz, Sheri England, Anthony Whaley | CNN |
Nations & Regions | The Fight for Justice | Lucy Adams | The Herald Magazine |
National Newspapers | MI5 and the Torture Chambers of Pakistan | Ian Cobain | The Guardian |
New Media | Kenya: The Cry of Blood - Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances[4] | Julian Assange | WikiLeaks |
Periodicals - Consumer Magazines | The 'No Place for Children' campaign | Sir Al Aynsley Green, Gillian Slovo, Alice O'Keefe | New Statesman |
Periodicals - Newspaper Supplements | Why do the Italians Hate Us? | Dan McDougall, Robin Hammond | The Observer Magazine |
Photojournalism | No One Much Cares | Eugene Richards | Newsweek |
Radio | Forgotten: The Central African Republic | Edward Main, Ceri Thomas, Mike Thomson | BBC Radio 4 - Today Programme |
Television Documentary & Docudrama | Dispatches: Saving Africa's Witch Children | Mags Gavan, Joost Van der Valk, Alice Keens-Soper, Paul Woolwich | Channel 4 / Red Rebel Films / Southern Star Factual |
Television News | Kiwanja Massacre: Congo | Ben De Pear, Jonathan Miller, Stuart Webb, Robert Chamwami | Channel 4 News / ITN |
2010 | |||
Special Award 2010 | All the independent media workers of Burma | ||
Gaby Rado Memorial Award | Jamal Osman | Channel 4 News | |
International Television & Radio | People and Power: Ingushetia - A Second Chechnya? | Antony Butts, Dom Rotheroe, Mike Chamberlain | Al Jazeera |
Nations & Regions | Discrimination: Migrant Workers Rental Block | Guy Lynn, Mark Hayman, David Weller | BBC Look North |
National Newspapers | The Dark Side of Dubai | Johann Hari | The Independent |
Digital Media | Chinese Petitioners | Jamil Anderlini, Edward Cheng | Financial Times |
Periodicals - Consumer Magazines | Congo: The Horror | Ed Caesar, Susan Schulman | GQ |
Periodicals - Newspaper Supplements | The Return of the Bloody Diamonds | Dan McDougall, Robin Hammond | Live Magazine |
Photojournalism | Toxic Jeans | Robin Hammond | Sunday Times |
Radio | Zimbabwe: What Mugabe Didn't Tell Us | Mike Thomson, Edward Prendeville, Ceri Thomas | BBC Radio 4 - Today Programme |
Television Documentary & Docudrama | Burma VJ (JOINT WINNER) Dispatches: Afghanistan's Dirty War (JOINT WINNER) |
Lise-Lense Moller, Anders Ostergaard Tom Roberts, Peter Lindley, Najibullah Razaq |
More 4 / Magic Hour Films Channel 4 / October Films |
Television News | The End of Sri Lanka's War | Jonathan Miller, Nick Paton Walsh, Nevine Mabro, Bessie Du, Matt Jasper, Ben de Pear | Channel 4 News / ITN |
References
edit- ^ "Who we are". Amnesty International. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
- ^ "History – The Meaning of the Amnesty Candle". Amnesty International. Archived from the original on 18 June 2008. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
- ^ Amnesty International seeks entries for its Media Awards, Washington, DC: International Center for Journalists, 29 January 2010, archived from the original on 1 July 2012, retrieved 4 March 2012
- ^ "'The Cry of Blood' - Report on Extra-Judicial Killings and Disappearances" (PDF). Kenya National Commission on Human Rights/Enforced Disappearances Information Exchange Center. 25 September 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 December 2010. Retrieved 29 December 2010.
External links
edit- "Previous Winners and Nominees". Amnesty International. Archived from the original on 2 July 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
- "Winners and Nominees 2010". Amnesty International. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2010.