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The '''Amnesty International Media Awards''' are a unique set of awards which pay tribute to the best human rights journalism in the UK. [[Kate Allen (Amnesty International)|Kate Allen]], [[Amnesty International]] UK's director, said that the awards recognise the "pivotal role of the UK media industry in informing and shaping public opinion" and pays tribute to their "often dangerous work". The awards acknowledge the creativity, skills and sheer determination that it takes to get the news out in an educational and engaging way.
'''The Amnesty International Media Awards''' established in 1992 are awards "which recognise excellence in journalism that has made a significant contribution to the UK public’s greater awareness and understanding of human rights issues.".<ref name="PRAmestyQuoteSource001">{{cite press_release | date=7 January 2013 | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) press office | url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details_p.asp?NewsID=20544 | title=Entries invited for annual human rights media awards 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWC22sGl | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref> Amnesty UK has also said of the awards:
<blockquote>"This is our one opportunity in the year to acknowledge the creativity, skills and sheer determination that it takes to get the news out, and in such a way as to educate and alert millions of viewers, listeners and readers."<ref name="1996Archive001">{{cite web | url=http://web.archive.org/web/19970530094235/http://www.amnesty.org.uk/press_awards/index.html | title=Amnesty International Press Awards 1996, Welcome to the fifth Amnesty International UK Press Awards | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) Press Office | year=1996 | accessdate=January 8, 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWJBtbT2 | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref></blockquote>


The awards acknowledge the unique relationship that exists between Amnesty International and the media. At the inaugural award in 1992, Sir [[Trevor McDonald]] said of the relationship;
In particular, these awards highlight the unique relationship that exists between Amnesty International and the media. Sir [[Trevor McDonald]] explained the inextricably linked nature of this relationship: "Amnesty persists where journalism leaves off. We visit these scenes and then move on. Amnesty has the virtue of sticking with the story and making sure the truth comes out."<sup>[3]</sup>


== History ==
<blockquote>"Amnesty persists where journalism leaves off. We visit these scenes and then move on. Amnesty has the virtue of sticking with the story and
Amnesty International has always championed the importance of media in exposing human rights abuses. Amnesty itself began as a media story. In 1961, [[Peter Benenson]], the founder of Amnesty, was so enraged that two Portuguese students were jailed for seven years for toasting to freedom during the autocratic regime of [[António de Oliveira Salazar]], that he wrote a letter to ''[[The Observer]]''.
making sure the truth comes out,"<ref name="1992ReutersInauguration001">{{cite press_release | url=http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1992/06/04/0013.html | title='Cold Blood' AI Winner | agency=[[Reuters]] | date=Jun 4, 1992 | accessdate=January 9, 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DXbCGoUv | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref></blockquote>


His "Appeal for Amnesty" letter called for the release of six political prisoners from around the world. It began: "Open your newspapers – any day of the week – and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government. The newspaper readers feel a sickening sense of impotence. Yet if these feelings of disgust all over the world could be united into common action, something effective could be done"
Since the awards started in 1992 they have developed to include how new technology has affected journalism. The present awards are for National Newspapers, Magazines, Television News, Radio, International TV & Radio, Nations & Regions, Photojournalism, Digital Innovation, Student Human Rights Reporters and the [[Gaby Rado]] Memorial Award.


The judges are selected from the media, the arts and entertainment industries, the NGO sector, academia and the legal profession. Amnesty International senior staff also take part in the judging process but have no final vote over the choice of winners.
Amnesty began with a sentiment expressed through the media and to celebrate the unique relationship Amnesty shares with the media industry, the Amnesty International UK Media Awards were launched in 1992.

Awards may be made posthumously, such as the 2012 award to [[Marie Colvin]] for her coverage of [[Syria]] where she was killed whilst covering the [[siege of Homs]].<ref name="VeritaMag001">{{cite web | url=http://www.veritamag.com/2012/05/31/fearless-human-rights-journalism/ | title=‘Fearless human rights journalism’ | publisher= MEI International Ltd. | work=Verita Magazine | date=31 May 2012 | accessdate=8 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DYGJYwSg | archivedate=19 January 2013}}</ref>

Following the 1997 awards, [[Peter Bottomley]] MP placed an [[Early day motion]] before the UK Parliament requesting that parliament agree:<blockquote> "That this House notes the importance of the Amnesty International Press Awards, ...recognises that links with victims are usually achieved through the Press and broadcasters; and acknowledges that the search for the truth is sometimes a ticket to jail or worse for journalists."<ref name="1997 Amnesty AIUK EDM 143 Petter Bottomley 18.06.1997">{{cite journal | url=http://www.parliament.uk/edm/print/1997-98/143 | title=Early day motion 143 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS AWARDS Date tabled: 18.06.1997 | author=Bottomley Peter | journal=House of Commons business papers |date=June 1997 | issue=Session: 1997-98 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DlHny2FG | archivedate=18 January 2013 | quote=That this House notes the importance of the Amnesty International Press Awards; congratulates David Harrison with Melissa Jones of The Observer for articles about oil companies' role in Columbia, Lara Marlowe of Marie Claire for the investigation in Algeria 'Where Girls are Killed for Going to School', Saira Shah and her colleagues in Channel Four News-ITN for the filming in Kabul under the Taliban 'Women Under the Veil', Lindsey Hilsum with Peter Bate of Blackstone Pictures for Channel 4's Witness programme 'Rwanda-The Betrayed', Marc Jobst and his colleagues for BBC Radio 4's 'Chocolate Soldier from the USA', and photojournalist Gary Knight and Time Magazine Internation for 'The Highway to Hell'; recognises that links with victims are usually achieved through the Press and broadcasters; and acknowledges that the search for the truth is sometimes a ticket to jail or worse for journalists.}}</ref></blockquote>

The most recent awards ceremony was held on 29 May 2012 at the [[British Film Institute]] in central London.<ref name="012 Awards AIUK Announce 003">{{cite web | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20120902094826/http://amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10058 | title=Celebrating the best of human rights journalism | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | accessdate=12 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DcjqoJJ9 | archivedate=12 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="PRAmnestyAwardWinners2012">{{cite press_release | url=https://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=20144 | title=Amnesty announces 2012 Media Awards winners | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) press office | date=30 May 2012 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWBL7wH0 | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref><!-- Date maintenance tag added for future reference - Both dates and References will need to be updated - Recommend that future changed to update tags be made In Jan of each year as Amnesty usually announce awards date first week of January each year --> The 2013 awards are due to be announced on 11 June 2013.<ref name="PRAmestyQuoteSource001"/>{{Update after|2013|06|11|reason=Amnesty UK confirm award date as 11 June 2013 = Press release dated 7 January 2013}}

== Previous winners ==
{{main|List of Amnesty International UK Media Awards winners}}
The winners of awards have varied from major news corporations to little known individuals who through their work have brought unknown and unrecognised human rights issues before the world media.

The first overall winner of the 1992 inaugural awards was "Cold Blood – The massacre of East Timor" produced by Peter Gordon for ''[[First Tuesday (documentary strand)|First Tuesday]]'', [[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire Television]].<ref name="1992ReutersInauguration001"/><ref name="1992OverallWinnerITN001">{{cite web | url=http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITVProgs/1992/01/07/Y05870109/ | title=First Tuesday (Cold Blood: The Massacre of East Timor) | publisher=[[ITN| ITN (Independent Television News)]] | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archivedate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DXxSnXp4}}</ref><ref name="InColdBloodBook 001">{{cite book|author1=Constâncio Pinto|author2=Matthew Jardine|title=East Timor's Unfinished Struggle: Inside the Timorese Resistance|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=CdHlt6CSp54C&pg=PA185|year=1997|publisher=[[South End Press]]|isbn=978-0-89608-541-1|page=185}}</ref><ref name="InColdBloodBook 002">{{cite book|author1=Constâncio Pinto|author2=Matthew Jardine|title=East Timor's Unfinished Struggle: Inside the Timorese Resistance|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=CdHlt6CSp54C&pg=PA270|year=1997|publisher=[[South End Press]]|isbn=978-0-89608-541-1|page=270}}</ref> The programme graphically showed what has become known as the [[Santa Cruz massacre]], one of many events during the [[Indonesian occupation of East Timor]], 1975–99.

Past winners have included [[Channel 4 News|ITN Channel Four News team]], BBC's ''[[Panorama (TV series)|Panorama]]'', [[Al Jazeera English]], ''[[O Dia]]'' newspaper, Brazil, [[Marielos Monzón]] of Guatemala, [[Ignacio Gómez]] of Columbia and ''[[Tell Magazine]]'' from Nigeria.

The winners of 2012<ref name="AIUKAwards2012">{{cite web | url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=11297 | title=Winners of the 2012 Media Awards | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) Press Office| accessdate=30 May 2012 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWrg73Wo | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="AIUKAwards2012_002">{{cite web | url=https://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=20144 | title=Amnesty announces 2012 Media Awards winners ''Events in Middle East loom large in awards'' | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | date=30 May 2012 | accessdate=8 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWs7y2Np | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref> were: {{Update after|2013|06|11|reason=Amnesty UK confirm award date as 11 June 2013 = From Press release dated 7 January 2013}}
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| colspan="5" style="background:#ffdead;" align="center"| '''2012'''
|-
! width=20% | Category
! width=30% | Title
! width=23% | Organisation
! width=22% | Journalists
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| Doumentary
||''Sri Lanka's Killing Fields''
||[[ITN|ITN Productions]] for<br />[[Channel 4]]
|| [[Callum Macrae]],<br />Chris Shaw, [[Jon Snow]]
|| <ref name="SriLankaKillingFields001">{{cite news | url=http://srilanka.channel4.com/ | title=Sri Lanka's Killing Fields | date= | agency=[[ITN|ITN Productions For Channel 4]] | accessdate=8 January 2013 | author=[[Callum Macrae|Macrea, Callum]], | location=[[Channel 4]] | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWm4nAjL | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="SriLankasKillingFilelds002">{{cite web | url=http://www.channel4.com/news/channel-4-news-homs-film-wins-amnesty-award | title=Channel 4 News Homs film wins Amnesty award | publisher=[[Channel 4]] | date=30 May 2012 | accessdate=8 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWmkSzV2 | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref><br /><ref name="SriLankaKillingFields003">{{cite video | url=http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3DXADVagA2MUk%26feature%3Dyoutu.be | title=Sri Lanka's Killing Fields | publisher=Channel 4 | date=14 June 2011 | medium=[[4oD|4oD Documentaries Channel]] On [[YouTube]] | accessdate=8 January 2013}}</ref>
|-
| Digital media
|| ''Deaths in custody:<br />a case to answer''
|| [[The Bureau of Investigative Journalism|The Bureau of<br />Investigative Journalism]]
|| [[Iain Overton]], [[Angus Stickler]], <br />Dan Bell, Charlie Mole
||<ref name="Bureau001">{{cite web | url=http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/deaths-in-police-custody-2/ | title=Deaths in Police Custody | publisher=[[The Bureau of Investigative Journalism]] | year=2012 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWtGA5Fb | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="Bureau002">{{cite news | url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/rate-of-deaths-in-custody-is-higher-than-officials-admit-6297270.html?printService=print | title=Rate of deaths in custody is higher than officials admit | work=[[The Independent]] | date=21 January 2012 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | author=[[Angus Stickler|Stickler, Angus]] Bell, Danl Mole, Charlie | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWwED6Ew | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><br /><ref name="Bureau003">{{cite episode | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01bb703 | title=Police Restraint | series=[[File on 4]] | credits=[[BBC Radio 4]] | network=[[BBC]] | airdate=31 January 2012 | archivedate=8 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWv6uK25}}</ref>
|-
| Gaby Radio<br />Memorial Award
|| ''Horror in Homs''
|| [[Channel 4 News]]
|| Mani<ref name="WhoIsMani001">{{cite video | author-link=Mackey, Robert | url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/photographers-video-from-homs-shows-urban-warfare-in-vivid-detail/ | title=Photographer's Video From Homs Shows Urban Warfare in Vivid Detail | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=23 February 2012 | people=Mani | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DXm58zuG | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="WhoIsMani002">{{cite video | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/25/homs-mani-images-frontline | title=Homs: the story behind Mani's extraordinary images from the frontline | work=[[The Guardian]] | date=25 November 2011 | people=Mani Black,Ian | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DXlsKWFL | archivedate=19 January 2013}}</ref>
||<ref name="SriLankasKillingFilelds002"/><ref name="HorrorInHoms001">{{cite web | url=http://www.channel4.com/news/the-horror-in-homs | title=The horror in Homs | work=[[Channel 4 News]] | date=22 February 2012 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWxgT2UX | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><br /><ref name="HorrorInHoms003">{{cite video | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyQIv5wyYGE | title=Syria: the horror of Homs, a city at war | work=Channel 4 News | date=22 February 2012 | medium=[[Channel 4 News]] Channel on [[YouTube]]}}</ref>
|-
| International TV<br />and Radio
|| ''[[Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark]]''
|| [[Al Jazeera English]]
|| [[Jon Blair]],<br />[[May Ying Welsh]]
||<ref name="BahrainShouting001">{{cite news | url=http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/2011/08/201184144547798162.html | title=Bahrain: Shouting in the dark | work=[[Al Jazeera English]] | date=4 August 2011 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archivedate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWyRKGd2}}</ref><ref name="BahrainShouting003">{{cite video | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=xaTKDMYOBOU | title=Featured Documentaries: Bahrain: Shouting in the dark | publisher=[[Al Jazeera English]] | date=4 August 2011 | location=[[Al Jazeera English]] channel on [[YouTube]]}}</ref>
|-
| Magazines: Consumer
|| "Nature's defenders"
|| ''[[New Internationalist]]''
|| Vanessa Baird<ref name="VanessaBairdBio">{{cite web | url=http://www.newint.org/contributors/vanessa-baird/ | title=About Vanessa Baird - Articles by Vanessa Baird | work=[[New Internationalist]] | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWzIyAno | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref>
||<ref name="NaturesDefenders001">{{cite web | url=http://www.newint.org/blog/radio-ni/2011/09/30/vanessa-baird-interview-south-america-environment/ | title=Vanessa Baird on nature's defenders | work=[[New Internationalist]] | author=Featuring Vanessa Baird | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWzIyAno | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="NaturesDefenders002">{{cite video | url=http://www.newint.org/blog/radio-ni/2011/09/30/vanessa-baird-interview-south-america-environment/podcast.mp3 | title=Podcast: Vanessa Baird on nature’s defenders | work=New Internationalist | people=Vanessa Baird | medium=Podcast}}</ref><br /><ref name="NaturesDefenders003">{{cite episode | title=Vanessa Baird on nature's defenders | network=[[New Internationalist|Radio NI, ''New Internationalist'']] | airdate=29 September 2011 | url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-vanessa-baird-on-natures/id423327831}}</ref>
|-
| Magazines: Newspaper<br />supplements
|| "The rape of men"
|| ''[[The Observer Magazine]]''
|| Will Storr
||<ref name="RapeOfMen001">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/17/the-rape-of-men/print | title=The rape of men | work=The Observer Magazine | date=16 July 2011 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | author=Storr, Will | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DX0l6bAc | archivedate=19 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="RapeOfMen002">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/jul/15/democratic-congo-male-rape | title=Male rape: a weapon of war - audio slideshow | date=15 July 2011 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | author=Storr, Will Powell, Jim | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DX0pQ2y5 | archivedate=6 January 2013 | work=The Guardian}}</ref><br /><ref name="RapeOfMen003">{{cite web | url=http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2011/07/2011728101626315380.html | title=The silent male victims of rape | publisher=[[Al Jazeera English]] | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DX1FIhAi | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="RapeOfMen004">{{cite web | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=IbhrNgetKEw | title=Inside Story - The silent victims of rape | publisher=Al Jazeera English | date=28 July 2011 | medium= [[YouTube]]}}</ref>
|-
| National Newspapers
|| "We live in fear of a massacre"
|| ''[[The Sunday Times]]''
|| [[Marie Colvin]]
||<ref name="MarieColvin001">{{cite web | url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/news/article874796.ece | title='We live in fear of a massacre' - repunlished as "Final dispatch from Homs, the battered city" | work=[[The Times]] | date=19 February 2012 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | author=Colvin, Marie | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DX3CfS0Z | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="MarieColvin002">{{cite news | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/22/marie-colvin-dead-sunday-times-final-piece_n_1293350.html?view=print&comm_ref=false | title=Marie Colvin Dead: Sunday Times Releases Colvin's Final Piece Outside Of Pay wall | work=[[The Huffington Post]] | date=22 February 2012 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DX41OTqE | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><br /><ref name="MarieColvin003">{{cite news | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9097762/Syria-Sunday-Times-journalist-Marie-Colvin-killed-in-Homs.html | title=Syria: Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin killed in 'targeted attack' by Syrian forces | work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] | date=22 February 2012 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | author=Wardrop, Murray | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DX4JUCEP | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref>
|-
| Nations and Regions
|| "[[Adam (murder victim)|Torso in the Thames]]"
|| ''[[London Tonight|ITV London Tonight]]''
|| Ronke Phillips,<br />Faye Nickolds
||<ref name="IkpomwosaTorsoInThames001">{{cite web | url=http://www.itv.com/news/london/2012-05-29/london-tonight-wins-amnesty-award/ | title=London Tonight wins Amnesty Award | publisher=[[ITV (TV network)|ITV plc]] | work=[[London Tonight]] | date=30 May 2012 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DXmJajVI | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="IkpomwosaTorsoInThames002">{{cite video | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wyP8f3YSKg | title=ITV Ikpomwosa Full Report | work=[[ITV London News]] | date=16 October 2011 | people=Ronke Phillips | medium=[[YouTube]]}}</ref><br /><ref name="IkpomwosaTorsoInThames004">{{cite web | url=http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/smw_speaker/ronke-phillips/ | title=Ronke Phillips ITV News | publisher=Crowdcentric Media LLC | work=Social Media Week | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DXmQqrRP | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref>

|-
| Photojournalism
|| "A place to stay - Dale Farm"
|| ''[[The Times]]''
|| Mary Turner<ref name="MaryTurner001">{{cite web | url=http://maryturner.photoshelter.com/ | title=Mary Turner Photography | publisher=Mary Turner Photography | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DXmZCCCm | archivedate=19 January 2013}}</ref>
||<ref name="APlaceToStay001">{{cite web | url=http://maryturnerphotography.com/contents/Photo%20Stories/A%20Place%20To%20Stay%20-%20Dale%20Farm%202009-2011/ | title=Photo Stories: A Place To Stay - Dale Farm 2009-2011 | publisher=[[The Times]] - Mary Turner | work=The Times| accessdate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DXmntUcP | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="APlaceToStay002">{{cite web | url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article3571299.ece | title=Rats are the real winners of the battle for Dale Farm | work=The Times | date=August 2011 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DXnNgFUE | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><br /><ref name="APlaceToStay003">{{cite web | url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article3149960.ece | title=Travellers to make their last stand as eviction zero hour arrives |work=The Times | date=31 August 2011 |accessdate=9 January 2013 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DXnXfAqN |archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref>
|-
| Radio
|| "Victoria Derbyshire in<br />Guantanamo Bay"
|| [[BBC Radio 5 Live]]
|| [[Victoria Derbyshire]],<br />Louisa Compton
||<ref name="VictoriaGuantanamo001">{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0141wc7 | title=Victoria Derbyshire Live from Guantanamo Bay | publisher=[[BBC]]| work=Live from Guantanamo Bay | date=9 September 2011 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archivedate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DXqCgnQO}}</ref><ref name="VictoriaGuantanamo002">{{cite web | url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-09-10/victoria-derbyshire-my-time-inside-guantanamo-bay | title=Victoria Derbyshire: my time inside Guantanamo Bay | work=[[Radio Times]] | date=10 September 2011 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | author=Seale, Jack | archivedate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DXrdANmR }}</ref><br /><ref name="VictoriaGuantanamo003">{{cite news | url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/the-week-in-radio-a-letter-from-america-that-restores-the-faith-2350940.html?printService=print | title=The Week in Radio: A letter from America that restores the faith | work=[[The Independent]] | date=8 September 2011 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DXrMffyJ | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="VictoriaGuantanamo004">{{cite video | url=https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/victoria-derbyshires-interviews/id350118482 | title=Guantanamo Bay 09 Sept 11 Victoria comes live from | publisher=[[BBC Radio 5 Live]] | medium=Podcast - [[iTunes]]}}</ref>

|-
| TV News
|| "Undercover in Homs"
| BBC ''[[Newsnight]]''
|| [[Sue Lloyd-Roberts]],<br />Amanda Gunn
||<ref name="NewsnightInsideHoms001">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/9617507.stm | title=Inside Homs, besieged centre of Syrian resistance | publisher=[[BBC]]|work= [[Newsnight]] | date=17 October 2011 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | author=[[Sue Lloyd-Roberts|Lloyd-Roberts, Sue]] | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DXtKbu1a | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="NewsnightInsideHoms002">{{cite web | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAk5IIOB01w | title=BBC: Inside Homs, besieged centre of Syrian resistance | publisher=[[BBC]] |work= Newsnight | accessdate=9 January 2013}}</ref><br />
|-
| Student Human Rights<br />Reporter Award
|| "The curious case of<br />John Oguchuckwu"
|| ''[[Glasgow University Guardian]]''
|| Amy Mackinnon
||<ref name="Oguchuckwu001"/><ref name="AmyMackinnonQuote001"/><!-- The two references are used for quotes under "Purpose of the awards"" -->
|}


== Purpose of the awards ==
== Purpose of the awards ==
Amnesty believes that by recognising excellence in human rights journalism, journalists and commissioners will be encouraged to increase the quality and quantity of their human rights coverage. Good quality media coverage is important as highlighted by [[Aung San Suu Kyi]], Burmese pro-democracy leader, at the 2011 awards ceremony because it is "through the media that the rest of the world gets to hear about what we have to undergo".<sup>[53]</sup>
In 2002, Richard Bunting,<ref name="RichardBunting001">{{cite web | url=http://www.richardbunting.com/career_history.htm | title=Richard Bunting - career history | publisher=Richard Bunting | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DYx6tgml | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref> former Director of Communications at Amnesty International UK, said:


In addition to honouring journalists, [[Lindsey Hilsum]], the [[Channel 4 News]] International Editor who was the host of the 2014 awards, emphasises that the Amnesty Awards play a very important role in encouraging editors to allow journalists to cover more obscure stories that are far away and expensive. She said that when: "you point out that you won an Amnesty Award for a similar story a couple of years ago. It makes editors think that they will get some sort of kudos from this, and that it matters within the industry. So I think it’s tremendously important and I think Amnesty is doing a tremendous job by giving us these awards so that we can use them to say: 'Yes, we’ve got to carry on reporting human rights, it really matters'."<sup>[54]</sup>
<blockquote>"Journalists play a crucial role in exposing human rights abuses and putting a human face to what otherwise can be dismissed as a distant tragedy. These awards recognise the fact that the media’s role is often difficult but can be enormously powerful in changing the actions and even policies of the perpetrators of human rights abuses."<ref name="BuntingQuote001">{{cite web | url=http://wayback.archive.org/web/20020912021211/http://www.amnesty.org.uk/cgi-bin/eatsoup.cgi?id=PRwxMdRDxIcAAAJcFqc&a= | title=11th Annual Media Awards: Winners Announced | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | date=28 June 2002 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | author=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DYx7cZRC | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref></blockquote>


However, more specifically as pointed out by Amy Mackinnon, 2012 winner of the student award and a current journalist: "The Amnesty International UK awards are a heartening reminder that, in the right hands, journalism can be a potent force for good."<sup>[50]</sup>
Amnesty International believes that in recognizing excellence in human rights journalism journalists and commissioners are encouraged in increasing the quality and quantity of their human rights coverage. [[Aung San Suu Kyi]], Burmese pro-democracy leader, said at the 2011 awards ceremony that it is “through the media that the rest of the world gets to hear about what we have to undergo in this country.”.<ref name="2011AungDanSuuKyi002">{{cite web | url=http://www.nus.org.uk/cy/campaigns-in-welsh/global-justice/sophie-mei-scoops-amnesty-student-media-award-/ | title=Sophie Mei Scoops Amnesty Student Media Award | publisher=[[National Union of Students (United Kingdom)|National Union of Students (NUS)]] | year=2011 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWZMdont | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref> Amnesty have said of the award recipients:

<blockquote>"Without these journalists, who expose the unpalatable and highlight the hypocrisy of those who kill and torture, the guilty would be even less inclined than they are now to consider the implications of their actions. They portray the killers and the torturers in their true light and in this respect their work and that of Amnesty International is inextricably linked."<ref name="1996Archive001"/></blockquote>

The awards generate mutually beneficial publicity both for shortlisted entrants and for Amnesty International's work, and also allow journalists and Amnesty's media team to network, facilitating better links between the UK media community and human rights campaigners. Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor, said of the awards:<blockquote>
"Amnesty Awards are really important. Because sometimes it’s very hard: you go in to see your editor and you say “something’s happening in such and such a country”; and it’s obscure, and it’s far away, and it’s expensive, and it’s difficult to get to, and there’s a much more interesting and immediate story somewhere else. And then maybe you point out that you won an Amnesty Award for a similar story a couple of years ago, and it makes them think: and it makes them think that they get some sort of kudos from this, and that it matters within the industry. So I think it’s tremendously important and I think Amnesty is doing a tremendous job by giving us these awards so that we can use them to say, "Yes, we’ve got to carry on reporting human rights, it really matters."<ref name="C4NewsLindseyHilsum">{{cite web | url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/videos.asp?id=113 | title=Cite: Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor: 15 Years Of Excellence, Amnesty International media Awards 1992-2006 | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | accessdate=January 8, 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWRUZBlU | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref></blockquote>

Amy Mackinnon, 2012 winner of the student award for her article "The Curious Case of John Oguchuckwu",<ref name="Oguchuckwu001">{{cite news | url=http://glasgowguardian.co.uk/views/hard-times-in-nigeria/ | title=The curious case of John Oguchuckwu | work=[[Glasgow University Guardian]] | date=12 December 2011 | author=Mackinnon, Amy | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWWiFEQn | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref> said: "The AIUK awards are a heartening reminder that, in the right hands, journalism can be a potent force for good,"<ref name="AmyMackinnonQuote001">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/02/amnesty-international-student-reporter-award | title=Amnesty International media awards 2013: calling all students | work=The Observer | date=December 2, 2012 | author=Jones, Corinne | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWWxiTHi | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref>


==Awards==
==Awards==


=== Categories ===
=== Categories ===
Categories for the 2013 awards were:
{{Update after|2014|01|10|reason=Amnesty UK confirm generally announce the years awards and categories during the 1st week of January}}
* TV News
Categories for the 2013 awards are:
* Digital Innovation
* Digital
* Features
* Documentary
* Photojournalism
* National Newspapers
* Radio
* Nations & Regions
* Gaby Rado Memorial Award
* Gaby Rado Memorial Award
* Documentaries
* International TV & Radio
* Magazine - Weekly
* Magazine - Monthly
* National Newspapers
* Nations & Regions
* Photojournalism
* Student Human Rights Reporter
* Student Human Rights Reporter
* Radio
* Television News


===Gaby Rado Memorial Award===
===Gaby Rado Memorial Award===


The '''Gaby Rado Memorial Award''', first awarded in May 2004, recognizes a journalist who has been covering national or international human rights stories in broadcast or print media for less than five years.<ref name="GRadoAward002">{{cite web | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20040817081409/http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/awards/2004/winners/rado.shtml | title=Gaby Rado Award | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | year=2004 | accessdate=8 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWOmexly | archivedate=17 August 2004}}</ref><ref name="GRadoAward003">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/may/27/channel4.broadcasting | title=Amnesty creates award in honour of Rado |work=[[The Guardian]] | date=27 May 2003 | author=Byrne, Ciar | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWPA9R1H | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref>
The '''Gaby Rado Memorial Award''', first awarded in May 2004, recognizes a journalist who has been covering national or international human rights stories in broadcast or print media for less than five years.<ref name="GRadoAward002">{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/awards/2004/winners/rado.shtml |title=Gaby Rado Award |publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) |year=2004 |access-date=8 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040817081409/http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/awards/2004/winners/rado.shtml |archive-date=17 August 2004 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="GRadoAward003">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/may/27/channel4.broadcasting |title=Amnesty creates award in honour of Rado |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=27 May 2003 |author=Byrne, Ciar |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080826191959/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/may/27/channel4.broadcasting/print |archive-date=26 August 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref>


The award was established with the help of the family, friends and colleagues of the journalist [[Gaby Rado]], who was found dead in [[Iraq]] in 2003. He had been the recipient of three Amnesty Media Awards: in 1996 for a series of reports on Bosnia/Srebrenica, 1998 for coverage of the Muslim minority Uighurs in north-western China and 2002 for his "moving account of the human cost of the atrocities committed in the Balkan Wars".<ref name="GRadoAward001000">{{cite web | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20040622121632/http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/awards/2003/rado.shtml | title=Tribute to Gaby Rado 17 January 1955–30 March 2003 | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | year=2003 | accessdate=8 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWUmK8nY | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref>
The award was established with the help of the family, friends and colleagues of the journalist [[Gaby Rado]], who was found dead in [[Iraq]] in 2003. He had been the recipient of three Amnesty Media Awards: in 1996 for a series of reports on Bosnia/Srebrenica, 1998 for coverage of the Muslim minority [[Uighurs]] in north-western China and 2002 for his "moving account of the human cost of the atrocities committed in the Balkan Wars".<ref name="GRadoAward001000">{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/awards/2003/rado.shtml |title=Tribute to Gaby Rado 17 January 1955–30 March 2003 |publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) |year=2003 |access-date=8 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040622121632/http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/awards/2003/rado.shtml |archive-date=22 June 2004 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The inaugural award, in 2004, was presented to James Astill<ref name="AstillJames001">{{cite web | url=http://www.apwatt.co.uk/frame.asp?left=authors_left.asp?author_id=714&right=author_full.asp?author_id=714 | title=Astill, James | publisher=AP Watt at United Agents LLP | work=AP Watt Directory | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DY1WWxQb | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="AstillJames002">{{cite news | url=http://www.economist.com/mediadirectory/james-astill | title=Media directory Mr James Astill Political Editor and Bagehot columnist | work=[[The Economist]] | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DY1XS8tL | archivedate=9 January 2013 | date=9 June 2011}}</ref><ref name="AstillJames003">{{cite web | url=http://www.journalistid.com/?id=12&name=james_astill | title=James Astill London, United Kingdom Defence and Terrorism Correspondent | work=JournalistID | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DY2dLZ4p | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref> for his coverage of events in [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] and the massacre in [[Bunia]], 2003.<ref name="Bunia001">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/may/23/congo.jamesastill | title=UN troops wait behind razor wire as Congo's streets run with blood | work=The Guardian | date=23 May 2003 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | author=Astill, James | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DYB6Upqk | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="AstillJames005">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/congo/subsection/0,12292,966555,00.html | title=Special Report Congo Massacre In Bunia | work=[[Guardian Unlimited]] | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DY8dgPs3 | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="AstillJamesNews006">{{cite video | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE8iwNnob4I | title=Bunia Massacre - Democratic Republic of Congo | work=[[Newsnight|BBC Newsnight]] | date=23 May 2003 | medium=[[YouTube]] | location=Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo}}</ref> Astill's award winning work featuring in ''[[The Guardian]]'', ''[[The Observer]]'' and on ''[[Newsnight|BBC Newsnight]]''.<ref name="AstillJames004">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3712969.stm | title=Awards for human rights coverage | work=[[BBC News]] | date=13 May 2004 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DY14EXzS | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="AstilJamesNews000">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/11/congo.jamesastill | title=Congo cannibalism claim provides first challenge |work=The Guardian | date=11 March 2003 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | author=Astill, James | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DY7iWIuL | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="AstillJamesNews001">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/aug/04/congo.jamesastill | title=Rwandans wage a war of plunder | work=The Observer | date=4 August 2002 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | author=Astill, James | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DY4cKP24 | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="AstillJamesNews002">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/apr/10/congo.foreignpolicy | title=Counting the dead | work=The Guardian | date=10 April 2003 | author=Astill, James | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DY7qSunC | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="AstillJamesNews003">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/may/05/congo.comment | title=email James Astill @ Congo | work=The Guardian | date=5 May 2003 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | author=Astill, James | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DY7tembz | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="AstilNews004">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/may/11/congo.jamesastill | title=Congo casts out its 'child witches' | work=The Observer| date=11 May 2003 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | author=Astill, James | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DY7xNatS | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="AstillJamesNews005">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jun/08/congo.jamesastill | title=And then the cry went up: 'Where are the French?' | work=The Observer| date=8 June 2003 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | author=Astill, James | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DY81TISG | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref>

===Digital Media Award===
The award was developed in 2008 as the "New Media" award.<ref name="MediaAwardWinners2008">{{cite web | url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details_p.asp?NewsID=17786 | title=Amnesty announces Media Awards 2008 winners | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | date=17 June 2008 | accessdate=10 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DZQJcjEE | archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref>

The first award winner [[Sahar Hussein al-Haideri|Sahar al-Haideri]], was nominated posthumously by the [[Institute for War and Peace Reporting]], for her work in Iraq.<ref name="AlHaiseriObit001">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/18/pressandpublishing.digitalmedia/print | title=Gunned-down Iraqi journalist wins Amnesty UK media award |work=The Guardian | date=18 June 2008 | accessdate=10 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DZQWfoB8 | archivedate=10 January 2013 | first=Stephen | last=Brook}}</ref> Her work "Honour Killing Sparks Fears of New Iraqi Conflict",
<ref name="AlHaoderi001">
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| url=http://iwpr.net/print/report-news/honour-killing-sparks-fears-new-iraqi-conflict
| title=Honour Killing Sparks Fears of New Iraqi Conflict
| publisher=[[Institute for War and Peace Reporting]]
| work= From iwpr.net
| date=5 June 2007
| accessdate=10 January 2013
| author=al-Haideri, Sahar al-Haideri AKA {{lang-ar|سحر حسين الحيدري}}
| archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DZOL30wz
| archivedate=10 January 2013
}}</ref><ref name="AlHaideri002">
{{cite web
| url=http://www.menassat.com/?q=ar/news-articles/2169-
| title= القتل غسلا للعار يثير مخاوف تفجر صراع عراقي جديد
| publisher=menassat.com
| date=1 October 2007
| accessdate=10 January 2013
| author={{lang-ar|سحر حسين الحيدري}} AKA Sahar al-Haider
| quote="Honour Killing Sparks Fears of New Iraqi Conflict" available in the original Arabic with English translation as an option.
| archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DZON5TwW
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}} {{ar icon}}</ref> published 5 June 2007, was specifically cited by the judges.<ref name="MediaAwardWinners2008"/>

She had survived kidnap attempts and shootings. She had written many things critical of the authorities under a pseudonym and published via blog for her safety. Shortly before her murder she had revealed her self as the writer. She was murdered on 7 June 2007 in Mosul by members of the Ansar al-Sunna extremist group who claimed she was spreading lies. Her murder brought wide condemnation.<ref name="AlHaidariPressReleaseUNESCO001">{{cite web | url=http://www.unesco.org/ar/home/ar-single-view/news/-56b48a361b/cHash/be277c1d33/ | title= المدير العام يدين جريمة قتل الصحافية العراقية سحر حسين علي الحيدري "Director-General condemns murder of Iraqi journalist Sahar Hussein Ali al-Haidari" | publisher=[[UNESCO]] | work=Press Release No. 2007-63 | date=19 June 2007 | accessdate=10 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DZRLRrVN | archivedate=10 January 2013|language=ar}}</ref><ref name="AlHaidariPressReleaseUNESCO002">{{cite web | url=http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=24784&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html | title=News Director-General condemns murder of Iraqi journalist Sahar Hussein Ali al-Haydari | publisher=[[UNESCO]] | date=19 June 2007 | accessdate=10 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DZRn1NoL | archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref>

Other winners have been [[WikiLeaks]], 2009, for their work in exposing extrajudicial killings and disappearances in [[Kenya]].<ref name="MediaAwardWinners2009">{{cite web | url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details_p.asp?NewsID=18227 | title=Amnesty announces Media Awards 2009 winners | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | date=2 June 2009 | accessdate=10 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DZTQ5nyx | archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="Wikileaks2009Win001">{{cite web | url=http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/difficult-to-get-western-media-attention-on-kenyan-killings-and-disappearances-says-wikileaks-editor-/s2/a534659/ | title=Difficult to get Western media attention on Kenyan killings and disappearances, says WikiLeaks editor | publisher=Mousetrap Media Ltd | work=Journalist.co.uk | accessdate=10 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DZhczd3p | archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="Wikileaks2009Win002">{{cite web | url=http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Kenya:_The_Cry_of_Blood_-_Report_on_Extra-Judicial_Killings_and_Disappearances%2C_Sep_2008 | title=Kenya: The Cry of Blood - Report on Extra-Judicial Killings and Disappearances, Sep 2008 |work=[[WikiLeaks]] |date=1 November 2008 |accessdate=10 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DZhdXfP1 | archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref>

[[The Bureau of Investigative Journalism]] has won the award twice. First, in 2011,<ref name="AwardWinners2011">{{cite web | url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details_p.asp?newsId=19475 | title=Amnesty announces 2011 Media Awards winners | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | date=24 May 2011 | accessdate=10 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DZi1sgql | archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref> for their work using a dedicated website "''<nowiki>www.iraqwarlogs.com</nowiki>''"<ref name="TBOIJIraqWarLogs001">{{cite web | url=http://www.iraqwarlogs.com | title=Iraq War Logs | publisher=[[The Bureau of Investigative Journalism]] | accessdate=10 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DZhyXx9e | archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref> to analyse and expose the detail of [[Iraq War documents leak]] - [[WikiLeaks]], 22 October 2010. The second award, 2012, was for "Deaths in Custody: A Case to Answer".<ref name="PRAmnestyAwardWinners2012"/><ref name="Bureau001"/>

===Young Human Rights Reporter Of The Year Award===
'''Young Human Rights Reporter Of The Year Award - (YHRR)''' is run together with 'The Guardian Teacher Network'<ref name="Guardian Teachers Network 001">{{cite web | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network | title=The Guardian Professional Teacher Network | work=[[The Guardian]] | accessdate=10 January 2013 | date=21 March 2011}}</ref> and "SecEd".<ref name="SecEd 001">{{cite web | url=http://www.sec-ed.co.uk/ | title=SecEd Website | publisher=Mark Allen Group - MA Education | work=SecEd | accessdate=10 January 2013}}</ref> The award partners work together to provide teachers and students with educational materials, introductory lessons and human rights article planning sheets to integrate the subjects of Human rights and Journalism in the classroom.<ref name="YHHR lessons 001">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/teacher-blog/2013/jan/07/new-year-resolutions-teacher-network/print | title=How to teach... New Year's resolutions |work=The Guardian | date=7 January 2013 | accessdate=10 January 2013 | author=Drabble, Emily | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6Daeyx1yX | archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="YHHR Lessons 002">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/2012/nov/09/global-citizenship-10-teaching-tips/print | title=10 tips to promote global citizenship in the classroom | work=The Guardian | date=9 November 2012 | accessdate=10 January 2013 | author=King, Richard | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DaezOr5f | archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="Amnesty YHRR 001">{{cite web | url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=12085 | title=Young Human Rights Reporter Competition | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DaezOr5f | archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref>

The Young Human Rights Reporter award is open to all young people in the UK of school ages seven to 18, Upper Primary to Sixth Form pupils. The Award is divided into four age <ref name="Amensty YHRR 002">{{cite web | url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/uploads/documents/doc_22727.pdf | title=young human rights reporter competition, terms and conditions | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | accessdate=10 January 2013}}</ref>

The entries for the competition have surprised even the judges; [[Malorie Blackman]] said: "The range of subjects was quite eye-opening, and the quality of the writing was so fantastic"<ref name="MalloryBlackman001">{{cite video | url=http://vimeo.com/25895543 | title=Amnesty International Young Human Rights Reporter of The Year Award 2011 | publisher=Bellotheque & Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | date=2011 | people=Malorie Blackman | medium=Video}}</ref> with the young writers bringing to the judges' attention areas of human rights that were unknown to them.<ref name="Amnesty YYHR 003">{{cite web | url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/uploads/documents/doc_22525.pdf | title=YOUNG HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTER OF THE YEAR, Shortlisted entries 2012 | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | date=23 April 2012 | accessdate=10 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="Amnesty YYHR 004">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jun/01/human-rights-amnesty-competition-winners/print | title=The winners of the Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year competition | work=[[The Guardian]] | date=1 June 2010 | accessdate=10 January 2013 | author=Drabble, Emily | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DaeqlduM | archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="Amnesty YYHR 005">{{cite news | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/may/24/human-rights-schools/print |title=Young human rights reporter of the year 2011 - primary school winner | work=[[The Guardian]] | date=24 May 2011 | accessdate=10 January 2013 | author=French, Isabella | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6Daey7WHT | archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref>

The subjects covered have ranged from bullying to sub munitions scattered across the landscape of Laos and killing many people every year. [[Ellie Crisell]] said of the entrants, "I think it is great that they are recognised for the brilliant work they are doing, and I hope it gives them a massive confidence boost and they go on to become the great journalists they clearly are."<ref name="Ellie Crisell 001">{{cite video | url=http://vimeo.com/24114812 | title=Amnesty International Young Human Rights Reporter Competition Highlights | publisher=Bellotheque | date=2011 | people=Ellie Crisell | medium=Video}}</ref>

[[Kate Allen (Amnesty International)|Kate Allen]], Director of Amnesty International UK, says of the awards: "I hope this competition will inspire a new generation of writers and broadcasters to take up the mantle and become the human rights journalists of tomorrow."<ref name="Amnesty YYHR 003"/>


===Student Human Rights Reporter Award===
===Student Human Rights Reporter Award===
The '''Student Human Rights Reporter Award''' was started in 2010 and first awarded in 2011.<ref name="AwardWinners2011"/> Initially the award was run with The NUS (National Union Of Students) and ''The Mirror'' newspaper.<ref name="StudentAwardMirror001">{{cite web | url=http://www.nusconnect.org.uk/news/article/studentmedia/1203/ |title=Student Human Rights Journalist of the Year Award 2010/11 | publisher=[[National Union of Students (United Kingdom)|National Union of Students (NUS)]]| work=nusconnect.org | date=1 January 2011 | accessdate=10 January 2013 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DZiLSZWy |archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="StudentMirror002">{{cite web |url=http://www.nus.org.uk/Global/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20Student%20Human%20Rights%20Reporter%20Award%20Entry%20Form.pdf |title=STUDENT HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTER OF THE YEAR 2010| publisher=[[National Union of Students (United Kingdom)|National Union of Students (NUS)]] |work=Application Forms |accessdate=10 January 2013 |author=5 October 2010}}</ref> The Award is now run in conjunction with the NUS, ''[[The Observer]]'' and the [[Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting]].<ref name="StudentObserver001">{{cite web | url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/article_print.asp?ArticleID=4049 |title=Student Human Rights Reporter Award |publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | accessdate=10 January 2013 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DZjRsS3J |archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref>
The '''Student Human Rights Reporter Award''' was started in 2010 and first awarded in 2011. Initially the award was run with The NUS ([[National Union of Students (United Kingdom)|National Union of Students]]) and ''[[Daily Mirror|The Mirror]]'' newspaper.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nus.org.uk/en/news/student-human-rights-reporter-of-the-year-award-launched/ | title=Student Human Rights Reporter of the Year Award launched | publisher=NUS News | date=5 October 2010 | access-date=23 August 2017}}</ref> The award is now run in conjunction with the NUS, and ''The Observer''.<ref name="2013 award/">{{cite web | url=https://www.amnesty.org.uk/node/14548 | title=Final call for entries: Student human rights reporter award a week to go | publisher=Amnesty International UK | work=Press releases | date=February 2013 | access-date=23 August 2017}}</ref>

The award is open to students in further and higher education, with the prize allowing them to work with sponsors to develop real-world reporting and writing experience.<ref name="Terms&Conditions2013">{{cite web | url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/uploads/documents/doc_22765.pdf | title=TERMS AND CONDITIONS | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | date=9 October 2012 |accessdate=10 January 2013 | author=O'Shaughnessy, Carlien}}</ref> The Pulitzer Centre funds the winner to allow then to travel and report on an area or subject of interest while receiving support from professional journalists.<ref name="PulitzerFellowship2013">{{cite web | url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/uploads/documents/doc_22766.pdf | title=PULITZER CENTER REPORTING FELLOWSHIP | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | date=7 July 2012 | accessdate=10 January 2013 | author=Russo, Katherine}}</ref>


The award is open to students in further and higher education, with the prize allowing them to work with sponsors to develop real-world reporting and writing experience for two weeks. In 2013 the top prize was a fellowship with the US-based [[Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting]] and a $2,000 travel grant to cover an under-reported topic of ones choice.<ref name="2013 award/" />
The inaugural prize was won by Sophie Mei for "Sex Trafficking: A Family Affair" published by ''VERITA Magazine''.<ref name="WinnerSophieMei2012_001">{{cite web | url=http://www.veritamag.com/2011/01/18/sex-trafficking-a-family-affair/ | title=Sex Trafficking: A Family Affair | publisher=MEI International | work=Verita magazine | date=18 January 2011 | accessdate=11 January 2013 | author=Mei, Sophie | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DZk3M0Qh | archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="WinnerSophieMei2012_002">{{cite news | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-13575893?print=true | title=Student belly dancer Sophie Mei wins Amnesty award | work=[[BBC News]] | date=27 May 2011 | accessdate=10 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DZmpKQfv | archivedate=10 January 2013}}</ref> The 2012 prize was won by Amy Mackinnon, for "The curious case of John Oguchuckwu",<ref name="Oguchuckwu001"/> published by ''The Glasgow Guardian''.<ref name="VeritaMag001"/><ref name="AIUKAwards2012"/>


== Entry criteria ==
== Entry criteria ==
Each year there is a call for submissions focusing on the areas of human rights work encompassed by Amnesty's mission, which is "to protect individuals wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied".<ref name="AIUKMission001">{{cite web | url=http://www.terrylockmediasales.co.uk/amnesty-international-magazine.htm | title=Amnesty International magazine | accessdate=8 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWf3tazE | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="AIUKMission002">{{cite web | url=http://www.walker.co.uk/amnesty.aspx | title=Walker Books and Amnesty International | publisher=[[Walker Books]] | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWfLGFmy | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="AIUKMission003">{{cite web | url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10010 | title=Our Work | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | accessdate=8 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWfQ3n0D | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref>
Each year there is a call for submissions focusing on the areas of human rights work encompassed by Amnesty's mission, which is "to protect individuals wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied".<ref name="AIUKMission001">{{cite web |url=http://www.terrylockmediasales.co.uk/amnesty-international-magazine.htm |title=Amnesty International magazine |access-date=8 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130217145917/http://www.terrylockmediasales.co.uk/amnesty-international-magazine.htm |archive-date=17 February 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="AIUKMission002">{{cite web |url=http://www.walker.co.uk/amnesty.aspx |title=Walker Books and Amnesty International |publisher=[[Walker Books]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413140634/http://www.walker.co.uk/amnesty.aspx |archive-date=13 April 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=8 January 2013 }}</ref><ref name="AIUKMission003">{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10010 |title=Our Work |publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) |access-date=8 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115055513/http://amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10010 |archive-date=15 January 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>


Entries must have been originally published or broadcast in the year preceding the closing deadline. There is an entry fee to help Amnesty cover the cost of administering the awards. The full criteria is available in the Media Awards section of the Amnesty International UK website,<ref name="AIUKAwardsTimeToEnter">{{cite web | url=http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10058 | title=Time To Enter | publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) | year=2013 | accessdate=9 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWwaWA7k | archivedate=9 January 2013}}</ref> and are detailed on the entry form sent out each year around four months before the ceremony.
Entries must have been originally published or broadcast in the year preceding the closing deadline. There is an entry fee to help Amnesty cover the cost of administering the awards. The full criteria are available in the Media Awards section of the Amnesty International UK website,<ref name="AIUKAwardsTimeToEnter">{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10058 |title=Time To Enter |publisher=Amnesty International UK (AIUK) |year=2013 |access-date=9 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112212735/http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10058 |archive-date=12 January 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and are detailed on the entry form sent out each year around four months before the ceremony.


== The ceremony ==
== The ceremony ==
The ceremony is held annually in [[central London]] and is attended by around 400 guests, including politicians, celebrities, and prominent figures in the UK media industry. The host, usually a high profile member of the UK media, conducts the ceremony and the various awards are presented by representatives from each of the judging panels. Past hosts have included journalist and broadcaster [[Nick Clarke]], journalist and news reader [[Moira Stuart]] and journalist [[Kate Adie]]. Celebrity guests presenting awards have included [[Bob Geldof]], who presented the Special Award for "Human Rights Journalism Under Threat" 2004,<ref name="Geldof001">{{cite web | url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200405210434.html | title=Ethiopia: Kifle Mulat Receives Prestigious Award From Amnesty International for Bravery | date=21 May 2004 | accessdate=8 January 2013 | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWj9IjuY | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref> won by [[Kifle Mulat]], head of the [[Ethiopian Free Press Journalists' Association]].<ref name="KifleMulat001">{{cite web |url=http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=imprimable&id_article=17855 | title=Press freedom in Ethiopia debated in London | work=[[Sudan Tribune]] | date=28 September 2006 | accessdate=8 January 2013 | author=Mahmud, Shuvra | archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6DWie7kcV | archivedate=8 January 2013}}</ref>


The ceremony is held annually in central London and is attended by around 400 guests, including politicians, celebrities, and prominent figures in the UK
==See also ==
media industry. The host, usually a high-profile member of the UK media, conducts the ceremony and the various awards are presented by representatives from each of the judging panels. Past hosts have included journalist and broadcaster [[Nick Clarke]], journalist and news reader [[Moira Stuart]], international editor of Channel 4 News [[Lindsey Hilsum]] and the BBC's [[Lyse Doucet]]. The host for the 2015 awards was the British radio and television presenter and journalist [[Anita Anand (journalist)|Anita Anand]]. Celebrity guests presenting awards have included [[Bob Geldof]], who presented the Special Award for "Human Rights Journalism Under Threat" 2004,<sup>[104]</sup> won by Kifle Mulat, head of the [[Ethiopian Free Press Journalists' Association]].<sup>[105]</sup>
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== References ==
== References ==
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10058 Amnesty Media Awards section of Amnesty International UK Section website]
* [https://amnesty-media-awards.org.uk/ Amnesty International UK Media Awards]
* [http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=11297 Previous winners list]
* [http://www.amnesty.org.uk/videos.asp?id=113 Amnesty Media Awards 2006 video]


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Amnesty International

The Amnesty International Media Awards are a unique set of awards which pay tribute to the best human rights journalism in the UK. Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK's director, said that the awards recognise the "pivotal role of the UK media industry in informing and shaping public opinion" and pays tribute to their "often dangerous work". The awards acknowledge the creativity, skills and sheer determination that it takes to get the news out in an educational and engaging way.

In particular, these awards highlight the unique relationship that exists between Amnesty International and the media. Sir Trevor McDonald explained the inextricably linked nature of this relationship: "Amnesty persists where journalism leaves off. We visit these scenes and then move on. Amnesty has the virtue of sticking with the story and making sure the truth comes out."[3]

History

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Amnesty International has always championed the importance of media in exposing human rights abuses. Amnesty itself began as a media story. In 1961, Peter Benenson, the founder of Amnesty, was so enraged that two Portuguese students were jailed for seven years for toasting to freedom during the autocratic regime of António de Oliveira Salazar, that he wrote a letter to The Observer.

His "Appeal for Amnesty" letter called for the release of six political prisoners from around the world. It began: "Open your newspapers – any day of the week – and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government. The newspaper readers feel a sickening sense of impotence. Yet if these feelings of disgust all over the world could be united into common action, something effective could be done"

Amnesty began with a sentiment expressed through the media and to celebrate the unique relationship Amnesty shares with the media industry, the Amnesty International UK Media Awards were launched in 1992.

Purpose of the awards

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Amnesty believes that by recognising excellence in human rights journalism, journalists and commissioners will be encouraged to increase the quality and quantity of their human rights coverage. Good quality media coverage is important as highlighted by Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese pro-democracy leader, at the 2011 awards ceremony because it is "through the media that the rest of the world gets to hear about what we have to undergo".[53]

In addition to honouring journalists, Lindsey Hilsum, the Channel 4 News International Editor who was the host of the 2014 awards, emphasises that the Amnesty Awards play a very important role in encouraging editors to allow journalists to cover more obscure stories that are far away and expensive. She said that when: "you point out that you won an Amnesty Award for a similar story a couple of years ago. It makes editors think that they will get some sort of kudos from this, and that it matters within the industry. So I think it’s tremendously important and I think Amnesty is doing a tremendous job by giving us these awards so that we can use them to say: 'Yes, we’ve got to carry on reporting human rights, it really matters'."[54]

However, more specifically as pointed out by Amy Mackinnon, 2012 winner of the student award and a current journalist: "The Amnesty International UK awards are a heartening reminder that, in the right hands, journalism can be a potent force for good."[50]

Awards

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Kategorien

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Categories for the 2013 awards were:

  • TV News
  • Digital
  • Eigenschaften
  • Photojournalism
  • National Newspapers
  • Radio
  • Nations & Regions
  • Gaby Rado Memorial Award
  • Documentaries
  • Student Human Rights Reporter

Gaby Rado Memorial Award

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The Gaby Rado Memorial Award, first awarded in May 2004, recognizes a journalist who has been covering national or international human rights stories in broadcast or print media for less than five years.[1][2]

The award was established with the help of the family, friends and colleagues of the journalist Gaby Rado, who was found dead in Iraq in 2003. He had been the recipient of three Amnesty Media Awards: in 1996 for a series of reports on Bosnia/Srebrenica, 1998 for coverage of the Muslim minority Uighurs in north-western China and 2002 for his "moving account of the human cost of the atrocities committed in the Balkan Wars".[3]

Student Human Rights Reporter Award

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The Student Human Rights Reporter Award was started in 2010 and first awarded in 2011. Initially the award was run with The NUS (National Union of Students) and The Mirror newspaper.[4] The award is now run in conjunction with the NUS, and The Observer.[5]

The award is open to students in further and higher education, with the prize allowing them to work with sponsors to develop real-world reporting and writing experience for two weeks. In 2013 the top prize was a fellowship with the US-based Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and a $2,000 travel grant to cover an under-reported topic of ones choice.[5]

Entry criteria

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Each year there is a call for submissions focusing on the areas of human rights work encompassed by Amnesty's mission, which is "to protect individuals wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied".[6][7][8]

Entries must have been originally published or broadcast in the year preceding the closing deadline. There is an entry fee to help Amnesty cover the cost of administering the awards. The full criteria are available in the Media Awards section of the Amnesty International UK website,[9] and are detailed on the entry form sent out each year around four months before the ceremony.

The ceremony

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The ceremony is held annually in central London and is attended by around 400 guests, including politicians, celebrities, and prominent figures in the UK media industry. The host, usually a high-profile member of the UK media, conducts the ceremony and the various awards are presented by representatives from each of the judging panels. Past hosts have included journalist and broadcaster Nick Clarke, journalist and news reader Moira Stuart, international editor of Channel 4 News Lindsey Hilsum and the BBC's Lyse Doucet. The host for the 2015 awards was the British radio and television presenter and journalist Anita Anand. Celebrity guests presenting awards have included Bob Geldof, who presented the Special Award for "Human Rights Journalism Under Threat" 2004,[104] won by Kifle Mulat, head of the Ethiopian Free Press Journalists' Association.[105]

References

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  1. ^ "Gaby Rado Award". Amnesty International UK (AIUK). 2004. Archived from the original on 17 August 2004. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  2. ^ Byrne, Ciar (27 May 2003). "Amnesty creates award in honour of Rado". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 26 August 2008.
  3. ^ "Tribute to Gaby Rado 17 January 1955–30 March 2003". Amnesty International UK (AIUK). 2003. Archived from the original on 22 June 2004. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  4. ^ "Student Human Rights Reporter of the Year Award launched". NUS News. 5 October 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Final call for entries: Student human rights reporter award a week to go". Press releases. Amnesty International UK. February 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Amnesty International magazine". Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  7. ^ "Walker Books and Amnesty International". Walker Books. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  8. ^ "Our Work". Amnesty International UK (AIUK). Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  9. ^ "Time To Enter". Amnesty International UK (AIUK). 2013. Archived from the original on 12 January 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
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