List of Amnesty International UK Media Awards winners

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Amnesty International
FoundedJuly 1961 by Peter Benenson in Britain
TypeNon-profit
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    General secretariat in London
ServicesProtecting human rights
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Members
More than 3 million members and supporters [1]
Key people
 Salil Shetty (Secretary-General)
Website www.amnesty.org
Remarks It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. [2]

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.

Contents

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

CategoryTitleJournalistOrganisation
2002
National newspaper10-year-old Qwadrat takes his final painful breathAnton Antonowicz Daily Mirror
PeriodicalThe school of assassins that the US army has tried to hideChristine Toomey The Sunday Times Magazine
PhotojournalismWar crimes in Kosovo Gary Knight Newsweek International
Radio Crossing Continents - Israel/PalestineLucy Ash BBC Radio 4
Television documentaryKids behind bars Kate Blewett / Brian Woods True Vision Productions for the BBC
Television newsSlobodan Milosevic War Crimes Trial Gaby Rado ITN / Channel 4 News
2003
National newspaperInside the world of the Palestinian suicide bomber; The informer who could not escape; On patrol with the killer Israel dreads Tallat Hussain Dawn News
PeriodicalLand of the damnedAnn McFerran The Sunday Times Magazine
PhotojournalismLooking Aids in the faceGideon Mendel Corbis / Guardian Weekend
Radio Today - Sale of illegal landmines Andrew Gilligan BBC Radio 4
Television documentary Panorama - A licence to murderJohn Ware BBC
Television newsGuinea: sex for food Sorious Samura Insight News Television / Channel 4 News / CNN
Global human rights journalismInvisible casualties of warBelma Becirbasic / Dzenana SecicStart magazine, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Human rights journalism under threat Hassan Bility Analyst newspaper, Liberia
Regional mediaSeries of articles on refugees and asylum seekersAlexander Robertson / Sam Bartlett / Liam McDougall The Big Issue, Scotland
2004
National newspaperThe People The Law Forgot Tallat Hussain Dawn News
PeriodicalThe Bitterest BetrayalVikram Dodd / Tania Branigan Guardian Weekend Magazine
PhotojournalismGhosts of the ApocalypsePhilip Blenkinsop The Sunday Times Magazine
Radio Crossing Continents - IndiaLucy Ash BBC Radio 4
Television documentaryThis World - Access To EvilOlenka Frenkiel BBC
Television newsEquatorial Guinea Lindsey Hilsum Channel 4 News
Global human rights journalismSlaves of the 21st CenturyRaphael Gomide O Dia, Brazil
Human rights journalism under threatKifle MulatLissane Hizeb (Voice of the People), Ethiopia
Regional mediaAsylum Seeking ChildrenLorna Martin The Herald, Scotland
Gaby Rado awardReports from Democratic Republic of CongoJames Astill The Guardian / The Observer / Newsnight
2005
National newspaperLondon - the world in one cityLeo Benedictus The Guardian
PeriodicalAmerica's Gulag Stephen Grey New Statesman
PhotojournalismFlames of DesperationNicola Kurtz The Sunday Times Magazine
RadioBhopalSusan Roberts BBC Radio 4
Television documentary Panorama - The New Killing FieldsDarren Kemp / Hilary Andersson BBC
Television newsFalluja Forensics Tara Sutton Channel 4 News Independents' Fund / Guardian Films
Human rights journalism under threatMarielos Monzón Guatemala
Regional mediaFascism in Russia Billy Briggs The Herald Magazine on Saturday, Scotland
Gaby Rado awardAli A Fadhil Channel 4 News Independents' Fund / Guardian Films
2006
National newspaperIraq special reportPeter Beaumont The Observer
PeriodicalBeasts of preyChristine Toomey The Sunday Times Magazine
PhotojournalismRwanda - facing the virusStuart FreedmanPositive Lives / Panos
RadioReports from rural ChinaRupert Wingfield Hayes / Alistair Burnett BBC Radio 4
Television documentaryAsylumAmanda Richardson / Peter Gordon / Edwina Vardey / Nicola Clemens BBC
Television newsConflict - tin: Congo's tin soldiersElizabeth C Jones / Jonathan Miller / Mike Radford Channel 4 News / ITN
Human rights journalism under threatStanislav Dmitrievskiy / Oksana Chelysheva Russia
Regional mediaTales from the edge, the Glasgow girlsLindsey Hill / Simon Parsons / Rhiannon Brady / Emma Green McInnes BBC Scotland
Gaby Rado awardHuman rights in the Former Soviet UnionNick Paton Walsh The Guardian
2007
National newspaperCongo's Tragedy Johann Hari The Independent
PeriodicalThe Big StealJonathan Watts Guardian Weekend Magazine
PhotojournalismAcid attacks in BangladeshAndrew TestaFoto 8 Magazine
RadioDispatches from Gaza Alan Johnston BBC News Gaza Bureau
Television documentaryExecution of a Teenage GirlPaul Hamann / Monica Garnsey / Lucy Hetherington BBC / Wild Pictures
Television newsChina Organ TransplantsRupert Wingfield-Hayes / Bessie Du / Al Go BBC Ten O'Clock News
Human rights journalism under threatDina MezaRevistazo, Honduras
Regional mediaHauntedLucy Adams The Herald Magazine, Scotland
Gaby Rado awardTea 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 newspaperIraqi interpreters series Deborah Haynes The Times
PeriodicalNewspaper 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
PhotojournalismCongo unrest Cédric Gerbehaye Newsweek / Agence Vu
Radio Today - Where there's muck: Mike Thomson in the CongoPascale 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 newsToo 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 mediaCongo to MotherwellFiona Walker / Dorothy Parker / Matt Pinder / Hilary McCusker-Thompson BBC Scotland
Gaby Rado awardAfrica's secret - the men, women and children 'vanished' in the war on terrorXan Rice The Guardian
International television and radioThe lost tribe - Secret army of the CIAEunice Lau / Stephanie Scawen / Tricia Tan / Tony Birtley Al Jazeera English
New media"Honour killing" sparks fears of new Iraqi conflictSahar Al-Haideri Institute for War and Peace Reporting
2009
Gaby Rado memorial awardAleem Maqbool BBC News
International Television & RadioWorld's Untold Stories: The Forgotten People Dan Rivers , Kit Swartz , Sheri England , Anthony Whaley CNN
Nations & RegionsThe Fight for Justice Lucy Adams The Herald Magazine
National NewspapersMI5 and the Torture Chambers of Pakistan Ian Cobain The Guardian
New MediaKenya: The Cry of Blood - Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances [4] Julian Assange WikiLeaks
Periodicals - Consumer MagazinesThe 'No Place for Children' campaign Sir Al Aynsley Green , Gillian Slovo , Alice O'Keefe New Statesman
Periodicals - Newspaper SupplementsWhy do the Italians Hate Us? Dan McDougall , Robin Hammond The Observer Magazine
PhotojournalismNo One Much Cares Eugene Richards Newsweek
RadioForgotten: The Central African Republic Edward Main , Ceri Thomas , Mike Thomson BBC Radio 4 - Today Programme
Television Documentary & DocudramaDispatches: 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 NewsKiwanja Massacre: Congo Ben De Pear , Jonathan Miller , Stuart Webb , Robert Chamwami Channel 4 News / ITN
2010
Special Award 2010All the independent media workers of Burma
Gaby Rado Memorial Award Jamal Osman Channel 4 News
International Television & RadioPeople and Power: Ingushetia - A Second Chechnya? Antony Butts , Dom Rotheroe , Mike Chamberlain Al Jazeera
Nations & RegionsDiscrimination: Migrant Workers Rental Block Guy Lynn , Mark Hayman , David Weller BBC Look North
National NewspapersThe Dark Side of Dubai Johann Hari The Independent
Digital MediaChinese PetitionersJamil Anderlini, Edward Cheng Financial Times
Periodicals - Consumer MagazinesCongo: The Horror Ed Caesar , Susan Schulman GQ
Periodicals - Newspaper SupplementsThe Return of the Bloody Diamonds Dan McDougall , Robin Hammond Live Magazine
PhotojournalismToxic Jeans Robin Hammond Sunday Times
RadioZimbabwe: What Mugabe Didn't Tell Us Mike Thomson , Edward Prendeville , Ceri Thomas BBC Radio 4 - Today Programme
Television Documentary & DocudramaBurma 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 NewsThe End of Sri Lanka's War Jonathan Miller , Nick Paton Walsh , Nevine Mabro , Bessie Du , Matt Jasper , Ben de Pear Channel 4 News / ITN

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References

  1. ↑ "Who we are". Amnesty International. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
  2. ↑ "History – The Meaning of the Amnesty Candle". Amnesty International. Archived from the original on 18 June 2008. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ "'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.
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