EHHR Media Award winners announced
14 Nov 08, 3:22 PM | Joshua Wiese, EHHR Campaign Team
Just months ago, EHHR campaign partner Internews called on journalists and citizen journalists all around the world to submit their best work to the Every Human Has Rights Media Awards. They received 482 applications, with stories from 108 countries and on November 1st, Internews announced the 30 winners:
- Michael Duffy, Australia
- Anas Aremeyaw and Mary Fianko Akuffo, Ghana
- Mario Magalhaes, Brazil
- Raghu Karnad, India
- Paulo Motta & team, Brazil
- Fatima Baptista & team, Brazil
- Imam Shofwan, Indonesia
- Sheryl Mendez, United States
- Isabel Coello, Spain
- Peter Moss & Dorcas Mwangi, Kenya
- Ben Fundis, United States
- Benjamin Barthe, France
- Elizabeth Yarce, Colombia
- Rodrigo Tornero, Argentina
- Glenda Giron, El Salvador
- James & Jessica Schneider Chance, United States
- Al Rabih Ould Edum, Mauritania
- Najah Alosaimi, Saudi Arabia
- Tatyana Ten, Kazakhstan
- Pilirani Semu-Banda, Malawi
- Sally Chiwama, Zambia
- Svetlana Chuikina, Kazakhstan
- Bernhard Drax, United States
- Gabriel Kamlomo, Malawi
- Nazira Zhusupova, Kyrgyzstan
- Jonathan Eyler-Werve, United States
- Yaroslav Galas, Ukraine
- Fatima Monterrosa, Mexico
- Deepa Anappara, India
- Simba Russeau, Lebanon
The 30 winners are awarded an all expenses paid trip to Paris from December 5th to December 11th, 2008. On Saturday December 6th, they will attend the Every Human Has Rights campaign celebration including the Awards Ceremony. At the celebrations they will have the opportunity to meet a number of personalities from the human rights and media communities, including members of The Elders ( ...read more)
