Deadline: 1 February 2020
Nominations are now open for Human Rights Press Awards 2020 to recognise top rights-related reporting from around Asia, with the goal of increasing respect for people’s basic rights and focusing attention on threats to those freedoms.
The awards, which are now in their 24th year, are organised by The Foreign Correspondents’ Club Hong Kong, Amnesty International and the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
Categories
- Breaking News Writing (English, Chinese)
- Recognising work reported under deadline pressure with speed, accuracy and high-quality writing on a single human rights-related news event.
- Investigative Feature Writing (English, Chinese)
- Recognising investigative work that makes use of all journalistic tools to uncover or expose new details of a significant human rights issue.
- Explanatory Feature Writing (English, Chinese)
- Recognising feature writing that provides detailed insight, analysis and comprehension to explain a significant human rights issue.
- Commentary Writing (English, Chinese)
- Recognising opinion writing that demonstrates well-reasoned, authoritative and persuasive argument on a topic of human rights significance.
- Photography (Single image)
- Recognising a single image that demonstrates excellence in photography on a human rights issue.
- Photography (Series)
- Recognising a series of images demonstrating excellence in photography on a single, specific human rights issue.
- Short Video (English, Chinese)
- Recognising compelling and shareable video reporting on a human rights issue, as originally published with duration of less than five minutes.
- Documentary Video (English, Chinese)
- Recognising excellent in-depth video reporting on an issue of human rights significance, as originally published with duration exceeding five minutes.
- Audio (English, Chinese)
- Recognising radio, podcast or other audio reporting with excellence on an issue of human rights interest.
- Multimedia (English, Chinese)
- Recognising innovative, multi-format reporting on a human rights issue which makes use of two or more of the following mediums: text, photo essay, video, audio/podcast, infographic and/or interactive elements.
- Tertiary Student Writing (English, Chinese)
- Recognising excellence in written reporting by a student in tertiary education on an issue of human rights significance.
- Tertiary Student Video & Audio (English, Chinese)
- Recognising excellence in video and/or audio reporting by a student in tertiary education on an issue of human rights significance.
- People’s Choice Photo Award
- A public voting photography award. Judges will select up to 10 images from submissions to photography categories, with the winner to be chosen by public poll.
Eligibility Criteria
- Works must be:
- In English or Chinese
- Reported by professional journalists (except student categories), including freelancers, excluding corporations or activist groups
- Published or broadcast during the past calendar year, January 1 to December 31, 2019 on a professional media platform (except students)
- Reported about the Asia region, including Central Asia, excluding Middle East, Australia, New Zealand
- Related to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Each entry must cite the specific article that the work seeks to address.
- No more than three entries per journalist are accepted. In some cases, series of multiple works can constitute one entry.
- For student awards, no more than two works per entrant are accepted. Works by groups of students are accepted.
- Any work already submitted for one category cannot also be submitted into any additional category
- There is no entry fee.
For more information, visit https://humanrightspressawards.org/how-to-enter