Previous 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, Yorkshire Television. The program graphically showed what has become known as the Santa Cruz massacre, one of many events during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor 1975 to 1999.
Past winners have included ITN Channel Four News team, BBC's Panorama, Al Jazeera English, O Dia Newspaper, Brazil, Marielos Monzón of Guatemala, Ignacio Gómez of Columbia and Tell Magazine from Nigeria.
The winner of 2012 were:
| 2012 | ||||
| Category | Title | Organisation | Journalists | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Documentary | Sri Lanka's Killing Fields | ITN Productions for Channel 4 |
Callum Macrae, Chris Shaw, Jon Snow |
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| Digital media | Deaths in custody: a case to answer |
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism |
Iain Overton, Angus Stickler, Dan Bell, Charlie Mole |
|
| Gaby Rado Memorial Award |
Horror in Homs | Channel 4 News | Mani | |
| International TV and Radio |
Bahrain: shouting in the dark | Al Jazeera English | Jon Blair, May Ying Welsh |
|
| Magazines: Consumer | Nature's defenders | New Internationalist | Vanessa Baird | |
| Magazines: Newspaper supplements |
The rape of men | Observer Magazine | Will Storr | |
| National Newspapers | We live in fear of a massacre | The Sunday Times | Marie Colvin | |
| Nations and Regions | Torso in the Thames | ITV London Tonight | Ronke Phillips, Faye Nickolds |
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| Photojournalism | A place to stay - Dale Farm | The Times | Mary Turner | |
| Radio | Victoria Derbyshire in Guantanamo Bay |
BBC Radio 5 Live | Victoria Derbyshire, Louisa Compton |
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| TV News | Undercover in Homs | BBC Newsnight | Sue Lloyd-Roberts, Amanda Gunn |
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| Student Human Rights Reporter Award |
The curious case of John Oguchuckwu |
The Glasgow Guardian | Amy Mackinnon | |
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