And the winners are...

Internews is pleased to reveal the winner of the public prize of the Every Human Has Rights Media Awards:

Ben Fundis, Clara Long and John Drew, from the United States of America for "Border Stories"

Through a mosaic of portrayals, this report explores the US-Mexico border, the longest boundary between the developed and developing world and a politically and emotionally charged region.

These stories are an effort to promote tolerance by showcasing the humanity behind border issues.

Five other winners of special prizes received trophies at the ceremony
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- Michael Duffy (Australia): Best TV for "Nike Human Rights Investigation"

- Rodrigo Tornero (Argentina): Best Radio for "It's my body"

- Mário Magalhães & Joel Silva (Brazil): Best Print for "The anti-heroes – The underworld of sugarcane"

- Raby Idoumou Bouh (Mauritania): Best Citizen journalism for "The Youngest Mauritanian Divorcee"

- Anas Aremeyaw & Mary Fianko Akuffo (Ghana) : Best investigative report and also most courageous investigation for "Human For Sale Dons’ Exposed"

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The Winners' blog

Read the posts from the awarded journalists gathered in Paris on the Winners' blog. Recent posts:

The Voice of Darfur!

From the 8th of December to the 21st of December 2008, come and meet us to the Darfur exhbition that is installed in a UNHCR tent in the Trocadéro Gardens.

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Virtual Guantanamo

Bernhard Drax
Vanity Fair(05/01/2008)
Bernhard Drax is a Munich born and bred musician, composer and all-around radio guy in his mid 30ties, currently living in the cute little town of Pacific Grove, California.
The virtual world of Second Life offers great opportunity for activism. the virtual gitmo built in Second Life (by USC professor Peggy Weil and filmmaker Nonny dela Pena) is a great example of an immersive experience, that is unparalleled and simply cannot be re-produced in other media. Over 300 men and women are still at the US military run detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, most of them never charged of any crime...they are enemy combatants in the war on terror. January 11, 2008 marks the six-year anniversary of the arrival of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. The author visited the virtual detention center in SL and felt how it is to be utterly hopeless!
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