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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Kyrgyzstan

Farhad's last will

Nazira Zhusupova
Radio Most(09/03/2008)
I am a reporter for Radio Bridge community radio and a host of the "My right" weekly radio program. We cover violations of human rights in our reports and have a bi-monthly live program with our citizen journalists from various villages of Talas region, where we discuss human rights in their villages and inform villagers of the rights they are entitled to. Villagers can tell the live audiences about their problems where their rights are infringed, and the experts we invite give them counseling.
Two years ago a villager from Ozgorush, Talas region, Farhad Kangeldiev, was kidnapped and taken to Almaty in Kazakhstan. Farhad managed to escape from slavery and appalling conditions in which he was forced to live and work there. Back home, he told his parents that there are 40 more Kyrgyz workers kept in Kazakh steppes. They are beaten up, abused, some of them dying. Farhad died a month ago after all the abuse he was subjected to in slavery. This is just one example of the growing trend of trafficking in people in our region; it also shows why it is so easy for criminals to find their victims in backwater Kyrgyz villages where young people have no future. This report illustrates Articles 4 and 23 of the UDHR.
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