It was a rare evening out for some of the Global development team at last week’s Amnesty International journalism awards.
Mark Townsend (above left, with Paul Townsend of the Financial Times) was there to pick up the written investigation prize for this detailed report on the violent truth behind Italy’s “migrant reduction”, and Kiana Hayeri joined online to accept the prize for her remarkable project in which she interviewed and photographed 100 Afghan women about their radically changed lives under the Taliban.
It was a good moment for our team to have Mark and Kiana’s work recognised. It has never been so crucial that these stories reach an international audience, to document how – alongside necessary coverage of the daily machine gun-like fire of onslaughts on truth by Trump and Netanyahu and their ilk – other outrages go on. It seems quality journalism has never been more important in the part it plays in chronicling attacks on human rights and the suffering that brings.
Underlining this point, also joining the ceremony online to receive an award for his outstanding contribution to human rights journalism was Wael Al-Dahdouh, Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Gaza. Kaamil Ahmed talked to Wael afterwards for this piece, in which he spoke of the terrible toll reporting the war had taken on him, personally and professionally. Tracy McVeigh, editor, Global development
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