The Guardian has won two Amnesty Media Awards, announced during a virtual ceremony held yesterday (Wednesday 28 April).
The Amnesty Media Awards celebrate excellence in human rights journalism and applaud the courage and determination of journalists and editors who put their lives on the line to tell important human rights stories.
Annie Kelly, a human rights journalist and editor of The Guardian’s Human rights in focus series, won in the Best Features category for her long read on ‘Fashion’s dirty secret: how sexual assault took hold in jeans factories’. The piece revealed the abuse experienced by factory workers making Levi’s jeans in Lesotho, South Africa.
Nimra Shahid, from City, University of London, won the Student Journalism prize for her exclusive investigation in the Guardian in collaboration with David Conn, Simon Goodley and Sam Cutler, which exposed racism inside the Cabinet Office. The piece revealed how a recruit of Dominic Cummings was sacked after suggesting police use ‘live rounds’ on Black Lives Matter protesters.
A full list of the 2021 Amnesty Media Award winners are here.
