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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.
Prestigious Amnesty Media Awards 2021 winners announced at virtual ceremony
‘In a year when much of the world ground to a halt, thankfully the vital work of human rights journalism continued’ - Kate Allen
The winners of Amnesty International UK’s prestigious Media Awards 2021 have been announced this evening at a virtual ceremony.
In a year when much of the rolling news was dominated by the pandemic, many of the winning pieces focussed on lesser known issues facing people and countries.
BBC Africa Eye won Best Broadcast News for its powerful investigation analysing phone footage and other open-source material relating to a huge pipeline explosion in “Lagos Inferno”.
Emily Feng is NPR s Beijing correspondent.
Feng joined NPR in February 2019. She roves around China, through its big cities and small villages, reporting on social trends as well as economic and political news coming out of Beijing. Feng contributes to NPR s newsmagazines, newscasts, podcasts, and digital platforms.
From 2017 through 2019, Feng served as a foreign correspondent for the
Financial Times. Based in Beijing, she covered a broad range of topics, including human rights, technology, and the environment. While in this position, Feng made four trips to Xinjiang under difficult reporting circumstances. During these trips, Feng reported extensively on China s detention and surveillance campaign in the western region of Xinjiang, was the first foreign reporter to uncover that China was separating Uighur children from their parents and sending them to state-run orphanages, and uncovered that China was introducing forced labor in Xinjiang s detention camps.
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