The Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) was established in 1982 to recognize and celebrate the highest standards of journalistic quality and integrity in Asia. Today, the SOPA Awards for Editorial Excellence are regarded as the gold standard against which Asia’s best journalists and publishers are measured. There are several categories and one of them is: Excellence in Human Rights Reporting, honoring the work that demonstrates high standards of reporting on a human rights topic of significance
The 2018 finalists include:
Reuters, Duterte’s war falters
The Associated Press, The Rohingya Exodus
The New York Times, A Humanitarian Crisis Unfolds
Frontier Myanmar, “We eat the same rice”
The Phnom Penh Post, The sky became white’
This Week In Asia, Rohingya: nowhere like home.
[The 2017 winners were:
- Agence France-Presse (published on Yahoo), AFP Exclusive: Taliban use child sex slaves to kill Afghan police (Award for Excellence)
- Reuters, Duterte’s War
- The New York Times, Australia Human Rights Reporting (Honorable Mention)
- ABS-CBN Corp., War On Drugs: The Unheard Voices (Award for Excellence)
- Channel News Asia, For India’s Stolen Children, a Journey Into Slavery
- IRIN, Myanmar says Rohingya rape and abuse allegations “made-up”, despite mounting evidence (Honorable Mention)]
https://www.sopawards.com/awards/award-categories/
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Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 