Amnesty International UK Media Awards 1996

Six awards were awarded in the categories: National Print; Periodicals; Photojournalism; Radio; Television Documentary; and Television News.[1]

The award ceremony, held on Wednesday 19 June 1996, was hosted by Shahnaz Pakravan.[2]

The overall winners were The News Team at ITN Channel 4 for their coverage of "War Crimes in Bosnia". The overall award was presented by Ken Wiwa.

Marc Jobst said: "I'm enormously proud to receive this award from Amnesty International because I have such respect for their work. The programme they awarded was about Dana Tep and her daughter Ramoni who were subjected to slavery under the Khmer Rouge..."[3]

Dana and Ramoni Tep received a standing ovation at the ceremony, as they bravely chose the occasion of the AIUK Press Awards to come out from years of hiding to reveal their true identities.[3]

1996 Awards

1996
Category Title Organisation Journalists Refs
National Print
Series of articles reporting the Fall of Srebrenica The Independent Robert Block [4]
[5]
Periodicals
"Death of a Village" Newsweek Rod Nordland [6][7]

Photojournalism
Photograph of an eight-year-old victim of a land mine accident in Kabul Theodore Liasi [8]
Radio
"Out of the Fire" BBC Radio 4 Marc Jobst, Shirley Pope, John Simpson

Television
Documentary
"Delta Force" A Catma Films production for Channel Four Glenn Ellis [9]
[10]
Television
News
Series of reports on
"War Crimes in Bosnia"
Channel Four News ITN Channel Four News team

See also

References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 November 1999. Retrieved 17 January 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL UNITED KINGDOM PRESS AWARDS 1996" (Press release). Amnesty International UK (AIUK). 21 June 1996. Archived from the original on 4 November 1999. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  3. "AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL UNITED KINGDOM PRESS AWARDS 1996". Amnesty International UK (AIUK). 21 June 1996. Archived from the original on 4 November 1999. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  4. Block Robert (17 July 1995). "Bodies pile up in horror of Srebrenica". The Independent.
  5. Block Robert (30 October 1995). ""I have to get rid of these enclaves" - UN chief". The Independent.
  6. "AIUK Website Media Awards 1996 - Periodical Winners - Death of a Village - Rod Nordland - Newsweek". Archived from the original on 30 May 1997. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  7. Nordland, Rod (15 April 1996). "Death Of A Village". Newsweek.
  8. "theodore liasi / #land mine victim 02". Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  9. Wiwa, Ken; Saro-Wiwa, Ken; Bishop, Kay; Ellis, Glenn (1995), Delta force, Television Trust for the Environment, OCLC 42241839, A documentary made before the judicial murder of the Nigerian writer and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa in November 1995. Delta Force tells the story of the non-violent efforts of the Ogoni people to halt 30 years of environmental damage, suffering and inequality on the Niger Delta. Delta Force opens with the arrest of Saro-Wiwa and the subsequent implementation of ”Operation Restore” in Ogoniland--the military campaign of terror waged against the Ogoni people in an attempt to suppress their environmental campaign against oil drilling by Shell International. Also includes interview excerpts with Ken Wiwa, son of Ken Saro-Wiwa.
  10. "Delta Force - Year: 1995 Production Country: Great Britain Directed by Glen Ellis Featuring Ken Saro-wiwa". BFI - British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 23 April 2013.
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