AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AWARD WINNERS
AI Index: AMR 20/C12/200619 December 2006
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2004 Winners
English Media:
National Print Award: Stephanie Nolen for “The Next Rwanda? Sudan’s Neglected Nightmare” printed in The Globe and Mail on 5 June, 2004. This was the second consecutive award for Stephanie Nolen who won in 2003 for an article about Uganda.
Video/Audio Award: Christopher Grosskurth and producer Liz Noh for the audio documentary “North Korea: The Hidden Gulag” broadcast on CBC Radio “The World At Six”, 29 December, 2003.
Local/Alternative Print: No winner.
2003 Winners
English Media:
National Print Award: Stephanie Nolen for "Uganda's Child Soldiers" in The Globe and Mail, January 25, 2003
Video/Audio Award: Declan Hill for “Too Many Reasons To Die: the culture of death in rural Turkey” broadcast on Dispatches on CBC Radio One on June 4, 2003
Jacques Bourbeau was also given an “honourable mention” for a series of reports about the struggle of Monia Mazigh to secure the release of her husband Maher Arar broadcast through the year on Global TV National News
Local/ Alternative Print Award: Sue Montgomery for “ Algerians sent back -minus baby” about Canadian immigration policy in The Gazette, Montreal, October 3, 2002
French Media:
National Print Award: Laura-Julie Perrault for a series of articles about Chechnya in La Presse
Video/Audio Award: Patricio Henriquez supported by François Gué nette and Christine Martin of the production firm Macumba for “Modes de mort” about the death penalty in the United States and Japan broadcast in the Extremis series on Télé Quebec, February 27, 2003
Local Alternative Print Award: Dominique Jutras for “Une percée politique conjuguée au féminin pluriel” about the role of women in the democratization process in Cambodia in the March 2003 issue of Alternatives
2002 Awards
English Media:
National Print Award: Marcus Gee for “Evil on trial”, a series of articles in The Globe and Mail in June 2002 about human rights violators facing justice around the worldVideo Award: Patricia Naylor for “In The Line Of Fire” about the dangers for journalists covering the Israel and the Occupied Territories broadcast on Witness on CBC TV, November 28, 2001
Audio Award: Neil Sandell and Alisa Siegel for “Singing Against Darkness” about political prisoners singing to cope with the anxiety of detention broadcast on This Morning on CBC Radio One , December 21, 2001
Local / Alternative Print: Sally Armstrong for “Speaking their peace” about a group of pacifist women in the Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority in the September 2002 issue of Chatelaine
French Media:
National Print Award: Jean-François Lépine for “La paix au bout du fusil?” about the possibility of peace between Israelis and Palestinians in L’ Actualité
Video Award: Bernard Drainville for two broadcasts about Colombia on Le Point on SRC on September 23 and 24, 2002
Audio Award: Etienne Leblanc for a report on Guatemala broadcast on Sans Frontières on SRC
Local/Alternative Print Award: Genevieve Gelinas for “ Pas de CV d’Arabes ou de musulmans”
published in Alternatives in April 2002 about how certain employers after September 11th made it clear who they wanted to hire
2001 Winners
English Media:
National Print Award: Glen McGregor for “Letters from death row” in The Ottawa Citizen, August 26, 2001
Video/Audio Award: Bruce Edwards for “Gee’s bend - The Crossing” broadcast on the February 14, 2001 edition of Dispatches on CBC Radio
Vera Frankl was also given an “honourable mention” for “Munia’s Story” broadcast on Dispatches on CBC Radio on January 17, 2001 about music therapy helping victims of torture
Local/ Alternative Print Award: Stewart Bell for “Guerilla Girls”, an article about young girls forced to be soldiers in Sierra Leone, in the April 2001 edition of Homemaker’s
French Media
National Print Award: No award given
Video/Audio Award: Danny Braun for a series of reports broadcast on Dimanche Magazine on SRC in May 2001 on human rights in Tunisia
Local/ Alternative Print Award: Ibrahim Ould-Hammou for series of articles in Metro covering a wide range of issues within the mandate of Amnesty International including Afghanistand and the International Criminal Court
2000 Winners
English Media:
National Print Award: Linda Diebel for “Orphans of terror”, about children during the “dirty war” in Argentina, in the Toronto Star, February 20, 2000
Video/Audio Award: No award given
Local/ Alternative Print Award: Sally Armstrong for “Honour’s Victims” about “honour killings” in the middle east in the March 2000 issue of Chatelaine
French Media:
National Print Award: Michel Arsenault for “Sierra - la-Honte” an article about child soldiers and impunity in Sierra Leone published in L’Actualité in February 2000
Video/Audio Award: Akli Ait Abdallah for “La Tunisie vue par Toufik Ben Brik” broadcast on Sans Frontière of SRC on April 26, 2000
Local/Alternative Print: Eric Plouffe for “Subsistance de pratiques féodales au Pakistan: des hommes d’honneur?” in the June 2000 issue of Alternatives: Le Journal pour un monde différent
1999 Awards
English Media:
National Print Award: Dan Gardner for “The Trials of Aleksandr Nikitin” in The Ottawa Citizen - September 12, 1999
Video/Audio Award: Rick MacInnes-Rae for series of reports on Kosovo broadcast on CBC National Radio News from April 5 to June 18, 1999
Local/Alternative Print Award: Jacques Poitras and his team for a series of reports at the Moncton, New Brunswick bureau of the Telegraph Journal covering the Francophonie summit from 28 August to September 6 1999
French Media:
National Print Award: Marie-Claude Malboeuf for “Génocide au Rwanda. Des avocats d’ici défendent les accusés”, a series of articles about the international tribunal for Rwanda, in La Presse from August 21025, 1999
Video/ Audio Award: Pierre Duschesne for a report about refugees in the United States broadcast on Dimanche Magazine of the SRC in June 1999
Local/Alternative Print: No award given
1998 Winners
English Media:
National Print Award: Martin Regg Cohn for “New face of slavery flourishes in Sudan” in The Toronto Star on June 13, 1998
Video/Audio Award: Bob Carty for “Guatemala’s search for truth” broadcast on CBC Radio “This Morning” - April 19, 1998
Local/Alternative Print Award: Cathy Matjenyi for “Struggling in Uganda”in the June 29 issue of The Catholic Register
French Awards:
National Print Award: Michel Arsenault for “Dessine-moi une horreur” an article about child soldiers in Uganda in L’Actualité, June 16, 1998
Video/Audio Award: Pierre Duchesne for “La fracture sociale ou Chili, 25 ans après le coup d’État” broadcast on Dimanche-magazine of the SRC in September 1998
Local/ Alternative Print Award: No award given
1997 Winners
English Media:
National Print Award: Linda Diebel for “Are we now the enemy? - Human rights in Colombia” from the TheToronto Star on July 13-14, 1997
Video/Audio Award: Rick MacInnes- Rae of CBC National Radio News for a report on the return of refugees to Rwanda broadcast on November 12, 14, and 15 1996
Local/Alternative Print Award: Enzo Di Matteo for “What is Canada going to do about Castro?” in the July 24-30, 1997 edition of NOW
French Media:
National Print Award: Bruno Larose for “La dé mocratie au Myanmar, le combat de tout un peuple” printed in La Presse on June 14 1997 and in Le Soleil on May 29, 1997
Video/Audio Award: Azeb Wolde Giorghis for “Le retour de Hutus” about the massive return of refugees to Rwanda that would not end grave human rights violations in the Great Lakes region as the international community hoped, broadcast on Le Point of the SRC in February 1997
Local/Alternative Print Award: No award given
1996 Winners
English Media:
National Print Award: John Stackhouse for “Destino - East Timor’s Lost Hope” in The Globe and Mail, February 3, 1996.
Video /Audio Award: No award given.
Local/Alternative Print Award: Cathy Majtenyi for - “Products made on the backs of exploited workers” in the July 1, 1996 issue of The Catholic Register
French Media:
National Print Award: Johanne Lauzon for - “Les hommes sans droits”about human rights violations in Zaire in La Presse - December 9, 1995
Video/Audio Award: Paule Robitaille for “Le banal chauchemar des détenus russes ou Kafka version moscovite” a report on Le Point broadcast on June 6, 1996
Local/Alternative Print Award: No award given.
1995 Winners
English Media:
National Print Award: Linda Diebel for “ Mexican Land Wars” in The Toronto Star, June 25, 1995.
The jury also recognized the quality of reporting in this category by David Todd from Southam News during the period covered by the prize.
Video/Audio Award: Andrew Mitrovica, producer at CTV for a report on the possible sale of CF-5 fighter planes to Turkey, broadcast on March 17, 1995.
Local/ Alternative Print Award: Cathy Majtenyi for “Rights abuses overlooked in the name of oil” about Sudan in the August 26 issue of The Catholic Register
French Media:
National Print Award: Clément Trudel for “Une commé moration dans le silence, entrevue avec le dissident Y. Haocheng” in Le Devoir, June 3, 1995.
Video/Audio Award: The team from La Moitié du monde from RDI ,the information services of the SRC, for a broadcast on September 7, 1995 covering the rights of women in Islam
Local/Alternative Print Award: Clairandrée and Louis Cauchy 'u nom du Père et du fils: le film et la réalité in L'Aut" Journal on March 15, 1995.
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