Monday, December 12, 2011

The laureates of the EU Lorenzo Natali Prize 2011

17 winners from all around the world were awarded the Lorenzo Natali Prize for outstanding journalistic work covering issues of development, human rights and democracy during the award ceremony in Brussels tonight. They have been chosen from more than 1300 participants.
The top winner is a Danish TV journalist Tom Heinemann who has authored a documentary debunking the myth of micro-credit.
The subjects covered by other Lorenzo Natali Prize 2011 winners are corrective rape and the double life of homosexuals in Africa, India’s sex ratios, trafficking of children, witchcraft, female genital mutilation, slavery, etc.
The Prize is in its 20th year. Through this Prize, the European Commission aims to reward journalists reporting in often challenging circumstances, celebrating the ways in which journalism can be a seed of positive change, the inspiration for development, and the engine for democracy and human rights.


The list of laureates
http://lorenzonataliprize.eu/category/winners/
The official site of the Lorenzo Natali Prize 
http://lorenzonataliprize.eu/
An article on the Prize:
http://enpi-info.eu/eastportal/news/latest/27404/Media-for-democracy,-development-and-human-rights:-Lorenzo-Natali-Prize-rewards-17-outstanding-journalists

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