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The 7th annual Amnesty International UK Media Awards took place on 25 June at the Park Lane Hotel, London. The awards ceremony was hosted by Melvyn Bragg.[citation needed]
David Bull[1] said at the awards;
Despite 1998 being the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights there has been no shortage of important human rights abuse stories in the last year. High-profile issues such as the massacres in Algeria and the situation in Indonesia have received significant coverage but there have also been less well-publicised abuses that still cry out for international scrutiny.[2]
In total there were 7 awards, including the introduction of the Special Award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat. The other award categories were National Print, Periodicals, Photojournalism, Radio, Television Documentary and Television News. For eligibility, the entries had to be published or transmitted between 16 April 1997 and 30 April 1998.[3][4]
The overall winner was Robert Fisk for a series of articles on Algeria published in The Independent.[2]
The Special Award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat was made to Nosa Igiebor and the staff of Tell magazine, Nigeria.
The judges[citation needed] for all categories were Nicky Campbell, Mark Lattimer,[a] Penny Smith, Polly Toynbee and Kirsty Young.
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Amnesty International yesterday accused the international community of an "abdication of responsibility" towards the Algerian people. .... In response to reports by Robert Fisk in the Independent (based partly on the testimony of former Algerian policemen, speaking out for the first time), the Algerian ambassador to London wrote this month to complain of "limited sources of information" and insufficient "corroborating evidence" for the first-hand accounts.
The slaughter of perhaps another 400 villagers in 24 hours puts the Algerian war on a Bosnian scale - but nothing, it seems, can match Algeria for animal savagery. The disembowelling of young women, the throat- slashing of babies, the mutilation of old men and women, the abduction into forced marriage of hundreds of young girls - all supposedly done in the name of Islam prompts an obvious question: can the Algerian war plumb further depths of horror?
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Current affairs. Five years after apartheid was officially announced, South Africa is still haunted by the spectre of its past. President Mandela's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was set up in 1995 to expose the former regime's murkier secrets. Michael Ignatieff talks to those involved in the struggle for justice.
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'The release of Mandela to me was the loss of my son because he should have come back with others…that hope that everybody is coming back home, the other people got happy about that, but to us it was the moment of tears because our son never came back.' Joyce Mtimkulu, Interview with Michael Ignatieff, "Getting Away with Murder", Special Correspondent Programme, BBC2. Joyce Mtimkulu is the mother of Siphiwo, who went missing in South Africa a decade and a half ago.
Documentary revealing the extent to which British business supplies the Indonesian regime, accused of torture and genocide, with training equipment and arms. Contributions from Pierre Sané (Gen. Sec. Amnesty International), Major Gen. Prabowo Subianto (Kopassus, Commander in Chief), Alfredo Rodriguez (EastTimor Resistance), José Romos-Horta (1996 Nobel Laureate), Angie Zelter (Campaign Against the Arms Trade), Dr Peter Carey (University of Oxford) and Budiman Sudjatmiko (prisoner of conscience)
Documentary concluding the two-part investigation into Britain's commercial links with the Indonesian government, despite international concern about human rights abuses.
Channel 4's entry for the Prix Italia is a documentary following the work of the forensic archaeologists in Vukovar, Croatia, led by anthropologist Bill Haglund. When the town was overrun by the Yugoslav army in 1991 the hospital was given the order to evacuate. The male patients and staff were separated from the women and children and were never seen by their families again. With the discovery of a mass grave at Vukovar, the forensic team's task was to ascertain whether the bodies were those from the hospital and to identify the individuals with only personal effects and decomposing clothing to work with. The film offers an insight into the minds of the war criminals who carried out the executions as well as examining the hopes and fears of the relatives who wait to hear the horrible truth.
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C4N has obtained exclusive evidence of what Beijing itself calls a 'pitiless crackdown' on a nascent independence movement in the mainly muslim province of Xinjiang.
CHINA: Eastern Turkestan: Xinjiang: Two camels standing grazing - TRACK FORWARDS past tents - People to & fro in market - LA MS Mosque - MS Young woman sitting with child on her lap - Rider on horseback along TLS Police standing by minibus outside building LMS Soldier on duty in traffic