DOHA: Al Jazeera Media Network has won the highest number of awards at the 18th Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards.
It won the first prize for its documentary Wukan: The Flame of Democracy, an intimate portrait of challenges a rural Chinese community faces in the midst of unprecedented political change towards becoming a fledgling democracy.
The 101 East programme bagged four first-place prizes for its Scars of Sri Lanka, Murder In God’s Name, Sectarian Divide and Unhealed Wounds Of Osh, despite there being a record 475 entries this year from across the region. 101 East also earned a Merit for Nepal’s Slave Girls.
At the 2014 New York Festivals International TV & Film Awards, It’s A Man’s World recently won a Gold UNDPI award judged by a special jury from the United Nations Department of Public Information, besides two other awards: A silver in the Best News Documentary/Special category and a bronze in the Current Affairs category.
Al Jazeera also won two gold medals for Murder In God’s Name and Everest: 60th Anniversary, two silvers for Nepal’s Slave Girls and Contagion, along with three finalist certificates.
The Peninsula
