Our judges have made their decision to select three nominees in each category for the One World Media Awards. Celebrating the best journalism from the global south, more than 60 judges from 18 countries have chosen this year’s Shortlist from more than 500 entries.
Our judges have looked for overall merit of a story alongside criteria like relevance substance and impact, among others. The decisions weren’t easy. But the results are now in!
Presenting the Shortlist:
The One World Media Awards are made possible thanks to the generous support of our partners:
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Afghanistan Civilian Casualties – Vice News
Auto Repair Shop Jump-Starts Ugandan Child Soldiers into New Lives – The Thomson Reuters Foundation
Central African Republic Child Brides – Vice News
Cubs of the Caliphate – Sky News
In Limbo: ‘Isis Children’ in Prison – Mail & Guardian
IS Fighter Orphans in Libya – BBC News
Lost Generation – Vice News
A Man Made War Paid for by Women and Children – The GroundTruth Project
The Palestinian Kids Fighting Israel’s Occupation – AJ+
South Sudan’s Child Soldiers – Sky News
The Vulnerability Contest – News Deeply
Yemen Air-Strikes: Made in America – CNN
Sponsored by Google
China’s Muslim Internment Camps – BBC News
Coding Like a Girl – Al Jazeera English
El Helicoide: The Shopping Mall that Became a Torture Prison – BBC World Service
The Final Frontier: Who Owns the Oceans and their Hidden Treasures? – The Thomson Reuters Foundation
How Nigeria’s Fear of Child ‘Witchcraft’ Ruins Young Lives – Al Jazeera Media Network, Digital Division
The Last Generation – The GroundTruth Project/ Frontline PBS
Made in America: Shrapnel in Yemen ties US Bombs to Civilian Deaths – CNN
Sex and the Sugar Daddy – BBC Africa Eye
Stealing the Kingdom: The Sacking of Wau Shilluk – African Defence Review
Yemen’s Skies of Terror – Al Jazeera Media Network, Digital Division
Supported by EBU
“The 77 Percent”: Music and Politics in Africa – DW
Colorism in South Sudan – Al Jazeera, The Take
From the Ground Up – BBC World Service
Gaza Outside Broadcast – BBC Today Programme
Indian Rave – BBC Radio 4
Mongolian Desert, Middle of the Summer – Czech Radio
Nigeria’s Patient Prisoners – BBC World Service
Niger’s Trafficking Trade – BBC Today Programme
The Number One Ladies’ Landmine Agency – BBC World Service
Poking the Establishment – CTVC
Singing for Survival in Cucuta – BBC World Service
A US Corporation Wants to Raze a Gold-Rich Mountain in Peru. Meet the Woman who Stands in its Way – PRI’s The World
Sponsored by British Red Cross
Another News Story – Wislocki Films Ltd
Britain’s Refugee Children – Channel 4
Dangerous Exit: Who Controls How Syrians in Lebanon Go Home – Refugees Deeply
Destination Europe – IRIN
Escaping Europe – BBC News
Faultlines – No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border – Al Jazeera English
Fleeing Hate: LQBTQ+ Migrants on the Caravan – NowThis Media
From Refugee to Commodity – The Weather Channel
From the Killing Fields to Exile Without Hope – The National
Rohingya One Year – VICE News
Tanzania Granted the Largest-Ever Mass Citizenship to Refugees. Then What? – The Christian Science Monitor
Unreported World: Venezuela’s Lost Children – Channel 4
Venezuela’s Refugee Crisis – The Financial Times
Sponsored by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
After the Fall – VICE
Crossing the Line: Colombia’s Rebels – TRT World
Democracy Now! Special: Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara—A Rare Look Inside Africa’s Last Colony – Democracy Now!
Hotspots: On The Frontline- In The DRC, Ukraine and Libya – Sky
Journey in the Danger Zone: Iraq – BBC
Myanmar’s Killing Fields – Channel 4
Nigeria’s Stolen Daughters – BBC Two
Sweet Sweet Codeine – BBC Africa Eye
The UN Sex Abuse Scandal – Channel 4
Where Childhood Died – RT
Who Cares About Israel’s Thai Workers? – BBC News
Witness – Back to Kinshasa – Al Jazeera English
Sponsored by Google News Initiative
For websites, interactive online features, apps, interactive documentaries and other digital technologies that use creative and innovative techniques and content to extend knowledge and understanding of, and engagement with, the global south.
The $5 Forests | 101 East, Al Jazeera | Drew Ambrose
Favela vs. Covid | Outriders | Priscila Pacheco & Alexandre de Maio.
Living in the Unknown | Al Jazeera | Viktorija Mickute
Motherhood in Crisis | Al Jazeera | Laurence Ivil, Alicia Prager & Samuel Iwunze
No Epicentro | Lupa | Natália leal
Ophir & The Colonial Syndrome | Olivier Pollet & Alexandre Berman
TESTRIS – The Positive Rate Game | Outriders | Lola García-Ajofrín
The Continent | Mail & Guardian | Simon Allison & Simon Mkina
The price women and girls are paying for Ethiopia’s war | Devex | Sara Jerving
Violated in quarantine | Factual | Ketzalli Rosas Cervantes
Sponsored by the European Investment Bank
For media, including broadcast, digital, audio, film or print, that explores women’s entrepreneurship in the global south. Reporting can showcase stories of successful female entrepreneurs, the challenges women face in trying to grow their businesses, and/or the critical role that women entrepreneurs play in economic development by boosting growth and creating jobs.
COVID-19 and Irregular Employment | Masaha Podcast | Rana Daoud
‘Everything I do is for my son’: how mothers in Bangladesh are starting their own businesses | The Guardian | Thaslima Begum
How Women-led Agribusinesses are Boosting Nutrition in Africa | IPS | Busani Bafana
I Am Belmaya | Dartmouth Films | Sue Carpenter & Belmaya Nepali
My hands are my tractor: Urban gardens take root in Johannesburg | Thomson Reuters Foundation News | Kim Harrisberg
Smart Money | BBC Africa | Joice Etutu
The Energy to Stay: Senegal’s village of women | Al Jazeera | Carlotta Dotto
The female Indian entrepreneurs who have overcome gender barriers | Financial Times | Amy Kazmin
Women Make Science: Ecuador’s Hidden Treasure | Al Jazeera | Ana Naomi De Sousa
Women who feed Lagos: How lack of education robs fish traders of booming digital market | The Cable | Taiwo Adebulu
Sponsored by British Red Cross
For a piece of media, including broadcast, online, audio, print or film, that covers refugee and asylum-seeker issues by telling compelling stories that generate empathy, understanding and are reported on accurately and fairly.
Coronavirus Crisis: Europe’s Migrant Camps | Panorama, BBC | Said Reza Adib
Dafa Metti (Difficult) | Tal Amiran
Death in the Alps | Unreported World, Channel 4 | Tom Cross
Inside the smuggler’s warehouse: Africa’s 21st-century slave trade | Irish Times | Sally Hayden
Rohingya Brides Thought They Were Fleeing Violence. Then They Met Their Grooms | Vice | Pari Saikia
Surviving in the ruins of Moria | Al Jazeera English | Florian Elabdi
Teranga – We Dance to Forget | BBC Africa Eye | Sophia Seymour, Daisy Squires & Lou Marillier
What happens to migrants forcibly returned to Libya? | The New Humanitarian | Mat Nashed
When Can We Really Rest? | California Sunday Magazine | Nadja Drost
You’ll die at sea: The story of a migrant poet | Middle East Eye | Maria Pullicino
Sponsored by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
For a factual journalistic programme broadcast on television or online, either standalone or one episode from a series, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.
Agricultoras Violentadas | Record TV | Mariana Ferrari
Assam: My country, my home | 101 East, Al Jazeera | Mandakini Gahlot
A Thousand Cuts | Frontline PBS | Ramona S. Diaz
China Undercover | Frontline PBS | Robin Barnwell
Fiji’s High Tide | SBS Australia | Evan Williams
O Meu Sangre é da Cor do Teu | Rádio e Televisão de Portugal | Mafalda Gameiro
Return from Isis: A Family’s Story | Panorama, BBC | Joshua Baker
Self-harm: The Pandemic of Youth | RT Documentary Channel | Vitaly Buzuev
The Schools that Chain Boys | BBC News Arabic | Jess Kelly & Fath Al-Rahman Al-Hamdani
The Search for Assad’s Executioners | Al Jazeera | Mahmoud Al-Ken
Sponsored by WaterBear Network
For a piece of media, including broadcast, online, audio, print or film, that explores the relationship between people and the planet. In particular, we are interested in these areas: changing cities, the climate crisis, energy, environmental health, environmental justice, food, water, wildlife and zero waste.
Amazon Undercover | Pindorama Filmes | Estêvão Ciavatta
Black Beaches | ARIJ network | Eman Mounir
Mercury, chasing the quicksilver | InfoAmazonia | Bram Ebus
Our Mothers’ Land | The Gecko Project & Mongabay | Leo Plunkett
Silent killer: Oil pollution continues to kill Nigerians in Delta region | International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) | Kelechukwu Iruoma & Ruth Olurounbi
South Africa’s Dirty Secret: Coal | Thomson Reuters Foundation | Nicky Milne
The Linesman | Encompass Films | Dominic Gill
The Plastic Nile | Sky Documentaries and Sky News | Alex Crawford
The race to save Polesia, Europe’s secret Amazon | The Guardian | Phoebe Weston
The Trees That Bleed: How rosewood is smuggled from Senegal into Gambia | BBC Africa Eye | Umaru Fofana
Sponsored by Google News Initiative
For websites, interactive online features, apps, interactive documentaries and other digital technologies that use creative and innovative techniques and content to extend knowledge and understanding of, and engagement with, the global south.
Climate Migrant Megacity | Sky | Katerina Vittozzi
Inaccessible Cities | Al Jazeera Digital & AJ Contrast | Viktorija Mickute
KUSUNDA | NowHere Media | Gayatri Parameswaran
Maharaja’s children. A brave bunch in India | Nil Desperandum Foundation | Tomasz Stankiewicz
Seven Grams | Lucid Realities | Karim Ben Khelifa
The Global Gig Workers | Rest of World | Peter Guest and Youyou Zhou
Vaccinegate: The Power Connections | Salud con lupa | Fabiola Torres
Visa to Nowhere | Outriders | Jakub Górnicki
Visualising the Afghan War | Al Jazeera Digital | Mohammed Haddad
What’s Happening in Myanmar | NHK | Masaru Zenke
Sponsored by WaterBear Network
For a piece of media, including broadcast, online, audio, print or film, that explores the relationship between people and the planet. In particular, we are interested in these areas: changing cities, the climate crisis, energy, environmental health, environmental justice, food, water, wildlife and zero waste.
Colombia’s indigenous form ‘mini-governments’ to save Amazon | Thomson Reuters Foundation | Anastasia Moloney
Crude bargain: How an unknown Canadian firm with no drilling tools scored a major oil deal in Guyana | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Chris Arsenault
Electric vehicles in the Philippines: a mottled green solution | Eco-Business | Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez
Ethiopian Nomads struggle for survival on the climate crisis frontline | ITN/Channel 4 News | Jamal Osman
Floating Swarm | Voice of America | Jaime Moreno
Junkyard of the West | Outriders | Tadeusz Michrowski
Nicaragua’s Forgotten Deforestation Crisis | OCCRP, Confidencial, Onda Local, InfoLibre, La Voz de Guanacaste | Sasha Chavkin
Oceans Inc. | The Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC) | Multiple journalists
The Return | The Guardian | Eriberto Gualinga
Troops | Freelance/fiftytwo | Monika Mondal
Sponsored by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
For a factual journalistic programme broadcast on television or online, either standalone or one episode from a series, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.
Afghanistan: Inside The Taliban’s Emirate | France 24 | Catherine Norris Trent, Sonia Ghezali and Romeo Langlois
Black Axe: Nigeria’s Mafia Cult | BBC Africa Eye | Peter Macjob
Blood on our Side: Mexico’s Forensic Investigators | Muzungu Producciones | Rodrigo Hernandez & Elpida Nikou
Selling surrogates: wombs for hire in Georgia | Channel 4 News | Anja Popp
Haftar’s Russian Mercenaries: Inside the Wagner Group | BBC News Arabic | Nader Ibrahim
Love in Sao Paulo’s Crackland – Episode 1 (O Amor Na Cracolandia-Parte 1) | Record TV | Aldrich Kanashiro
Morocco’s Youtube Migrants | BBC | Stephanie Hegarty and Katie Arnold
Undercover in Africa’s Secret State | Freelance/Channel 4 / PBS Frontline | Evan Williams
Under the Shadow of Iran | BBC | Nafiseh Kohnavard
Child sexual abuse in Pakistan: Zainab’s Legacy | Freelance/Al Jazeera English | Owen Kean
Sponsored by the European Investment Bank
For media, including broadcast, digital, audio, film or print, that explores women’s solutions in the global south. Reporting can showcase stories of successful initiatives by women or for women, of any scale, that help to tackle challenges faced by women and society at large: solutions that address the impact of climate change and protect the environment, solutions that increase access to education and health care, or solutions that empower women.
101 East: The Widows of Everest | Al Jazeera English | Sreya Banerjee and Rojita Adhikari
On the White Nile: A South Sudan businesswoman | Al Jazeera English | Akuol de Mabior
An unlikely band of water defenders fights chronic shortages in El Salvador | Freelance/National Geographic | Anna-Catherine Brigida
Barn Short Docs: The Care Box designed to save lives | Neolight Productions Limited | Jake Sirma
HER – Women in Asia| DW Deutsche Welle | Bettina Thoma-Schade
I am a Leader of my House | The New Humanitarian | Sabiha Faiz, Fahmida Azim, Sara Wong and Irwin Loy
Lebanese Women Fight Period Poverty with eco-friendly alternatives | Egab/The New Humanitarian | Zainab Chamoun
Meet Maggie, the Malawian Musician turned Lockdown Hero | Evening Standard | Thoko Chikondi
Shadow Pandemic: Covid 19, Women and Girls in Nigeria | The Republic | Cynthia Igodo
Women’s Rights and the Pandemic | Global Press Journal | Khorloo Khukhnokhoi
Sponsored by WaterBear Network
For a piece of media, including broadcast, online, audio, print or film, that explores the relationship between people and the planet. In particular, we are interested in these areas: changing cities, the climate crisis, energy, environmental health, environmental justice, food, water, wildlife and zero waste.
A toxic trash site in Kenya is making women sick | The Fuller Project | Louise Donovan & Moraa Obiria
Climate change is forcing Kenyan women to leave their homes behind | gal-dem & Unearthed | Michelle Buky
Fears of ‘subprime’ carbon assets stall crypto rainforest mission | Thomson Reuters Foundation | Fabio Teixeira
‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coal mine that ate an Indian village | Freelance/The Guardian | Ankur Paliwal
Healthy mangroves build a resilient community in the Philippines’ Palawan | Mongabay | Keith Anthony S. Fabro
Identity Crisis | Freelance/FiftyTwo | Deepa Padmanaban
In the Mekong Delta, sand mining means lost homes and fortunes | Thanh Nien Newspaper and Mekong Eye | Lê Đình Tuyển
The Airstrips of Destruction | Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting | Hyury Potter
The extraordinary benefits of a house made from mud | Freelance/National Geographic | Peter Schwartzstein
The Gulf: Killer Heat | BBC News | Ceci Golding & Pramod Acharya
Sponsored by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
For a factual journalistic programme broadcast on television or online, either standalone or one episode from a series, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.
BBC Panorama – SAS Death Squads Exposed | BBC | Hannah O’Grady
Fault Lines – The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh | Al Jazeera English | Kavitha Chekuru
Modern Day Slaves of Thailand | Open Secrets | Fat Stone Films & Vice | Naruemon Chaingam
Myanmar: The Forgotten Revolution | Evan Williams Productions & Channel 4 | Katie Arnold
Teen Mums: Pregnant and Trapped | Channel 4 News | Anja Popp
The cost of being an atheist | BBC Africa Digital | Yemisi Adegoke
Ukraine: Life under attack | Basement Films & Channel 4 | Mani Benchelah and Patrick Tombola
Under Poisoned Skies | BBC News Arabic | Jess Kell and Owen Pinnell
Untold: Inside The Shein Machine | Zandland & Channel 4 | Ally Roberts
Women at war: Afghanistan | Sky News | Alex Crawford
Sponsored by the European Investment Bank
For media, including broadcast, digital, audio, film or print, that explores women’s solutions in the global south. Reporting can showcase stories of girls and women who successfully contributed to tackle challenges faced by women and society at large: solutions to improve women’s financial and economic inclusion, solutions that address the impact of climate change and protect the environment, solutions that increase access to education and health care, or solutions that empower girls and women.
Supported by Plan International
Africa’s first chief heat officer | Freelance/CNN | Amelia Hemphill
A Sense of Community – Iztapalapa | Al Jazeera English | Drew Ambrose
BBC People Fixing the World – Jobs for girls | BBC | Farhana Haider
For this Somali refugee, beauty has a purpose | National Geographic | Neha Wadekar
How Indian health-care workers use WhatsApp to save pregnant women | Freelance/MIT Technology Review | Sanket Jain
How one small Syrian NGO is tackling period poverty, one pad at a time | The New Humanitarian & Egab | Safaa Sallal
India’s women are building an alternative to toxic masculinity | Freelance/Reasons To Be Cheerful | Safina Nabi
La pantalla andina (The Andean Screen) | Carmina Balaguer
Mujeres contra las rejas (Women against bars) | Proceso Magazine & International Women’s Media Foundation | Neldy San Martín, journalist
Witness – Yuli | Al Jazeera English | Ip Kar-Man
Sponsored by
For media that explores women’s solutions in the global south. The Award recognises empowering stories of girls and women who successfully tackled challenges faced by women and society at large, such as: women’s financial and economic inclusion, addressing the impact of the climate crisis, increasing access to education, healthcare or democracy. Entries can be in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
‘Women bear the biggest brunt of climate change’ says climate scientist Susan Chomba | Guardian/The Fuller Project | Neha Wadekar
101 East – India’s Women Combat Fighters | Al Jazeera | Rudraneil Sengupta & Sreya Banerjee
The Indigenous Women’s Brigade in the Amazon | Deutsche Welles | Nádia Pontes
Power of Mama: the women firefighters of West Borneo | BBC | Ria Utari
Dhye Dreams | Express News Pakistan | Shanta Nepali
Rise of the ‘mother boss’: how female miners are taking control in DRC | The Guardian | Mélanie Gouby
Money clubs help displaced Nigerians create their own safety nets | The New Humanitarian | Zubaida Baba Ibrahim
Why Samsung factory workers in Vietnam are becoming beauticians | Rest of World | Lam Le
Healing the body, the land and the territory: the commitment of the women of Agua Caliente to manage their health | Zona Docs | Mariana Mora
Breaking taboos: Papuan women embrace collective care to end period poverty | Project Multatuli | Narriswari
(formerly the Television Documentary Award)
Supported by
For a film, programme or investigation that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises impact, exclusive content and considered analysis of a current affairs issue. Entries can include a specific episode of a strand or a topical, news-led documentary.
Coal Slaves | Record TV | Rodrigo Favero Carvalho De Castro
Fault Line – The Confession | Al Jazeera English | Jeremy Raff
Hunting Russia’s Lost Boys | Channel 4 | Vladimir Sevrinovsky
The Zuko NonXuba Story | Carte Blanche | Tarryn Crossman
The Body In The Woods | The Independent | Bel Trew
Ukraine’s Stolen Children | Renegade Stories | Shahida Tulaganova
Inside Iran: the fight continues | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Martin Elhage Smiley
Lawless: Gangs of Haiti | CGTN America / MediaLinks TV LLC | Jason Motlagh
The Last Hospital | Sky News | Stuart Ramsay
The Trap: India’s Deadliest Scam | BBC | Poonam Agarwal
(formerly the Television Documentary Award)
Supported by
For a film, programme or investigation that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises impact, exclusive content and considered analysis of a current affairs issue. Entries can include a specific episode of a strand or a topical, news-led documentary.
Fault Lines – The Confession | Al Jazeera English | Jeremy Raff
Hunting Russia’s Lost Boys | Channel 4 | Vladimir Sevrinovsky
Inside Iran: the fight continues | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Martin Elhage Smiley
Special Mention: The Last Hospital | Sky News | Stuart Ramsay
Sponsored by
For media that explores women’s solutions in the global south. The Award recognises empowering stories of girls and women who successfully tackled challenges faced by women and society at large, such as: women’s financial and economic inclusion, addressing the impact of the climate crisis, increasing access to education, healthcare or democracy. Entries can be in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Breaking taboos: Papuan women embrace collective care to end period poverty | Project Multatuli | Narriswari
101 East – India’s Women Combat Fighters | Al Jazeera | Rudraneil Sengupta & Sreya Banerjee
Rise of the ‘mother boss’: how female miners are taking control in DRC | The Guardian | Mélanie Gouby
