See below for the longlist in each category. Nominees will be announced in late April and winners will be named at the annual Awards ceremony on 18 June.
See below for the longlist in each category. Nominees will be announced in late April and winners will be named at the annual Awards ceremony on 18 June.
Sahar Zand – BBC World Service English
Aliya Ram – Financial Times
Rachel Savage – Freelance
Christina Goldblum – Freelance
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo – Reuters
Gerry Shih – Associated Press
Nawal Al Maghafi – BBC Arabic
Jack Losh – Freelance
Zia Weise – Freelance
Ryan Brown – Christian Science Monitor
Cathy Otten – Freelance
Joshua Baker – BBC Panorama
56 Miles of Freedom – Ryan Brown for Runners World
The Gardeners of Kabul – BBC Persian
Gay, trans and illegal in Lebanon – BBC Pop Up/BBC Stories
Hijabi Superheroes – AJ+
Himba – BBC News
Inside the Strange Saga of a Cairo Novelist Imprisoned for Obscenity – Jonathan Guyer for Rolling Stone
Jordanian graffiti artists brighten Amman’s drab streets – Yasmine Canga-Valles for AFP
Meet the women risking their lives to save civilians in Syria – Rosie Benson and Hilal Seven for Marie Claire UK
Outpost: Rapa Nui Serenade – Story House Entertainment
Outpost: Trans in Brazil – Story House Entertainment
Stacey Dooley Face to Face with ISIS – Insight TWI, Commissioned by BBC Three
We are not the world: Inside the ‘perfect storm’of famine – IRIN News
Alex Crawford – Sky News
Clarissa Ward – CNN International
Elle Reeve – Vice UK
Fergal Keane – BBC News
Guillermo Galdos – Channel 4 News
Iona Craig – Freelance
Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura – The New York Times
Nafiseh Kohnavard – BBC Persian
Nima Elbagir – CNN International
Oliver Holmes – The Guardian
Orla Guerin – BBC News
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo – Reuters
Sponsored by Bertha Foundation
24th street – Zhiqi Pan’s Documentary Studio
Cahier Africain – Al Jazeera English
Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas – WG Film
Even When I Fall – Postcode Films and Satya Films
Namrud (Troublemaker) – Filmdelights
The other side of the wall – Intactes
Silas – Big World Cinema
Still Alive – Rayuela Productions
Thank You For The Rain – Banyak Films
To End a War – Univision & Fusion Story House Entertainment
Truth Detectives – Mareshka Kollektiv Büro
The Workers Cup – The Workers Cup Limited
Sponsored by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Al Jazeera Investigates: The Oligarchs – Al Jazeera Media Network
The Boy Who Started the Syrian War – Al Jazeera English
Children of the Farc – Al Jazeera English
Exodus: Our Journey Continues (Episode 2) – Keo Films
The Fight for Mosul – Mongoose Pictures
Going back to Pakistan – Al Jazeera English
Hunted in Sudan – Native Voice Films
ISIS and the battle for Iraq – Quicksilver Media
Our World: Sex Slaves of Al Shabaab – BBC
Ukraine’s Frontline Bakery – BBC News
Unreported World – Africa’s Perfect Storm – Quicksilver Media
Behind the Headline: The Rohingya Crisis with Ashish Joshi – Sky News
Diary of a Pakistan Atheist – BBC
Economic Partnership Agreement – Sven Kacirek and Daniel Mburu Muhuni for Pingipung Records
Last Call from Aleppo – BBC
Migration trail podcast (Episode 2) – Killing Architects
The Lost Children of ISIS – BBC World Service English
Nigeria: Shooting It Like A Woman – Culture Wise Productions
Documentary on One:Perfume Isle’s Fatal Lure – RTÉ Radio 1
Pride, Passion and Palestinian Horse – BBC
South Sudan: A Failure to Act – BBC World Service English
Welcome to Wakaliwood – Olivia Humphreys for BBC Radio 4
Yangon Renaissance: Punks, Poets and Painters – Eve Streeter for BBC Radio 4
The Inescapable Poet of Nicaragua – Tim Neville for The New York Times
Nearly There, but Never Further Away: Europe has outsourced the dirty work of border control to Libyan militias. In doing so, it has turned African migrants into commodities to be captured, sold, and traded like slaves – Peter Tinti for Foreign Policy
Trafficking and exploitation in focus ‘I hope you’re ready to get married’: in search of Vietnam’s kidnapped brides – Kate Hodal for The Guardian
Why climate change is creating a new generation of child brides – Gethin Chamberlain for Observer New Review
Hunger Eats away at Venezuala’s soul as its people struggle to survive – Emma Graham-Harrison for The Observer
The Uncounted – Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal for New York Times Magazine
On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers – Samira Shackle for mosaicscience.com (Wellcome Trust), republished by The Guardian
A Shelter With No Room For Stigma – Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times
My Husband Sold Me To A Brothel– Corinne Redfern for Elle UK
The girls being sold into sex work in Myanmar – Katie Arnold for Al Jazeera
The Men Who Rescue Mosul’s Dead – John Beck for GQ
Slaves of Isis: the long walk of the Yazidi women – Cathy Otten for The Guardian
Two Bags of Cash for Boko Haram: Freedom for the world’s hostages came at a Heavy Price – Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw for The Wall Street Journal
Sponsored by Google
DeathTolls Experience – Ali Eslami, Alllnesss
The Holy Road – dirkjanvisser photography
Huffpost Project Zero 360 Film series – Huffpost
Lagos Population – BBC News
The Lives Behind the Label – On Our Radar
Made Up to Look Beautiful, Sent out to Die – BBC
Migration Trail – Killing Architects
Mothers and Children First – Michele Bertelli, Felix Lill, Genciano Pedriel, Javier Sauras
Oil In Our Creeks – Contrast VR
The Politics of Death – The Thomson Reuters Foundation
The Secret Lives of Young IS Fighters – BBC News
Syria from Space – BBC Arabic
Brazil – Amazon Indigenous Killings – Al Jazeera
Conflict and Cholera: Yemen’s Catastrophe – BBC Arabic
DRC Child Mining – Sky News
From Tehran to Najaf, a pilgrimage fraught with danger – France 24
Helmand – BBC World Service
India’s Sanitary Pad Man – PBS
Indonesia – Papua’s Measles Outbreak – Al Jazeera
Inside South Sudan: The human cost of man-made famine – ITV News
Libya Slave Auction – CNN
Raqqa IS Escape – BBC News
Rohingya Exodus – Sky News
Papua New Guinea’s Forest Destruction – Al Jazeera
Sponsored by British Red Cross
After the deportation: How Jordan left Sudanese refugees to death and separation – 7iber
Africa’s Billion Pound Migrant Trail – BBC Panorama
East goes West: Dangerous Passage And Uncertainty In Europe Push Migrants, Refugees To Americas – Journalists for Transparency
Escape from Syria: Rania’s Odyssey – The Guardian
Exodus: Our Journey Continues (Episode 3) – Keo Films
Hope Speaks Out – BBC World Service
Inside Europe’s Refugee Crisis – AJ+
Inside Israel’s Secret Program to Get Red of African Refugees – Foreign Policy
New Neighbors – VICE UK
Refugees Got Talent – Al Jazeera
Road to Damascus: The Syrian Refugees Who Want to Go Home – The Irish Times
Rohingya’s Exodus – Sky News
The Smuggling Game – Thomson Reuters Foundation
Abrázame (Hold Me) – Jas Doyle-Pitt, National Film and Television School
The Ashes of Water – Antonia Perello, Open City Docs School, University College London
China in Ethiopia – Paul Zhou, Open City Docs School, University College London
Circle – Jayisha Patel, National Film and Television School
Coming from the mountain – Paloma Duplat Santofimio, Open City Docs School, University College London
Mercadoria – Julia Araújo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro UFRJ
Spring Hopes: Our Way To Live Free – Bernhard Wenger, Vienna Filmacademy
Surviving the City – International Reporting Program, University of British Columbia
What Remains – Natalie Allison, Open City Docs School, University College London
Woman on the Move – Yee-Liu Williams, Westminster University
Sponsored by We-Fi, the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative housed at the World Bank Group
Afghan women refugees resurrected as India’s plastic waste warriors – The Thomson Reuters Foundation
African Voices: Fearless Females – CNN
As They Fight Famine, South Sudan’s Women Won’t Wait for Handouts – Sam Mednick for NewsDeeply
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – Lisa De Bode for World Policy Journal
Is the Philippines really the best country for female social entrepreneurs? – Rina Diane Caballar for OpenDemocracy 50.50
Jordan´s Water Wise Women – Al Jazeera English
Najet Werda: Island Kitchen – Al Jazeera English
Recycling Beirut – BBC World Service English
These Hand-Embroidered Kids Products Inspired by Mexican Folk Stories are Empowering Chiapas Artisans –Christine Bolanos for Remezcla
Two Female Entrepreneurs in Nigeria – Didi Akinyelure for The BBC
The 51%, Women Africa Forum in Marrakech – France 24
The 51%, Women Africa Forum in Marrakech – France 24
Bangladesh: Daulatdia, the sex-worker town – Causette Production
Clash of Narratives – Coda Story
The Infamous Chalk Girl – Younger Productions for The Guardian
Mongolia: Born to Ride – Al Jazeera English
Nigerian Soldiers Killed My Husband – BBC News
Quipu: Calls for justice – The Guardian
The Rebel Puppeteers of Sudan – Roopa Gogineni for The New York Times Op-Docs
The Sprinter Factory – The Guardian
Thug Nation: Venezuela’s broken revolution – Financial Times
The voice of resistance in Palestine is an 11-year-old – Zoomin TV
Worth Dying For? – The Thomson Reuters Foundation
Africa’s Perfect Storm – Channel Four Television
AlHudood CIC (The Borders)– Jordan
ArmanFM – Afghanistan
Global Reporters for the Caribbean– Jamaica
Bright Magazine – Kenya
InterPress Services (Services include: Kenya Confidential, Citizen Participation in Security, Citizens Against Corruption, IPS Road Safety) – Kenya
Schemes – Ukraine
Mongabay Latam – Peru
Myanmar Now – Myanmar
Nasha Niva – Belarus
Reporter At-Large – India