Nominees

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

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

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

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

Fergal Keane – BBC News

Nima Elbagir – CNN International

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo – Reuters

Sponsored by Bertha Foundation

Even When I Fall – Postcode Films and Satya Films

The Other Side of the Wall – Intactes

Thank You For The Rain – Banyak Films

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo – Reuters

Cathy Otten – Freelance

Joshua Baker – Freelance 

Sponsored by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Exodus: Our Journey Continues (Episode 2) – Keo Films

The Fight for Mosul – Mongoose Pictures

ISIS and the battle for Iraq – Quicksilver Media

Diary of a Pakistani Atheist – BBC

Documentary on One:Perfume Isle’s Fatal Lure – RTÉ Radio 1

South Sudan: A Failure to Act – BBC World Service English

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

The Uncounted – Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal for New York Times Magazine

My Husband Sold Me To A Brothel– Corinne Redfern for Elle UK

Sponsored by Google

Made Up to Look Beautiful. Sent out to Die. – BBC

Mothers and Children First – Michele Bertelli, Felix Lill, Genciano Pedriel, Javier Sauras

The Politics of Death – The Thomson Reuters Foundation

Libya Slave Auction – CNN

India’s Sanitary Pad Man – PBS

Rohingya Exodus – Sky News

Sponsored by British Red Cross

Escape from Syria: Rania’s Odyssey – The Guardian

New Neighbors – VICE UK

Road to Damascus: The Syrian Refugees Who Want to Go Home – The Irish Times

China in Ethiopia – Paul Zhou, Open City Docs School, University College London

Circle – Jayisha Patel, National Film and Television School

What Remains – Natalie Allison, Open City Docs School, University College London

56 Miles of Freedom – Ryan Brown for Runners World

The Gardeners of Kabul – BBC Persian

Stacey Dooley Face to Face with ISIS – Insight TWI, Commissioned by BBC Three

 Quipu: Calls for justice – The Guardian

The Rebel Puppeteers of Sudan – Roopa Gogineni for The New York Times Op-Docs

Worth Dying For? – The Thomson Reuters Foundation

Sponsored by We-Fi, the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative housed at the World Bank Group

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea –Lisa De Bode for World Policy Journal

Jordan´s Water Wise Women –  Al Jazeera English

The 51%: Boosting the Number of African Women Entrepreneurs – France 24

AlHudood CIC (The Borders)– Jordan

Global Reporters for the Caribbean– Jamaica

Mongabay Latam – Peru