Amnesty Media Awards 2026 Shortlist

At a time when journalism has never been more important, Amnesty International UK is delighted to honour the brilliant and brave work of journalists who use their voices and platforms to speak truth to power and shine a light on injustice around the world – often while putting their own lives at risk. The winners will be announced at a ceremony taking place at the BFI Southbank on Wednesday 6 May 2026.

Broadcast Feature

Al Jazeera English
Fault Lines – Kids Under Fire

Al Jazeera English
The Palestine Laboratory

BBC
Surviving Syria’s Prisons

BBC Africa Eye
Blood Parliament

BBC from 22 Summers Unscripted
Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis

BBC Two
Louis Theroux: The Settlers

BBC Global Women / BBC World Service
Taken at Birth: The Greenlandic families in Denmark fighting to get their children back

Declassified UK
Britain’s Gaza Spy Flight Scandal

ITV
Breaking Ranks: Inside Israels War

ITV
Our Land: Israel’s Other War

ITV
State of War: Fighting the Narcos

Broadcast Investigation

Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera Investigates – Myanmar: War with the Junta

Basement Films/Channel 4
Gaza: Doctors under attack

BBC Eye Investigations
Inside Darfur: Siege and Massacres

BBC Panorama
Special Forces: I Saw War Crimes

BBC World Service
Shot in the head & chest: Investigating the killings of children in Gaza”

BBC Eye Investigations and Lighthouse Reports
Syria’s Stolen Children

Channel 4
Groomed: A National Scandal

Financial Times
‘Film me!’ Russia’s executions of Ukrainian POWs point to a policy

ITV News
Britain’s Learning Disability Scandal

ITV
Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War

Middle East Eye
Soaked in Blood: Investigating Gaza’s Food Distribution Sites

Broadcast News

BBC News
Afghanistan Women & Children Suffer After US Aid Cuts

BBC News/BBC World Service
Haiti: The Worst Place in the World to be a Woman

BBC World Service
Battle for Bangladesh

Channel 4 News
How a Palestinian Farmer Was Shot Defending His Home

Channel 4 News
Inside Gaza: The Anatomy of an Airstrike

Channel 4 News
Make Money or Die: Inside Myanmar’s Multi-Billion Dollar Scam Industry

CNN
CNN finds evidence Tanzanian police killed protesters

ITV News
Exclusive Gaza aerial footage reveals full extent of devastation

Sky News
Inside Bangladesh’s Secret Torture Chambers

Sky News
The voices of Al Fashir

The Gaby Rado Award for New Journalist

Allegra Goodwin
CNN

Ben van der Merwe
Sky News

Billy Stockwell
The i Paper

Caolán Magee
Al Jazeera

Georgie Styles
Freelance

Hugh Sheehan
BBC Sounds Audio Lab and Reduced Listening

Jamaima Afridi
New Humanist

Lilia Sebouai
The Telegraph

Malak Tantesh
The Guardian

Neggeen Sadid
Freelance

Rowena De Silva
Airwars

Nations and Regions*

BBC Look North
Groomed teenager ‘married’ abuser

BBC Northern Ireland
Mums in Crisis

BBC Northern Ireland
Syria to Omagh: Lost & Missing

BBC One North West
Shock Treatment: The Gay Therapy Scandal

BBC Scotland
Kids on the Psychiatric Ward

ITV News Anglia
Hidden Fights – The Human Cost of the SEND Tribunal

MyLondon
Broken Homes

Newyddion S4C
Neil Foden Investigation

The Ferret
Far-right agitators stand accused of stirring up trouble at asylum hotel protests”

The Herald and Herald on Sunday
Court action bid on Scotland’s routine human rights law breaches

* Made possible thanks to players of the Postcode Lottery.

Photojournalism

Alessio Mamo
Mafqoodeen – Uncovering Iraq, The Guardian

Bel Trew
Death Sentence: the real costs of aid cuts on HIV, The Independent

Cinzia Canneri
Women’s Bodies as Battlefields, The Observer

Enas Tantesh
Two years of displacement and destruction in Gaza, The Guardian

Facundo Arrizabalaga
Broken Homes, MyLondon

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
The M23 Conquest of Eastern Congo, Getty Images

Mads Nissen
The Beast – A Dangerous Journey Toward the American Dream, The Observer

María Ximena Borrazás Cataldo
The Scars of the War, The Guardian

Olivia Acland
Survivors of Assad’s prisons battle trauma and disease, The Telegraph

Tommy Trenchard
The Stilfontein Massacre, 1843 Magazine

Radio and Podcasts

Al Jazeera English
36 July: Uprising in Bangladesh

BBC Eye Investigations
Death in Dubai

BBC File on 4 Investigates
Abused for Our Food

BBC Radio 4
One Week in Gaza and Four Months in Gaza

BBC Radio 4/The History Podcast
Half-Life

File on 4 Investigates, BBC Radio 4
‘Locked Up’

RTÉ
First Conviction

Smoke Trail Productions
Boy Wasted

The Guardian
Missing in the Amazon

The Observer
Brute force: domestic abuse in the ranks

Written Feature

BBC News
Voice Notes from a Gaza Hospital

BBC World Service – BBC Global Woman and BBC Amharic Service
The Forgotten War Destroying Women’s Lives

CNN
Education in ruins: Gaza’s children on losing their right to learn

CNN
How traffickers deep in the Sahara are extorting ransom payments from refugees’ families

Financial Times
The dark truth behind supermarket tuna

Saturday Magazine, The Guardian
‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’

Sunday Times Magazine
Flipping Hell – How slaves ended up working at McDonald’s

The Guardian
Death by aid cuts: how a decision in the US led to the loss of a mother in Yemen

The Guardian
”Russia is targeting us deliberately’: how attacks on maternity hospitals fuelled a birth-rate crisis in Ukraine

The Guardian, ARIJ, Papertrail Media
The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich

The Sunday Times
Inside Haiti: where women are raped on the street and gangs rule

The Times
Inside Sudan’s Forgotten War

Written Investigation

Bellingcat
Building on Ruins: The Russification of Mariupol, One Apartment Block at a Time

CNN and Lighthouse Reports
Bodies in the canals: Satellite imagery, whistleblowers and videos reveal ethnically targeted killings by Sudan’s army

Financial Times
FT Series: Deportation dollars

Liberty Investigates / Prospect
How Palantir infiltrated Britain

Politico
Patrick Pouyanné’s Deadly Gamble

Reuters
Assad-era conspiracy to hide thousands of dead turned Syria’s remote desert into a mass grave

Reuters
Congo’s hidden victims: Child survivors recount gang rape, sexual slavery by M23 forces

The Guardian
Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women

The Guardian, +972 Magazine, Local Call
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war

The Guardian, ARIJ, Papertrail Media
The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich

Written News

BBC World Service Arabic
‘A living hell’: Sudanese women face rape and abuse in Libya

Financial Times
Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’

Novara Media
Foreign Office Bosses Have a Suggestion for Staff With Gaza Conscience: Resign

Novara Media
Police Officers Admit They Feel ‘Ashamed’ Enforcing ‘Mad’ Palestine Action Ban’

The Guardian
‘People will die’: alarm as Trump’s DEI rollback hits anti-trafficking efforts

The Guardian
Child bride faces execution in Iran unless she pays £80,000 in ‘blood money’

The Guardian
Disability cuts will have “devastating” impact on women’s dignity and health

The Guardian
Israeli military used 500lb bomb in strike on Gaza cafe, fragments reveal

The Guardian
The Mathematics of Starvation – How Israel Caused a Famine in Gaza

The i Paper
How Ukrainian military press gangs are grabbing citizens off the street

The Observer
No food, no pay, no liberty: marooned sailors plead with shipowners to be rescued

The Sunday Times
Syria returns to bloodshed: ‘I’m a mother who saw her sons killed’