Best entry dealing with human rights
Award Year: 1991
Award Name: The Eric and Amy Burger Award
Award Recipient: Dinah Lee, Amy Borrus, Joyce Barnathan and team (shared with John Quinones and Robert Campos)
Award Recipient Affiliation: Business Week
Award Honored Work: “China’s Ugly Export Secret: Prison Labor”
ABC’s dramatic story graphically portrayed the near “slave labor conditions” faced by laborers, including children, engaged in harvesting sugar cane in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. It also showed that the governments of those countries do nothing to prevent the exploitation and that American companies are knowingly involved. Out of a number of terrific stories on the subject, the Business Week team produced the first series of reports on the Chinese use of prisoners to manufacture a vast array of products. The tremendously thorough reporting and undercover
work made this probing examination stand out.
Citation for Excellence:
CNN
“Special Report”
on worldwide population control problems.