Best reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
AWARD DATE: 1994
AWARD NAME: The Eric and Amy Burger Award 1994 (Shared)
AWARD RECIPIENT: Andrew Tkach (shared with Roger Cohen)
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: ABC News-Turning Point
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Of Human Bondage: Slavery Today”
Slavery, a practice Americans think no longer exists, comes horribly alive in this special report on how poverty and government negligence have pushed young people into servitude around the world. Tkach’s travels took him from India, where boys locked up in factories make carpets, to Brazil, where women work as prostitutes in remote gold-mining camps.
Citation for Excellence:
Gayle Young, Mary Rogers
CNN
“Female Circumcision”