Best entry dealing with human rights
AWARD YEAR: 1989
AWARD NAME: The Eric and Amy Burger Award 1989
RECIPIENT: Katherine Ellison
AFFILIATION: The San Jose Mercury News
HONORED WORK: Reporting on Human Rights Abuses in Mexico And Nicaragua
Ellison’s collection of stories ranges from a piece on a Mexico City physician who performed illegal abortions at his clinic to the kidnaping and sexual exploitation of Nicaraguan women by the contras.
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