Best reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
Award Year: 1994
Award Name: The Eric and Amy Burger Award 1994 (Shared)
Recipient: Andrew Tkach (shared with Roger Cohen)
Affiliation: ABC News-Turning Point
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”