In a public session held on Saturday 16th, the jury for the 43rd Vladimir Herzog Journalism Award for Amnesty and Human Rights selected the winning work for the 2021 edition.
By means of a vote, the selection committee presented and discussed the finalists´ work and announced the best in seven categories.
On Sunday, 24 October, from 5pm to 7pm there will be a Round Table Discussion with the winners and the next day, on 25 October, from 8pm to 9.30pm, the winners will participate in the award ceremony. Both events will take place online and will be transmitted on the Award´s YouTube channel.
WINNER
Zé DAssilva “Motociatas” (Biker Rally) | Diário Catarinense
HONORARY MENTION
Norberto Liberator; Marina Duarte Maidana; Aline Correia Antonini “LGBTfobia está atrelada ao processo de colonização?” (Is LGBT-phobia connected to the colonisation process?”) | Badaró magazine
WINNERS
Brenno Farias “Grito do Subúrbio” (A Cry from the Periphery) | O Globo
Tarso Sarraf; Renato Tavares; Cleo Soares; Daniel Nardin “Paradoxo amazônico: 66% dos piores municípios do Brasil estão na Amazônia” (The Amazon paradox: 66% of the worst municipalities in Brazil are in the Amazon) O Liberal
HONORARY MENTION
Mauro Pimentel “Jacarezinho” | Agence France-Presse
WINNER
João Peres; Marina Yamaoka; Victor Matioli; Victor Oliveira; Denise Matsumoto; Amanda Flora “O prato do preso” (Prisoner´s Meals) O Joio e o Trigo
HONORARY MENTION
Camila Salmazio; Lua Gatinoni; Sarah Fernandes “Crianças refugiadas discutem no Radinho BdF o direito de migrar” Child refugees discuss the right to migrate on the Radinho BdF podcast| Brasil de Fato
WINNER
Paula Leite; Fernando Sciarra; Mariana Goulart; Luciana Coelho; Marcelo Leite; Lalo de Almeida; Sylvia Colombo; Fabiano Maisonnave; Ana Estela de Sousa Pinto; Fernanda Mena; Patrícia Campos Mello; Fábio Zanini; Thiago Amâncio; Eduardo Anizelli; Gustavo Queirolo; Simon Ducroquet; Irapuan Campos; Rubens Fernando Alencar; Danilo Verpa; Rogério Pilker “Estado alterado” (Altered State)| Folha de S. Paulo
HONORARY MENTION
Gustavo Faleiros; Bram Ebus; James Alberti; Tom Laffay; Ewald Scharfenberg; Marcos David Valverde; Kate Wheeling; Sonia Bridi; G. I. Sutherland; Wilfred Leeuwin; Sam Cowie; Fabiano Villela; Mônica Reolom; Cristine Kist; Fillipi Nahar; Patricia Marcano; Laura Clisanchez; Marcelo Marques “Mercúrio, uma chaga na floresta” (Mercury, a scourge in the rainforest)| InfoAmazonia + Fantástico + Armando.info
WINNER
Vanessa Lorenzini; Laíze Câmara; Claudia Machado; Daiane Alioto; Laura Cantal; Marici Capitelli; Plinio Delphino; Marici Arruda; Sidney Turaça; Nilo Moraes; Tadeu Vicentin; Adriano Tavares; Jorio Silva; Ricardo Ramiro; Valdecy Messias; José Antonio Lippo; Jefferson Alves; Henrique Bacana; Marilia Assef; Leão Serva “Eles Matam Mulheres” (They Kill Women)| TV Cultura
HONORARY MENTION
Carlos Juliano Barros; Caue Angeli; Ana Magalhães “Parou por quê? A reforma agrária no governo Bolsonaro” (Why did it stop? Agrarian reform in the Bolsonaro government)| Repórter Brasil/UOL
WINNER
Sabrina Felipe “Café com pólvora” (Coffee with gunpowder) | The Intercept Brazil
HONORARY MENTION
Mauri König “Os filhos de Itaipu” (The children of Itaipu)| The Intercept Brazil
WINNER
Eliane Brum “Brasil, construtor de ruínas – Um olhar sobre o país, de Lula a Bolsonaro” (Brazil, builder of ruins – a look at the country from Lula to Bolsonaro) Arquipélago Editorial | RS
The Award
The Vladimir Herzog Award is hosted and organised by a commission made up of the following institutions: Brazilian Press Association – ABI; the National Federation of Journalists – FENAJ; the Union of Professional Journalists of the State of São Paulo; the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism – ABRAJI; the Brazilian Association of Interdisciplinary Studies on Communication – Intercom; the School of Communication and Art of the University of São Paulo – ECA/USP; the São Paulo State Police Ombudsman’s Office; the Justice and Peace Commission of the Archdiocese of São Paulo; Conectas Human Rights; the Federal Council of the Brazilian Bar Association; the São Paulo Chapter of the Brazilian Bar Association; the Periferia em Movimento communication group; and the Vladimir Herzog Institute.