One World Media Awards

Majed Neisi, Emma Ailes and the BBC 100 Women team for Songs from Inside broadcast by BBC World Service. The documentary’s unique combination of powerful audio and creative animation gave voice to women political prisoners in Teheran’s Evin prison.

Rudraneil Sengupta and Sreya Banerjee for 101 East – India’s Women Combat Fighters, broadcast by Al Jazeera. Their engaging community story features women wrestling in India, a traditionally male-dominated sport.

Sanket Jain for How Indian health-care workers use WhatsApp to save pregnant women published in MIT Technology Review. His powerful story contributed to fight dangerous medical misinformation and combat India’s high maternal mortality rate.

Khorloo Khukhnokhoi, for Female Students Revolt Against ‘Virginity Tests’ published in Global Press Journal. Her powerful story contributed to protect the rights of young girls in Mongolia.

“The Energy to Stay”, a multimedia article produced by journalist Carlotta Dotto and carried on the Al Jazeera channel, tells the inspiring story of how women in the community have transformed farming practices using solar power and sustainable irrigation techniques to combat poverty and the emigration of their menfolk from their villages on the edge of the Sahara to the cities.