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Anthropographia Award for Human Rights 2011
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Anthropographia Award for Human Rights 2011

Photos
16
Status
Public
Created
May 24, 2013
Updated
Feb 09, 2022
Categories
Contemporary Issues Photojournalism

Photos (16)

Clandestine © Christian Vium. Winner, Anthropographia Award 2011. "Clandestine" is an ongoing documentary project about migration from West Africa to Europe and follows the perilous journey undertaken by young, West African men, through the vast expanses of the Sahara, across the ocean and into Europe.
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Stateless Rohingya Refugees of Burma © Saiful Huq/Polaris. Honorary Mention, Anthropographia Awards 2011. Since early 2009, Saiful Huq has photographed the Rohingya people of Burma, among the most voiceless and under-reported refugee communities in the world.
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Migration linked to prostitution © Paolo Patrizi. Honorary Mention, Anthropographia Awards 2011. In "Migration Linked to Prostitution" the phenomenon of foreign women working as prostitutes, facing no hope of gaining legal status and easily transferred into criminal networks, is made visible.
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Sicarios © Javier Arcenillas. The Sicario, or contract killer, is one of the most popular and respected professions in Latin America. Throughout Guatemala, Salvador and Mexico the quantity of Sicarios are frighteningly high despite the variability of compensation, with each assassination bringing in as little as €15 and as high as €10,000.
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The Urban Cave © Andrea Star Reese. "The Urban Cave" depicts the resilience and humanity of those that are homeless. And instead of imagining the homeless as deprived, a whole spectrum of individuals is seen.
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War on the Edge of Heaven © Di Sturco Giulio/VII Mentor. In August 2008, thousands of Muslims filled the streets of Srinagar, the capital of Indian-ruled Kashmir, shouting "azadi", freedom in English, and raising the green flag of Islam. This marked a revolution in Kashmir that had been provoked by the fear of Hindu settlements being implanted in the region.
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Destino Final © Giancarlo Ceraudo. The title of this photo-essay, Destino Final, comes from the Spanish term for the final destination of an airplane trip; but for at least 5,000 opponents of the Argentine military dictatorship, it gained an additional, atrocious meaning. Their Destino Final was to be drugged and loaded onto military planes and then thrown, still alive, in the Rio de la Plata.
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Friendly Fire back to the Balkans © Terra Project. During the 1995 and 1999 wars in the Balkans, NATO forces employed depleted uranium (DU) weapons. The resulting uranium contamination is the likely cause of Balkan Syndrome, a series of cancers that hit numerous soldiers active during the campaign.
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Interrogations © Donald Weber/VII Network. "Interrogations" is about a place where justice, mercy, hope and despair are less grounded. Where these notions are manufactured, bought, bartered and sold in a sound-proofed factory and where the truth becomes both the final product and the one thing that never leaves the room.
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Tropical Gift, oil and gas in Nigeria © Christian Lutz/VU’. This series by Christian Lutz captures the closed world of those who control oil and gas in Nigeria as well as the malaise that accompanies power. By depicting the powerful in this way, Lutz bitterly lays bare the position of the dispossessed and how the abundant mineral resources of Africa are being exploited by foreigners.
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KatoeyLand - Ladyboys in Thailands Sex Industry © David Høgsholt/Reportage by Getty. Thailand is widely known for its transsexual ladyboys, or katoeys in Thai. In contradiction to most other countries and cultures, Thai society is fairly tolerant of its transgendered citizens.
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Human trafficking : Nurs journey home © Rahman Roslan. "Human Trafficking: Nur's Journey Home" is a story about an Indonesian migrant worker, Nur, who has been abused and taken advantage of while working in Malaysia over the last 5 years.
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Poor Choices © Sarah Elliott. In defiance of the criminalization of abortion and the health risks illegal abortions can pose, women in Kenya have continued to control unwanted pregnancies. Poor Choices juxtaposes the available termination methods, from the hygienic settings and overall safety of abortion
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Urban Quilombo © Sebastian Liste/Reportage by Getty. "Urban Quilombo" is an ongoing project documenting the housing deficit in Salvador de Bahia, in Northeast Brazil, where strong economic growth has benefited some but negatively impacted others.
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Kyrgyzstan © William Daniels/Panos. Born out of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the young and fragile Kyrgyz republic, commonly known as Kyrgyzstan, is undermined by poverty, corruption and chronic political instability. Freedom of expression is minimal, more than 40% of the population lives below the poverty line and one in two people regret the fall of the communist era.
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The Human cost of war on terror in Afghanistan © Zalmaï. In 2001 the world promised to rebuild Afghanistan, yet alongside the military operations and the fight against terrorism, the intervening 10 years has seen a major humanitarian disaster unfold.
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