Award winners

Israel's Shministim

A small but determined group of high-school students would rather do time than do military service, in a country that doesn't recognize conscientious objectors.

Canadian journalist Jennifer Hollett's Dispatches documentary on the Shministim was selected the top broadcast for 2009 by Amnesty International Canada. 

Jennifer's report begins near a section of the fence separating Israelis from the Palestinians.

Jennifer's documentary...

 

 

Dispatches Democracy Project

In December 2007 Amnesty International Canada awarded the Dispatches Democracy Project -- an hour-long special -- the broadcast media program for the year. It orignially ran December 21, 2006

The Paradox of Democracy...

 

 

Nuclear Renaissance

The drive for green energy has quietly put nuclear energy on the front burner in many countries. China is building dozens more reactors; the U.S. is approving its first new reactors since Three-Mile Island -- and countries like Canada and France are in high-pitched sales mode around the world.

This Distpatches special won a  medal at the New York Radio Awards, The Peter Gzowski Program Of The Year at the Canadian Radio And Television News Directors Association annual awards, and top radio feature at the Canadian Association Of Journalists awards -- all in the spring of 2009.

Nuclear Renaissance Part 1...

Nuclear Renaissance Part 2...
 

 

 

Afghanistan's Left-Behinds

Naheed Mustafa's documentary from September 2008 was one of three finalists for best radio feature in the Canadian Association Of Journalists annual awards in the spring of 2009.

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Jody's War

February 8, 2007

Four Canadian soldiers went through a doorway in Afghanistan last month. Only three walked away from it. Master Corporal Jody Mitic is one of 192 Canadians wounded in that conflict; he and three others are amputees.

Operation Falcon Summit was a big push against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

But to four guys in first Battalion with The Royal Canadian Regiment, it meant another dawn patrol. The job is keeping tabs on who comes and goes in the notorious Panjwaii region.

"Nothing we hadn't done before," Jody told Rick, from his bed in Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital. 

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Scrapping Over Scraps

CBC's Jennifer Westaway's piece on homelessness in Los Angeles won Amnesty International Canada's audio/video media award for 2006. She looked at how the second-largest U.S. city is, in the words of the its own mayor, the capital of homelessness in America, and why it includes so many African-Americans

Jennifer's award winner...

 

Impeach, Inform And Unite

Dispatches was one of the CBC programs honoured at the 2006 New York Radio awards. Our program of June 15, about the hardening of politics in The United States, received a silver medal.

Impeach, Inform And Unite...

The program features documentaries by the CBC's Michael Colton and Rick MacInnes-Rae.

 

The Garbage People Of Cairo

The Zabbeleen, Egyptian Coptic Christians, have built a social revolution from things most people throw out. Rhoda Metcalfe's documentary on how modernisation now threatens to force them back down the food chain won both a 2003 Canadian Association Of Journalists award and a Gabriel Award for 2003.

The Garbage People of Cairo...

 

 

Too Many Reasons To Die

June 4, 2003

The culture of death in rural Turkey. How ritual, honor and tradition conspire to kill women. Declan Hill's story of murder, suicide, Mustafa Seven, and the stoning of Shamsiye Allack won Amnesty Canada's Broadcast Media Award for 2003.

Declan's documentary...

 

Water Wars

The Middle East is staring at a water shortage. And with water, as with oil, the emergence of haves and have-nots is loading tensions on a troubled region. Margaret Evans' feature of January 29, 2003 was a Canadian Association of Journalists finalist.

Part One of Water Wars...

Part Two of Water Wars...

Jordan's late King Hussein used to say he couldn't imagine that his country would ever again go to war with Israel,"except over water." It's a commodity with a great peacetime potential. But in Israel's complicated hydro-politics, it can also be a provocation.

Part Three of Water Wars...

 

Muna's Story

January 17, 2001

Honorable Mention 2001 Amnesty International Canada Award is Vera Frankel's report on how music helped rehabilitate a child victim of torture.

Vera's dispatch...

 

Gee's Bend: The Crossing

February 14, 2001

The winner of the 2001 Amnesty International Canada's Broadcast Media Award is Bruce Edwards's story of a mostly-black and a mostly-white town on opposite sides of the Alabama River - and plans to restore a ferry that was shut down during civil-rights protests in the 60s.

The Crossing...

 

Who Killed Father One Speed?

September 5, 2001

Finalist for best radio documentary Canadian Association of Journalists 2002. Rick MacInnes-Rae's account of an eccentric Canadian priest, murdered in Jamaica in the spring of 2001.

Father One Speed...

 

The Headchoppers

May 16, 2001

Gold Medal, New York Radio Awards 2002 and finalist, CAJ 2002.  Rhoda Metcalfe's documentary on how right-wing paramilitaries take over a city in Colombia.

The Headchoppers...