Shortlist

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Outstanding Contribution to Peace

Birgitta Schülke, Arafatul Islam, Naomi Conrad

(Germany)

Torturers Deployed as UN Peacekeepers

Gunjan Sharma

(India)

Series of articles

Jatinder Kaur Tur

(India)

Screams from the Army Post. The Indian Army’s torture and murder of civilians in a restive Jammu

Lynzy Billing

(UK)

How America’s War Devastated Afghanistan’s Environment

Mahmoud Elsobky

(Egypt)

Syrian Airline, Haftar's Army profit from Human Smuggling

Mohammed Abushahma

Palestine

‘Only Those With Money Can Leave’: Gazans Pay Thousands to Escape Through Egypt

Nick Turse

USA

Series on Drone Strike Victims

Salma Abdel Aziz Bashir

Sudan

Murder on mobiles in Sudan - Families commit crimes against girls in Darfur for possessing a phone

Sarah A Topol

(USA)

The America That Americans Forget

Contribution to Civil Rights

Erica Hellerstein

(USA)

Silicon Savanna: The workers taking on Africa’s digital sweatshops

Gabriela Ramirez, Tina Xu

(Germany)

Widowed by Europe's Borders

Katie McQue

(USA)

Series on use of social media platforms to exploit and traffic children

Will Coldwell

(UK)

A Teenaged Migrant Piloted a Dinghy That Sank in the Channel. Then He Was Charged with Manslaughter

Outstanding Investigative Reporting

Alejandro Gómez Dugand, Alex Rufino, Andres Cardona, Barbara Fraser, Beatriz Jucá, Bram Ebus, Diane Sampaio, Emily Costa, Ivan Brehaut, Jaap van 't Kruis, Jeanneth Valdivieso, Jorge Benezra, Josefina Salomon, Joseph Poliszuk, Juan Torres, Juliana Rezende, Juliana Rezende, Laura Kurtzberg, Leandro Barbosa, Luiz Fernando Toledo, Luiza Toledo, María Ramírez Cabello, Mariana Rios, Mary Carmen Vieira, Mathias Felipe, Nicoll Fonseca, Pamela Huerta, Rafael Ch Duran, Ronna Rísquez, Rodrigo Pedroso, Sam Cowie, Silvana Vincenti, Sinar Alvarado, Stefano Wrobleski, Tatiana Escárraga, Wagner Almeida

(Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, UK, US, Mexico, Netherlands, Argentina)

Amazon Underworld. Crime and corruption in the shadows of the world's largest rainforest

Alicia Florez, Lara Loaiza

(Colombia)

The Informants of Tibú: How the Colombian State Unleashed a Wave of Femicides

Anastasia Austin

(Colombia)

The Gangster Governor of Zulia: The Rise and Fall of Venezuela’s Omar Prieto

Angelina de los Santos

(Uruguay)

Series: Uruguay’s missing women may have been trafficked. The state doesn't care; Predators target Uruguay’s children in care… and the state looks away

Aritra Bhattacharya, Saurabh Kumar

(India)

Series on modern slavery and organised crime networks in India

Beau Donelly, John Mooney, Connor Plunkett and Peter Barth

(Ireland/ USA)

Series on the secretive life of Irish drug cartel boss Christy Kinahan

Carey Baraka

Kenya

Inside the Kenyan Cult That Starved Itself to Death

Gloria Pallares

(Spain)

False Claims of U.N. Backing See Indigenous Groups Cede Forest Rights for Sketchy Finance

Jacob Goldberg, Leopold Salzenstein, Sarah Brown and Shaz Syed

(UK/ France/ Brazil/ India)

Revealed: Why the UN is not climate neutral

Juan Pablo Barrientos Hoyos, Miguel Ángel Estupiñán Medina

(Colombia)

The Secret Archive: The Catholic Priests Accused of Sexual Abuse in Colombia

Kemi Busari

(Nigeria)

Baba Aisha, Nigeria’s Fake ‘Doctor’ Cashing Out on Deadly Concoction That Cures Nothing

Nicolas Pelham

(UK)

The Baghdad Job: Who Was Behind History’s Biggest Bank Heist?

Sara Creta, Nour Khalil

(France/ Egypt)

Inside Egypt's Secret Scheme to Detain and Deport Thousands of Sudanese Refugees

Stanislau Ivashkevich, Olga Ratmirova, Kseniya Viaznikoutsava

(Czech Republic)

Undercover of Security Forces. Who could make millions of dollars on the migration crisis at the EU border, which claimed dozens of lives

Tom Cardoso, Robyn Doolittle, Mahima Singh and Ming Wong

(Canada)

Series: Secret Canada

Excellence in Environmental Journalism

Daniel Grossman, Dado Galdieri, Patrick Vanier, Emily Petersen

(USA/ Brazil)

A River in Flux

Fabian Federl

Brazil

An Illegal Gold Mine for Switzerland

Gerald Flynn, Andrew Ball and Vutha Srey

(Cambodia)

Series: Forests in the Furnace

Laura Aragó, Xavier Aldekoa

Spain

RIP Mare Nostrum

Marta Vidal, Diana Takacsova

Portugal

Series: Sacrifice Mountains

Peter Waldman, Momar Niang and Katarina Höije

(USA/ Senegal)

A Global Hunt for Water Profit Risks Draining Cities Dry

Tadeusz Michrowski

Poland

Catch-22 on the Baltic: The Twilight of Poland’s Coastal Fishermen

Wendy Selene Pérez Becerra, Alejandra Martinez

USA

Neglected and Exposed: Toxic air lingers in a Texas Latino community, revealing failures in state’s air monitoring system

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