Shortlist

Unburying Syria’s Disappeared: Truth as the Road to Peace

Series on the conflict in Cameroon's English-speaking regions

Stolen By a Map: The Haunting History of Lebanon’s Lost Villages

Focus on War Crimes Verdicts Leaves Victims Feeling Disappointed and Bosnia Spent Millions on War Monuments in Bosnia During Decade Lost for Reparations

Series or articles

The Long Road to Justice for Sexual War Crimes

Airstrike cover-up: Katsina government helped Nigerian Air Force conceal civilian deaths

She Regrets Her Past With ISIS. Now She’s Reclaiming Her Future

Forgotten and sentenced to die: Sudan’s women caught between war

The Forgotten

Peacekeeper sex abuse rife in Central African Republic as survivors stay silent

Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World's Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site

Decathlon profits from Uyghur forced labour in China // Decathlon, the hard labour textile factory in Bangladesh

The Dark World of Illegal Adoption in Egypt

The fate of the indigenous O'Hongana Manyawa around Tesla’s supply chain on Halmahera

Does a Dalit’s life have no value?’: The murder of a teenage girl in India

Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers

Untested: America's rape kit backlog was a national scandal. A decade later, problems persist.

Kidneys for cash: Inside a global organ trafficking network

Bhaskar’s big expose on child trafficking

Bomb the area, gas the tunnels: Israel’s unbridled war on Gaza’s underground; ‘Order from Amazon’: How tech giants are storing mass data for Israel’s war; Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft

The wood mafia in the Mayan jungle

The last drops of our water’: how a mine left some of Peru’s poorest high and dry

Series of articles

The Magic in the Mud: Sandpipers’ Migration Superfood

The Alaskan island on the front lines of the Arctic scramble

The huge US toxic fire shrouded in secrecy: ‘I taste oil in my mouth’; Guardian investigation fuels class-action lawsuit against petro giant

This used to be a beautiful place’: how the US became the world’s biggest fossil fuel state

The Forced Sterilization of India’s Sugarcane Farmworkers

Operation Atacama: The $1m cactus heist that led to a smuggler's downfall

Series of articles

An invisible threat lurking in the water is slowly destroying these women’s lives

A $60 Billion-a-Year Climate Solution Is Sitting in Our Junk Drawers