ICRC joins hands with CEJ-IBA to organize 2nd Humanitarian Reporting Awards.

KARACHI -- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is all set to organize 'Humanitarian Reporting Awards 2018' in coordination with the Centre for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) at the Institute of Business Administration.

The objective of the awards is to acknowledge, appreciate and embrace the unrecognized efforts of humanitarian reporters, who out of their comfort zones, manage to capture and pen down the humanitarian crises like violence against healthcare, disaster reporting, issues related to people with disabilities, disaster response/preparedness, and other similar issues.

The three humanitarian beat categories for which journalists' contributions will be awarded include Mainstream Broadcast (Urdu), Mainstream Print and Online (Urdu) and Mainstream Print and Online (English). Over 200 entries were received from across Pakistan which were rigorously evaluated by a panel of Pakistan's veteran journalists followed by the selection of the winning journalists.

Sharing his thoughts on the event, Kamal Siddiqi, CEJ-IBA Director, said, 'This is the second consecutive year that we have joined hands with the ICRC for...

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