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In 1924, our founder Eglantyne Jebb drafted the first-EVER declaration of the Rights of the Child, BOLDLY asserting that every child has rights.

A century later, her words remain just as vital. In tribute to her legacy, and to mark the 100th anniversary of the League of Nations’ adoption of the Declaration, Save the Children proudly launched its Global Media Awards in 2024 to celebrate excellence in journalism that champions child rights.

Now in its second year, Save the Children’s Global Media Awards 2025 continue to honour professional journalists from around the world whose storytelling has played a pivotal role in uncovering, highlighting, and addressing critical child rights issues. We aim to showcase the power of media to drive awareness, inspire action, and spark positive change for children everywhere.

This year, the awards will recognize outstanding work across multiple categories, including:

• Print (online and print)
• Broadcast
• Radio / Podcast
• Photography

Finalists for the Global Media Awards 2025 will be announced in October. An independent jury of esteemed journalists will then review the shortlisted entries to determine the winners. The winners will be revealed during a virtual awards ceremony on World Children’s Day, 20 November 2025.

2025 Winners :

• 🏆WRITTEN NEWS:  Republik and WAV Recherchekollektiv won the award for best Written News Coverage on child rights for “Camps on Samos: Detention for children, paid for by Switzerland.” This investigative article that exposed catastrophic conditions for unaccompanied refugee and migrant children living in the “Safe Area” of Samos, Greece, where children were effectively detained for months with no adequate medical care, legal support, or sanitation. The article put political pressure on authorities to intervene. The Samos “Safe Area,” was then temporarily closed and re-organised and the children were moved to safer facilities.
• 🏆BROADCAST: The Guardian won the award for best Broadcast Coverage on child rights for “The Gaza Girl whose Face was ‘Ripped Off’ by an Israeli Missile Strike”.   This short film follows 13-year-old Mazyouna, a young girl from Gaza who lost the right side of her jaw in an Israeli attack that killed her brother and sister, and documents her journey to the U.S. for emergency surgery while highlighting the wider crisis of medical access in Gaza.
• 🏆RADIO/PDDCAST: BBC Radio 4 won the award for best Radio/Podcast Coverage on child rights for “County Lines: Their World”. The powerful podcast episode investigates how criminal networks exploit vulnerable children across the UK through drug trafficking. Healthcare workers, police staff, and social services professionals report the documentary has fundamentally shifted their understanding of youth exploitation—recognising exploited children not as offenders, but as victims in need of support. The podcast has also become embedded into professional training across multiple sectors.
• 🏆PHOTOGRAPHY: AFP won best Photography Coverage on child rights for “Colombia’s desert north feels the pain of Trump’s cuts”. This photo series focuses on Colombia’s La Guajira desert, where aid cuts have deepened the hunger and poverty crisis for Indigenous and migrant families. Through testimonies from mothers, migrants, and aid workers, it exposed the human cost of political decisions. Widely republished across Latin America and beyond, the story amplified local voices and fuelled debates on international policy, migration, and cooperation.

2025 Finalists :

Written News 

• 7IBER Electronic Magazine: “Child Agricultural Laborers: A Stolen Childhood Under the Sun”  
• BBC News Mundo: “‘No matter what age you are, you need a family’: People who decide to adopt older children that other parents do not want”  
• Daraj Media: “Gaza’s Miscarriages: Generations Are Killed in Mothers’ Wombs”   
• El Observador: “Living on High Alert: When Children Become “Guarantees” in Drug Houses, Mules on Their Way to School, and Survivors Amid Gunfire”  
• Republik: “Camps on Samos: Detention for children, paid for by Switzerland”  

BROADCAST: 

• Africa Uncensored: “The Vanishing Kids of Mukuru” 
• MBC: “Zero Period Climate Crisis” 
• News Central TV: “Education Struggles in Makoko” 
• The Guardian: “The Gaza Girl whose Face was ‘Ripped Off’ by an Israeli Missile Strike” 
• TRT World: “Bangladesh Turns Tide on Climate Change with Floating Schools” 

RADIO / PODCAST 

• BBC Radio 4- “County Lines”  
• BBC Radio 4: “Missing Pieces: The Lesbian Mothers Scandal”  
• Rádio Novelo: “Listen to the Children”  
• SKY FM: “False Start: After the Fire: Learning Under Trees in Dormaa Akwamu”  
• Splash 105.5FM: “Period Poverty, Silence, and School Bells: The Hidden Struggle of Oyo’s Girls”   

PHOTOGRAPHY: 

• AFP: “Colombia’s Desert North Feels the Pain of Trump’s Cuts” 
• Armenian Weekly: “Childhood Under the Fire” 
• European Pressphoto Agency / EPA: “A Doll in Her Arms, a War on Her Childhood”

Past Winners:

2024

🏆 Best Local/Regional Coverage: BBC “Panorama: Undercover School: Cruelty in the Classroom” – by Ruth Evans, Sasha Hinde, Oliver Newlan and Hayley Clarke – a shocking investigative documentary exposing bullying and abuse at a school for children with special educational needs in the UK. Following the broadcast, the school was closed, five staff members were arrested, and the Department for Education launched an investigation.

🏆 Best International/Wire Coverage: The Guardian “How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet” – by Romita Saluja – a powerful investigation into the exploitation of child labour in India’s sandstone industry. Following publication, the article sparked legal investigation against a multinational, and became a central reference in a roundtable conference in London, urging businesses to address child labour in their supply chains.