We are pleased to announce the winners of the second human rights contest for journalism students. The contest aims to promote high ethical standards and human rights values in journalism education.

The organising committee received more than 170 works, from 267 authors studying at 25 universities and one journalism study club.

The contest was initiated by the Institute of Journalism of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, the ZMINA Human Rights Centre, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine.

First, a selection panel of the editors of the Zmina.info,  the team of Real Stories Production, and UNDP experts reviewed all the works based on criteria such as professionalism, substance, genre compliance, headline, relevance to the topic of the contest, authenticity, significance and argumentation, language sensitivity, fluency, and persuasiveness.  

During the second round, the jury panel of human rights defenders and media experts suggested their top seven stories. All of the points were summed up and the best works were selected.  

“The professional level of some works is very high. It was great to see the variety of topics of social relevance covered by the participants. It is worth to mention, that among the most popular topics were the issues of gender equality and combating bullying”, commented a panel member Valeriya Mezentseva, creative director of advertising agency “Krashche”, photographer, member of National Union of Photo Artists of Ukraine, author of social photo projects.

We are happy to announce the best works:

GRAFFIC WORK

• Yuliia Krishtapovych, Maksym Bohachov – Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics;
• Anastasia Cherkashyna –­­­ Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics;
• Olha Holub, Viktoria Sarycheva – Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University;
• Anastasiya Tolchenykova ­­– Zaporizhia National University;                                                                
• Halyna Voloshchuk – Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University;
• Dariya Zahrebelna – Oles Honchar Dnipro National University

VIDEO/AUDIO WORK

• Vladyslav Pustovit, Adalina Sysak, Yelyzaveta Buriak, Vladyslav Sova, Oleksiy Kugit – Institute of Journalism of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University;
• Valeriya Pastushenko – Institute of Journalism of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University;
• Anastasiya Kozko, Yuriy-Luka Savinkh, Veronika Riepina, Mykhailo Voronov – Institute of Journalism of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University; 
• Liudmyla Savych – Institute of Journalism of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University;
• Kateryna Dunduk, Anna Lashchonova – Zaporizhia National University;
• Anna Bobrytska, Valeriya Lapko, Stanislav Shevchenko, Mariya Hromadska – Institute of Journalism of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University;
• Olha Tkach, Yulia Tkach – Institute of Journalism of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University;
• Artem Novikov, Anzhelika Muzychenko, Karina Averianova – Bohdan Khmelnytsky Cherkasy National University

ARTICLES

• Iryna Vetlianchuk – Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University
• Daria Fedorenko – Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University
• Daria Batsko – Creativity Centre for Youths and Children No. 5, Tochka Zoru (Point of View) study club, Kharkiv;
• Oleksiy Kripko – Zaporizhia National University;
• Alina Turyshyn – Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University;
• Anna Semenkiv – Volodymyr Hnatyuk Ternopil National Pedagogical University;
• Mariya Smyk – Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University;
• Kristina But, Viktoriya Chernova – Zaporizhia National University;
• Viktoriya Zabolotska – Volodymyr Hnatyuk Ternopil National Pedagogical University.

Background

The Human Rights Contest for journalism students is a joint initiative of the Institute of Journalism of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, the ZMINA Human Rights Centre, and  the Human Rights for Ukraine project, implemented by the UNDP in Ukraine with financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.