Beyond Borders Media Awards announces 2010 nominees

WINNIPEG, Sept. 28 /CNW/ - Beyond Borders, Canada's global voice against child sexual exploitation, announced the nominees in its annual, national, bilingual media awards today.

The awards program, in its eighth year, honours journalists and documentary makers for exceptional coverage of issues related to child sexual exploitation.

"The media play an important role in terms of the work that Beyond Borders does," states event co-chair, Deborah Zanke. "Journalists and documentary makers help to raise awareness, point out areas of the justice and social services system that aren't working to protect children and motivate the public and politicians to take action on issues related to the sexual abuse of children."

The 2010 nominees are as follows:

Print (English)

1. Elaine O'Conner, Mean Streets in Maisonneuve Magazine, Spring 2010
2. Laura Czekaj, Child Sex Slaves: Fighting a world of abuse, terror, Ottawasun.com, September 17, 2009.
3. Cynthia Vukets, In a small Kenyan village, girls are speaking up, The Toronto Review, May 31, 2010.
4. Jessica Leeder, From her dolls to her husband in a single day, The Globe and Mail, September 22, 2009.
5. Jessica Leeder, Fighting back against sex crimes, The Globe and Mail, March 29, 2010.
6. Tamara Cherry, No way out; Falling through the cracks; The story of Eve (series), The Toronto Sun, October - November 2009.
7. Tamara Cherry, Eve's dark past revealed/Ex-Sex slave makes plea, The Toronto Sun, May 3-4, 2010.
8. Tamara Cherry, It's not prostitution. It's human trafficking/Woman forced into life of stripping, The Toronto Sun, June 20-21, 2010.
9. David Pugliese, Sex abuse of Afghan boys; Sex abuse and silence exposed; Military Investigation of sex abuse doesn't ring true (series), Ottawa Citizen, September 19-21 2009.
10. Sarah Sacheli, Sex abuse scandal tests Catholics' faith, Windsor Star, April 17, 2010.
11. Sarah Sacheli, Abusive mom gets 3 1/2 years/Sexual Abuse by mothers dark secret, Windsor Star, January 30, 2010.
12. Darcy Wintonyk, Ugandan child mothers pick up the pieces, CTV.ca, June 30, 2010.
13. Jason Warick, Policing predators online (series), The Star Phoenix, January 16,18,19, 2010.
14. Daphne Bramham, Nobody should have to view this stuff; Graphic proof why child-sex tourists should be hit hard, The Vancouver Sun, July 23, July 27, 2010.
15. Daphne Bramham, Polygamy finally goes to court, The Vancouver Sun, Sept. 24, Oct. 23, July 17, 2010.
16. Don Lajoie, Fallen Angels, The Windsor Star, December 12-17, 2010
17. Tu Thanh Ha, How the church tried to silence a scandal; Pembroke diocese told of sex abuse in 1963, lawsuit alleges, The Globe and Mail, April 9-10, 2010.

Print (French)  

1. Kathleen Frenette, Voleurs d'enfance, Journal de Québec, April 25, May 16, 17, 2010

Electronic (English)

1. Lara O'Brien, Anna Maria Tremonti, Aaron Brindle, Pam Bertrand, Beyond Belief: Colm O'Gorman, The Current, CBC Radio One, June 23, 2010.
2. Mary Lynk, Anna Maria Tremonti, Dick Miller, Pam Bertrand, Shane Earl, The Current, CBC Radio One, October 6, 2009.
3. Lara O'Brien, Anna Maria Tremonti, Joan Webber, Pam Bertrand, Bishop's Man: Patrick Wall, The Current, CBC Radio One, April, 2010.
4. Judy Trinh, Paula Waddell, Child Prostitution, CBC News Ottawa, June 7-8, 2010
5. Bob McKeown, Liz Rosch, Scott Anderson, The Fall and Rise of Theo Fleury, The Fifth Estate, CBC Television, Oct.16, 2009
6. Olin Quam, Think Again, Pearson College, Aug.1, 2010

Electronic (French)

1. Hélène Choquette, Avenue zéro, ONF, Radio-Canada, March 25, 2010.
2. Wendy Champagne, Bas! Au-delà du Red Light, Canal Vie, May 4, 6, 9, 2010
3. Léo Kalinda, Le Célibat des prêtres, Radio-Canada, May 2, 2010
4. Julie Vaillancourt, Laurent Richard, Pier Gagné, L'incurable, Radio-Canada Télévision, April 6, 2010
5. Annie Desrochers, La traite de jeunes: une dangereuse réalité, Ados-Radio, Radio-Canada, March 11, 2010

Student

1. Priya Tandon, Girlie bars and everything in between, The Manitoban (University of Manitoba), September 9, 2009.

The awards ceremony honouring the winners will take place in Winnipeg on November 19 (To commemorate Universal Children's Day - November 20).

More information about the awards can be found at www.beyondborders.org.

About Beyond Borders

Beyond Borders is a national non-profit organization that advances the rights of children to be free from sexual exploitation. It is the Canadian representative of ECPAT International (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes) operating in 75 countries around the world.

For further information:

Deborah Zanke - [phone]