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Last year, the German National Committee for UNICEF
selected this ‘Photo of the
Year’ by US freelancer Stephanie Sinclair showing a man
with a child
bride in Afghanistan.
UNICEF strongly condemns child marriage worldwide
as a human rights violation and a form of sexual abuse and exploitation.
Ms. Sinclair’s photo shows a wedding couple in Afghanistan.
The groom, Mohammed, is 40 years old and the bride, Ghulam, is still a child; she has just turned 11.
The image “raises awareness about a worldwide problem,” UNICEF patroness Eva Luise Köhler said at the award ceremony in Berlin. “Millions of girls are married while they are still under-age. Most of theses child brides are forever denied a self-determined life.”
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/germany_42274.html
Yesterday,
the News Photographers Association of Canada (NPAC) held a gala
to recognize the excellence represented in submissions by 123 of Canada's most
renowned photojournalists.
NPAC is pleased to announce the winners of the
second annual National Pictures of the Year (NPOY) awards competition.
More than 2,200 images from across Canada were entered in this year's
competition, representing a spectacular body of work.
A prestigious panel of
judges, including top North American photojournalists and photo editors, were
tasked with judging the entries.
WINNER
SPOT NEWS
62 entries
Sponsored by Canwest News Service
1st - Conrad Black gives the finger / David Chidley - Canadian Press
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http://npac.ca/npoy/
Top hat in arch / Bernard Brault was Reuters Photo of the Year.
You can see it on the second slide in the HELLO Magazine
category for Personality/Portrait.
Posted by mach1231
at 11:26 AM PDT
Updated: Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:49 AM PDT
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