Young Human Rights Reporters of the Year
Back in February, we (The Guardian newspaper) announced the Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year competition. Learnnewsdesk (the Guardian's news website for schools) ran the competition in partnership with Amnesty International UK. We asked children aged seven to 14 to write under 250 words on a human rights story.
We received more than 450 entries to the competition from schools all over the UK. Subjects ranged from bullying to the right to speak your own language, from the injustices of child labour and poverty to child victims of detention centres and the Swiss minaret ban.
Looking at the issues through the fresh, questioning eyes of children was a sobering yet inspiring experience for the panel of judges. After a heated session, we finally agreed on the two winners and four runners-up in the primary and secondary categories.
Click here to read the winning and runners up entries.