Al Jazeera wins Amnesty International award for Colorado River reporting
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Journalists Megan O’Toole and Jillian Kestler-D’Amours win award for report on Indigenous fight for water rights in US.
Al Jazeera English online has been awarded a top prize at the 29th annual Amnesty International Canada Media Awards for a report on the Indigenous struggle for water rights in the southwestern United States.
Amnesty International Canada announced on Thursday that Al Jazeera’s long-form interactive feature Crisis on the Colorado: The Indigenous fight for water rights won the 2023-2024 mixed media award.
The awards “honour excellence in human rights reporting by Canada-based journalists and by Canadian journalists reporting abroad”.
Published in April 2023, Crisis on the Colorado explored how Indigenous communities that rely on the sprawling Colorado River have asserted their water rights in the face of record drought worsened by climate change.
The push comes as authorities at all levels have been forced to consider water cuts as they try to stave off the collapse of the river, a 2,330km (1,450-mile) span that starts in the US state of Colorado and ends in Mexico, and supplies water to more than 40 million people.
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