Entries open for SUITCASE Annual Journalism Award 2024 (Armenia)

This year, materials published during the period of 5 December 2023 to 30 November 2024 can be submitted for the contest.

Topics

• The materials can cover one or more of the following groups of people and/or topics:
  • Migration processes. trends, border crossing, industry analysis.
  • Immigration flows. residence statuses, trends and integration.
  • Labor migration, emigration flows from Armenia, problems of the sector.
  • Return and reintegration.
  • Forcibly displaced people from Nagorno Karabakh. status, documentation processes, integration, industry issues.
  • Asylum seekers, refugees. their participation in the life of the host community.
  • Stateless persons.
  • RA-EU visa liberalization process.
  • Irregular migration to the EU, its prevention and consequences.

Eligible Materials 

• Printed/online articles in the press/blogs/news websites.
• Online journalistic videos.
• Online radio stories, podcasts.
• Online/printed photo galleries with human-interest story pictures.

Eligibility Criteria

• Suitcase 2024 Journalism Award is aimed at motivating high-quality thematic media coverage by encouraging the production of professional and high-quality media content on the processes relating to refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons, returnees, and migrants in Armenia, they aim to inspire journalists to apply more comprehensive, accurate and impartial approaches in covering displacement and migration topics.

Application Requirements

• The author’s (authors’) name(s) and surname(s), phone number(s), e-mail address(es).
• Date of publication
• Link to the source
• Additional justification of the authorship (if the applicant deems necessary)
• Name of the media outlet

For more Information, visit UNHCR.