The prizes amount to over $50,000 with $10,000 each for the main categories

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will present the prizes to the winners

The Awards Are:

1. The Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize - sponsored by the Alexander Bodini Foundation, for written media (including online media) coverage of the UN and its agencies and their work.

Elizabeth Neuffer, the Boston Globe bureau chief at the United Nations, died while on assignment in Baghdad in 2003. 

2. The Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize - for broadcast journalism coverage of the UN, and its agencies, jointly sponsored by the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations and Antena-3 of Spain.

Ricardo Ortega, formerly the New York correspondent for Antena 3 TV of Spain, was one of the leading Spanish journalists of his generation who was shot dead on mission in Haiti in 2004. 

3. The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation/UNCA Global Prize - for coverage of Climate Change.

The foundation promotes sustainable and equitable management of natural resources and places the individual at the center of its projects. It encourages the implementation of innovative and ethical solutions in three main categories: climate change, biodiversity, and water.

4. The United Nations Foundation prize - for any entry in any medium that best covers the humanitarian and development aspects of the U.N. and its agencies.

The UN Foundation is an advocate for the UN and a platform for connecting people, ideas and resources to help the United Nations solve global problems.

Work in print, Internet, radio or TV between August 2011 to August 2012, covering the U.N. and its agencies in whatever capacity will be considered. The judges will look for entries with impact, insight and originality, and will take into account the courage, assiduity and investigative work of the journalist

All Questions regarding Awards:

Call the UNCA Office: +1 (212) 963-7137

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UNCA Awards Committee:

Giampaolo Pioli (UNCA President), J. Tuyet Nguyen (Awards Event Chairman), Margaret Besheer (UNCA Treasurer), Richard Roth (Master of Ceremony).