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  1. 2006

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    • Year 2006
    • Photographer Arturo Rodríguez
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Spot News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 07-09-2006
    • Country Spain
    • Place Tenerife
    • Caption African immigrants wait on the quayside in the port of Los Abrigos. They will be transferred to a police station, and later to a holding center from where they will either be repatriated or sent on to the mainland. Spanish officials estimated that more than 31,000 people reached the Atlantic islands illegally during the year, a fivefold increase on 2005.
    • Year 2006
    • Photographer Moises Saman
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Newsweek
    • Category General News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 13-02-2006
    • Country Haiti
    • Place Port-au-Prince
    • Caption René Préval supporters celebrate near the Presidential Palace as unofficial word of his victory spreads. Haitians went to the polls in February, for the first elections since President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in 2004. The elections passed relatively calmly, though some violence erupted over a long delay in announcing results, and after early reports indicated that favorite René Préval had not reached the 50% of poll needed to prevent a March run-off. Later it was declared that Préval, a former ally of President Aristide, had indeed won with 51.15% of votes.
    • Year 2006
    • Photographer Arturo Rodríguez
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 03-08-2006
    • Country Spain
    • Place Tenerife
    • Caption Tourists, security forces, and Red Cross workers attend to African migrants who have landed on La Tejita beach. Tens of thousands of migrants arrived in 2006, in small wooden boats with up to 150 people on board. They faced a sea journey of some 1,000km, and many arrived starving, dehydrated, or died on the way. Some migrants are repatriated, others are sent to mainland Spain, but many end up in limbo, unable to gain work papers yet unwilling to go home.
    • Year 2006
    • Photographer Pep Bonet
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Panos Pictures
    • Category Sports Feature stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 00-08-2006
    • Country Sierra Leone
    • Place Freetown
    • Caption As Sierra Leone rebuilds itself following a ten-year-long civil war, members of the Single Leg Amputee Sports Club aim to play against other international teams, and make a living from their sport. Most of the 22 members of the club had limbs cut off by rebel forces during the war. In February 2007 the club - which had already competed in matches in Britain, Russia, and Brazil - hosted the first ever All-African Amputee Football Tournament.
    • Year 2006
    • Photographer Daniel Beltrá
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Zuma Press for Greenpeace
    • Category Contemporary Issues
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 03-03-2006
    • Country Brazil
    • Place Belterra, Brazilian Amazon
    • Caption A tree stands isolated in a soybean field on the edge of rainforest. Soy farming has overtaken cattle ranching and logging as a destroyer of rainforest. Soy is used widely in animal feed for high-density farming, as well as for human consumption. Locally, soy farming provided a source of income in what was an economically depressed area.
    • Year 2006
    • Photographer José Cendón
    • Nationality Spain
    • Category Contemporary Issues stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 14-03-2006
    • Country Burundi
    • Place Bujumbura
    • Caption In the conflict-torn Great Lakes region of Africa, where health care as a whole faces severe challenges, psychiatric resources are especially thin on the ground. People suffering post-war trauma live alongside those with a range of other mental disabilities in a handful of psychiatric hospitals. The Kamenge psychiatric center is the only one in the country that treats people with war trauma, is financed by the church, though patients contribute money for medicines and food.
    • Year 2006
    • Photographer Moises Saman
    • Nationality Spain
    • Organization / Publication Newsday
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 31-10-2004
    • Country Afghanistan
    • Place Pansjer Valley
    • Caption An Afghan coal miner washes up after a shift in a mine. Coal remains a major source of energy in Afghanistan. Five years after the American-led invasion to oust the Taliban from Afghanistan, efforts to reform the judiciary, towards religious freedom, and towards relaxing strictures on women were still underway. Life for most Afghans revolved around rebuilding the war-ravaged state.
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