OPC Award Winners Share Their Stories: The Madeline Dane Ross Award 

Please join the OPC for a discussion with this year’s winner of the Madeline Dane Ross Award, Karla Zabludovsky, the Mexico bureau chief and Latin America correspondent for BuzzFeed News, who won for the entry titled "The Fight for Women’s Rights in Latin America."

The Madeline Dane Ross Award honors the year's best international reporting in the print medium or digital showing a concern for the human condition.

You can read stories from the winning submission via the following links:

• When The Horror Of Losing Your Baby Turns Into Years Behind Bars
• This Woman Had A Stillbirth And Is On Trial For It — Again
• The US Is Doing Everything It Can To Make Central America Its Southern Border
• She Wants The Workers Off Her Land. They Say It’s Their Socialist Right
• How Doctors And The Church Conspired To Stop An 11-Year-Old Girl From Having An Abortion After She Was Raped
• This Woman Performed Her Own Abortion — And Was Lucky To Survive
• They Beat Her, Cut Off Her Hair, And Covered Her With Paint. But She Was Determined Not To Let Them Win

Judges for the award wrote: "Karla Zabludovsky wrote with great passion and a sense of urgency about ordinary women in Latin America whose lives were upended by the restrictive – and sometimes deadly – reproductive health laws that are the norm in the region. Her profile of a Bolivian mayor who was savagely attacked displayed the reporter’s ability to use an extraordinary moment in a person’s life to illuminate a broader issue: in this case, the entrenched misogyny that female politicians in Latin America grapple with. Zabludosky operated under dangerous conditions, traveling across the region to report with authority and sensitivity. Her work embodies the spirit of the Madeline Dane Ross Award: deeply reported stories about the human condition."

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