Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing
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Established 2015 by the Christopher G Moore Foundation and awarded annually, the Prize supports & promotes the values of #humanrights & literary excellence in non-fiction.
Prosecuting the Powerful by @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social turns the lens toward accountability itself, tracing the difficult, dangerous pursuit of justice against those who wield authority without restraint. #2025MoorePrize shortlist #HumanRights
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Prosecuting the Powerful by @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social turns the lens toward accountability itself, tracing the difficult, dangerous pursuit of justice against those who wield authority without restraint. #2025MoorePrize shortlist #HumanRights
It is a pleasure to have such an excellent and positive book as part of our shortlist. Thank you for your insights.
This is a great honour — some truly extraordinary fellow-shortlistees. Thank you — for praise for #ProsecutingthePowerful and for emphasising importance of #justice themes for today’s world
The Christopher G Moore Foundation is delighted to announce the #2025MoorePrize shortlist of the best books with a #HumanRights theme;
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It is a pleasure to have such an excellent and positive book as part of our shortlist. Thank you for your insights.
The Many Lives of Syeda X by @nehadixit7.bsky.social follows the intersecting injustices that define the lives of women in India-how resilience and identity persist in the face of structural power. #2025MoorePrize shortlist #HumanRights #Writing
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The Many Lives of Syeda X by @nehadixit7.bsky.social follows the intersecting injustices that define the lives of women in India-how resilience and identity persist in the face of structural power. #2025MoorePrize shortlist #HumanRights #Writing
Looking at Women Looking at War by Victoria Amelina transforms testimonies of survivors/eyewitnesses into acts of defiance, bearing witness to Ukraine’s struggle for justice amid the ruins of war. #2025MoorePrize shortlist #HumanRights
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Looking at Women Looking at War by Victoria Amelina transforms testimonies of survivors/eyewitnesses into acts of defiance, bearing witness to Ukraine’s struggle for justice amid the ruins of war. #2025MoorePrize shortlist #HumanRights
In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, @barbarademick.bsky.social reveals the haunting legacy of China’s stolen children & the human cost of state control over identity & Family. #2025MoorePrize #shortlist #HumanRights
November 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, @barbarademick.bsky.social reveals the haunting legacy of China’s stolen children & the human cost of state control over identity & Family. #2025MoorePrize #shortlist #HumanRights
The Christopher G Moore Foundation is delighted to announce the #2025MoorePrize shortlist of the best books with a #HumanRights theme;
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The Christopher G Moore Foundation is delighted to announce the #2025MoorePrize shortlist of the best books with a #HumanRights theme;
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August 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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August 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Two of our #2025MoorePrize long listed books are on sale as e-books on #amazonuk & #applebooks for £0.99:
Anywhere But Here-How Britain’s Broken Asylum System Fails Us All by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social And:
Looking at Women Looking at War-A War & Justice Diary by Victoria Amelina
#HumanRights
Anywhere But Here-How Britain’s Broken Asylum System Fails Us All by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social And:
Looking at Women Looking at War-A War & Justice Diary by Victoria Amelina
#HumanRights
July 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Two of our #2025MoorePrize long listed books are on sale as e-books on #amazonuk & #applebooks for £0.99:
Anywhere But Here-How Britain’s Broken Asylum System Fails Us All by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social And:
Looking at Women Looking at War-A War & Justice Diary by Victoria Amelina
#HumanRights
Anywhere But Here-How Britain’s Broken Asylum System Fails Us All by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social And:
Looking at Women Looking at War-A War & Justice Diary by Victoria Amelina
#HumanRights
Longlisted for #2025MoorePrize Looking at Women Looking at War by #VictoriaAmelia focuses on the heroic women of the #Ukrainian resistance. A Russian missile took the author’s life before she completed the book. She left behind an incredible account of the ravages of war & the cost of resistance.
June 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Longlisted for #2025MoorePrize Looking at Women Looking at War by #VictoriaAmelia focuses on the heroic women of the #Ukrainian resistance. A Russian missile took the author’s life before she completed the book. She left behind an incredible account of the ravages of war & the cost of resistance.
In long listed book, An Inconvenient Place, Jonathan Littell & photog Antoine d’Agata began surveying the site of the 1941 massacre of Kyiv Jews when war came to interrupt their work. It resumed in Bucha, infamous after the discovery of atrocities of the Russian forces. #2025MoorePrize #HumanRights
June 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
In long listed book, An Inconvenient Place, Jonathan Littell & photog Antoine d’Agata began surveying the site of the 1941 massacre of Kyiv Jews when war came to interrupt their work. It resumed in Bucha, infamous after the discovery of atrocities of the Russian forces. #2025MoorePrize #HumanRights
Human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. Long listed for #2025MoorePrize, EveryBody Counts by @blnadeau.bsky.social is a ground-breaking investigation that follows the money to reveal a secretive world where lives don't matter. #HumanRights #Writing
June 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. Long listed for #2025MoorePrize, EveryBody Counts by @blnadeau.bsky.social is a ground-breaking investigation that follows the money to reveal a secretive world where lives don't matter. #HumanRights #Writing
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call me crazy but I don't think we should.
We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering
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June 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
call me crazy but I don't think we should.
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So if you don’t want to live in a world where writing an article like this becomes punishable by up to 14 years in prison - as it will be, the author notes, if Starmer gets his way - then the time to stand up and be counted is *now*.
#PalestineAction
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#PalestineAction
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Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney
If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney
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June 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
So if you don’t want to live in a world where writing an article like this becomes punishable by up to 14 years in prison - as it will be, the author notes, if Starmer gets his way - then the time to stand up and be counted is *now*.
#PalestineAction
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#PalestineAction
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Long listed @2025MoorePrize, Anywhere But Here by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social takes us behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time. It is a searing investigation into one of the most urgent issues & shocking injustices of our time. #HumanRights #Writing
June 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Long listed @2025MoorePrize, Anywhere But Here by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social takes us behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time. It is a searing investigation into one of the most urgent issues & shocking injustices of our time. #HumanRights #Writing
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If you're anywhere near #Edinburgh this summer, check out the International Book Festival @edbookfest.bsky.social. Tickets go on sale tomorrow!
I’ll be on a panel with Omar El Akkad and @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social , Fri Aug. 15, 13:30-14:30.
A 🧵 on our new books. 1/n
#EdBookFest 💙📚 🗃 #politics
I’ll be on a panel with Omar El Akkad and @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social , Fri Aug. 15, 13:30-14:30.
A 🧵 on our new books. 1/n
#EdBookFest 💙📚 🗃 #politics
Surekha Davies, Omar El Akkad & Nicola Kelly: Who Counts as Human?
From Fri 15 Aug - Three writers grappling with the toxic rhetoric humans apply to one another explore how the boundaries of humanity are set to exclude certain communities…
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June 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
If you're anywhere near #Edinburgh this summer, check out the International Book Festival @edbookfest.bsky.social. Tickets go on sale tomorrow!
I’ll be on a panel with Omar El Akkad and @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social , Fri Aug. 15, 13:30-14:30.
A 🧵 on our new books. 1/n
#EdBookFest 💙📚 🗃 #politics
I’ll be on a panel with Omar El Akkad and @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social , Fri Aug. 15, 13:30-14:30.
A 🧵 on our new books. 1/n
#EdBookFest 💙📚 🗃 #politics
Anywhere But Here is one of the remarkable books long listed for the #2025MoorePrize for #HumanRights #Writing
Journalist and former Home Office insider @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social's "Anywhere But Here: How Britain’s Broken Asylum System Fails Us All" chronicles the predicaments of people who escape horrors and arrive in Britain only to encounter an unjust, inhuman, and broken asylum system. 3/n
Elliott & Thompson | Anywhere But Here
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June 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Anywhere But Here is one of the remarkable books long listed for the #2025MoorePrize for #HumanRights #Writing
Long listed for @2025MoorePrize, Prosecuting the Powerful by @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social Describes how, with a blend of powerful eyewitness reporting & gripping history, the possibilities of bringing war criminals to justice have been transformed.
#HumanRights #Writing
#HumanRights #Writing
June 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Long listed for @2025MoorePrize, Prosecuting the Powerful by @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social Describes how, with a blend of powerful eyewitness reporting & gripping history, the possibilities of bringing war criminals to justice have been transformed.
#HumanRights #Writing
#HumanRights #Writing
Wondering what to read next? Try one of these remarkable #2025MoorePrize longlisted books.
#HumanRights
#HumanRights
June 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Wondering what to read next? Try one of these remarkable #2025MoorePrize longlisted books.
#HumanRights
#HumanRights
Long listed Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by @barbarademick.bsky.social questions China's 1-child policy the ethics of int’l adoption & the assumptions/narratives we hold about the quality of lives lived in the East & the West
#2025MoorePrize for #HumanRights Writing
#2025MoorePrize for #HumanRights Writing
June 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Long listed Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by @barbarademick.bsky.social questions China's 1-child policy the ethics of int’l adoption & the assumptions/narratives we hold about the quality of lives lived in the East & the West
#2025MoorePrize for #HumanRights Writing
#2025MoorePrize for #HumanRights Writing
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Delighted to see AN INCONVENIENT PLACE by Jonathan Littell & Antoine D'Agata, tr. Charlotte Mandell on the @mooreprize.bsky.social longlist!
Announcing the Long List for #2025MoorePrize for #HumanRights Writing; the 9 best books published in the past 12 months with a #humanrights theme.
June 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Delighted to see AN INCONVENIENT PLACE by Jonathan Littell & Antoine D'Agata, tr. Charlotte Mandell on the @mooreprize.bsky.social longlist!
Finnish Estonian novelist librettist & playwright @sofioksanen.com is one of the most awarded literary authors of Northern Europe. Her book Same River Twice about how Russia’s weaponizing of sexual violence plays a crucial role in its current geopolitical strategy, is longlisted for #2025MoorePrize
June 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Finnish Estonian novelist librettist & playwright @sofioksanen.com is one of the most awarded literary authors of Northern Europe. Her book Same River Twice about how Russia’s weaponizing of sexual violence plays a crucial role in its current geopolitical strategy, is longlisted for #2025MoorePrize
2025 longlisted author of Radio Free Afghanistan @saadmohseni.bsky.social speaking at #JLFLondon on Saturday, along with @lucyhannah.bsky.social @batoolhaidari.bsky.social @georginagodwin.bsky.social & Gulhan Durzai
#2025MoorePrize #humanrights writing
#2025MoorePrize #humanrights writing
June 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
2025 longlisted author of Radio Free Afghanistan @saadmohseni.bsky.social speaking at #JLFLondon on Saturday, along with @lucyhannah.bsky.social @batoolhaidari.bsky.social @georginagodwin.bsky.social & Gulhan Durzai
#2025MoorePrize #humanrights writing
#2025MoorePrize #humanrights writing
Long listed for #2025MoorePrize journalist Neha Dixit’s The Many Lives of Syeda X, follows the life of a faceless working Indian woman from Varanasi to Delhi over 30 years bit.ly/4jLhw6T
#humanrights writing
#humanrights writing
Neha Dixit’s ‘The Many Lives of Syeda X’ longlisted for 2025 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing
The shortlist will be announced on Wednesday, 12 November, 2025 and the winning book on Wednesday, 7 January, 2026. The winner of the prize will receive £1,000.
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June 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Long listed for #2025MoorePrize journalist Neha Dixit’s The Many Lives of Syeda X, follows the life of a faceless working Indian woman from Varanasi to Delhi over 30 years bit.ly/4jLhw6T
#humanrights writing
#humanrights writing
We’ll be there!
Long listed for #2025MoorePrize, Saad Mohseni, author of #RadioFreeAfghanistan will take part in a panel at Jaipur Literature Festival @britishlibrary tomorrow: Broadcasts from Kabul-Narratives of Hope. Looking forward to that & many of the other talks on the programme.
June 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We’ll be there!