Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing

“In the Faustian battle between hope & despair, Crawshaw leaves us with hope. His is a timely message at a moment when international justice movements are facing an existential threat to their very existence” #2025MoorePrize Jury commented. #HumanRights shortlist

“Although this is about a section of Indian society, it covers many angles of #humanrights. Dixit digs deep into the causes of capitalism, inequality, gender, authoritarianism & violent nationalism in a way that has universal relevance” #2025MoorePrize shortlist

“This was a powerful narrative of how the war interupted ordinary lives in #Ukraine. The writing is vivid and it is completely extraordinary how the collective finished the book after Amelina was killed by a Russian bomb.” #2025MoorePrize shortlist #HumanRights writing.

The Jury said: “Most of the public is not aware of the deep issues surrounding international adoption, particularly in conflict zones. This is a compelling story that has resonance for adoption in other crises.” #2025MoorePrize shortlist #HumanRights

Thank you! — yes difficult & sometimes dangerous, and above all with extraordinary determination to find accountability for worst crimes

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.

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

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;

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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
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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

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

call me crazy but I don't think we should.

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

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*.

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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

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…

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.
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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

Wondering what to read next? Try one of these remarkable #2025MoorePrize longlisted books.
#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

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

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

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
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