UK journalist wins top award for UBR story

July 2010 - A UK journalist has won a coveted international award for her report on Plan’s Universal Birth Registration campaign.

Nina Lakhani (Credit: Jason Alden)

Nina Lakhani, a reporter for the UK’s Independent on Sunday, was recognised for her report, ‘The 40 million children that just didn’t exist’.

She has been presented with the Dario D’ Angelo Prize at the Marco Luchetta Journalism Awards ceremony in Trieste, Italy.

Nina said: "I was genuinely shocked but incredibly honoured to win the Marco Luchetta Award, especially as I felt that the judges cared as passionately about the campaign to register the world's missing millions as I do.

"A good news story is not something I am known for in my work, but the amazing progress made by Plan and hundreds of committed local people in 32 countries, to reverse an entrenched injustice that so few people in the West even know exists, deserves to be recognised across the world."

The prestigious award is given to journalists in recognition of their investigative and analytical journalism about children.