The winning essay is “Cyber Politics: the Power of Webocracy’”, written by Rebecca Lee. The second prize goes to Patricia Tarre for "¿Prisión, pena de muerte o tortura asegurada?" The third prize goes to Sanjana Janardhanan for the essay “State and Identity formulation - The question of Kashmir”. These and  following top 28 essays will be published here during the year.

TOP ESSAYS (alphabetic order)

- Amthul Nimrah, "HUMAN RIGHTS"
- Andy Yee, "Civil Society in China: A Discussion Illuminated by the Case of Deng Yujiao"
- Aziza Francis, "JOURNALISM OUR LAST HOPE."
- Bansi Uday Mehta, "DEFENCE IN DEMOCRACY"
- Bianca Joseph, "Human Rights"
- Rebecca Lee, "North Korea: The Horror behind the Mirage"
- Farida Gemambet, "The Internet - a hope for the free speech of mankind"
- Foster Lartey, "HUMAN RIGHTS CONSOLIDATION: HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE"
- George W. Knox, "The Shifting Sands of Human Rights in America"
- Hafsa Badsha, "Older Than The Americas: The Struggle of Native American and First Nation Tribes: Past and Present"
- Ishvarya Reddy, "HUMAN RIGHTS"
- Iweh Pamela Chioma, "JOURNALISM IS MY ONLY WEAPON"
- Kalpit Khandelwal, "JOURNALISM IS MY ONLY WEAPON, "Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.""
- Kush Kalra, "AIDS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE CHALLENGES AHEAD"
- Line Løvåsen, "Modern slavery"
- Manish Kumar Tiwari, "Journalism is the only weapon"
- Matukio Aranyande Chuma, "LET THEIR VOICE BE HEARD, LET LIVE"
- Muthulashmi Anavarathan, "HUMAN RIGHTS"
- Ondotimi Songi, "NIGER DELTA, ETHNIC NATIONALITIES AND THE BRUTALITY OF THE NIGERIAN STATE"
- Sabzali Khan Yusuf zai, "Professionalism"
- Sadhika Billa, "HUMAN RIGHTS, The Essence of Humanity"
- Sagarika Mohapatra, "Atrocities to transgender"
- Shoma Chatterji, "INCEST - THE UGLY FACE OF POWER"
- Shreya Vemula, "HUMAN RIGHTS"
- Sushma Sosha Philip, "The Carefree Child - An Endangered Species "
- Tish Rollo, "Myanmar: Land of Oppressed Freedom"
- Triveni Mishra, "The Internet"

REVIEW PROCESS
10 essays were sent out for reviewing. Each essay was reviewed by at least three reviewers and judged against six equally weighted criteria: Thematic focus, Skill in argumentation, Clarity of ideas, Originality, Precision and Style in writing, and Grace of expression. For each criterion there is an associated scale from 0 to 10. Each essay’s review score was calculated as follows; the average of the six equally weighted criteria for each reviewer was calculated; thereafter the average of the reviewers score was calculated. In addition to the score, each reviewer added a final comment to the author.

REVIEW BOARD
We would like to thank our review board

* Ryan Flynn
* Biplab Mukherjee
* Maria Belen Avellaneda
* Omar Lopez
* Linda Burbank
* Conor Nugent
* Kenday Kamara
* Narendra ch
* Anita Mathew
* David Agogo
* Holy Sage
* Swapneshwar Goutam
* Parisha
* Nandhini Narayanasamy
* Spagnoli Filip
* Benjamin Jakubus
* Luisa Nordlander
* Tomas Nordlander