Competition Instructions

Submitting Entries

Please send entries to:

Right Words
P.O. Box 5171
Brighton
BN50 9UP

Or email them to: competition@hrw.org.

Closing date: 18 December 2009

Entries must be received by 18 December 2009, so please get your entry in the post on Tuesday 15 December to make sure that it reaches us.

Entries must be identified with:

• the name of the student;
• the name and address of the school; and
• the name, email address and telephone number of a contact staff member.

Rules

1. To enter this competition you need to write an original story, poem or essay on the subject of Child Soldiers.
2. To enter this competition you must be a Key Stage 4 level student attending a school in England or Wales, or a Secondary 3 or 4 student attending a school in Scotland.
3. Your entry can be handwritten or typed. We are sorry that entries will not be acknowledged or returned, so please keep copies.
4. Your entry must reach us by 12 noon on 18 December 2009.
5. Winners will be selected by a panel of judges by 1 February 2010. The panel's decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
6. Winners' school contacts will be notified by telephone or email on or before 1 February 2010.
7. Please make sure that you read the Agreement below before you send us your entry.

Winners

A distinguished panel of writers, journalists, and other human rights experts will judge the entries. The full judging panel will be announced on this website shortly.

The winning entries in each category will be published in a London Network anthology in spring 2010.

Agreement

If you enter this competition you will give Human Rights Watch the right to use your entry in any form throughout the world.

Entrants also waive forever any so-called 'moral rights' to their story. This means we can publish your story so that other people can read it.

Entries must be your original work and not defame any person or corporate body nor infringe or breach copyright. Entries must be within the boundaries of acceptable taste, language and decency.

Human Rights Watch will only ever use your personal details for the purposes of administering this competition, and will not publish them or provide them to anyone without your permission.

This competition is not open to employees or contractors of Human Rights Watch, any person directly or indirectly involved in the Human Rights Watch or the running of the competition, or their direct family members.

These rules are governed by the laws of the United Kingdom.

This competition is administered by members of the Human Rights Watch London Network and they reserve the right to cancel it or amend the rules at any stage.

If you have any queries about the 2009 competition, or would like details of the 2008 winners or how to obtain the anthology of 2008 entries, please e-mail competition@hrw.org.

 

The Right Words competition is being run by members of the Human Rights Watch London Network, in support of Human Rights Watch. With thanks to The Literary Consultancy and Gua Africa for their support. All photos on this site copyright © Kate Shortt and reproduced by kind permission of the photographer and Invisible Children. Site designed by Kate Gallé and developed by Philip Calvert.