Fifty-five entries have been submitted to The Strickland Foundation’s writing competition on human rights.

The writer of the best entry will win €5,000 and a trophy, and the runner-up, €1,500. The top 10 writers will get a certificate.

Entrants had to write between 2,500 and 3,000 words on one of three topics falling under the general theme of human rights.

Winners will be announced at the next Mabel Strickland Memorial Lecture in March.

Human rights is one of the themes of the foundation’s journalism internship scheme. The other is voluntary organisations.

The Strickland Foundation is a public benefit organisation set up by journalist and politician Mabel Strickland in 1979.

 

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