LONDON: Freelance Pakistani reporter Shah Meer Baloch has won the KurtSchork Freelance Award for his work documenting slave mining, child labour,the Kalahsas and systematic negligence in the national polio vaccinationprogramme.

Thomson Reuters Foundation announced three winners honouring brave, yetoften unrecognised journalists for their reporting on conflict, corruptionand injustice.

The prize for the award is $5,000.

The judges highlighted how “the high degree of personal risk involved intackling such stories in Pakistan cannot be understated”. They said Balochhas demonstrated “admirable moral determination” in bringing these storiesto light.