DW-Radio has won two silver medals and a bronze in the Environment, National and International Affairs and Science and Technology categories of the New York Festivals radio programming competition.
The Silver Medal in the Environment category was awarded to the English Service for a feature series: Indigenous Peoples: Partners in Conservation, presenting projects on all continents of the world aimed at helping indigenous peoples to protect their traditional lifestyles and the bio-diversity of their environments. The series was made in cooperation with the Worldwide Fund for Nature, WWF
DWs International Co-productions Department was awarded a silver medal by the United Nations for Living with the Past: Ruanda in Search of Reconciliation and Justice.
The bronze medal in the Science and Technology category was awarded to Deutsche Welles English Service for a feature series: Green Development: The Path to a Sustainable Future. The series presents projects supported by Germanys Society for Technical Co-operation, the GTZ, to provide developing countries with innovative technical solutions to environmental problems.