Draft:Redwan Ahmed

Redwan Ahmed is a Bangladeshi journalist based in Dhaka, the nation's capital. His journalistic work primarily focuses on the Rohingya refugee crisis, human rights issues in Bangladesh, and the climate change.

Career
Redwan Ahmed writes about Bangladesh for a wider global audience. He reports for several international news media including the British newspaper The Guardian and The Observer, Voice Of America, and South China Morning Post. He also worked for the International news agency Agence France-Presse

Before started working for the international media, Ahmed worked for a Bengali newspaper The Daily Prothom Alo. He worked in the sports desk of Prothom Alo newspaper where he wrote about Bangladesh cricket and international football.

Redwan Ahmed also appeared on a TV documentary Disasters Engineered in an episode about the Rana Plaza Garment Factory Collapse.

Awards and Accolades
Redwan Ahmed was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia, Class of 2024. His work in journalism and his dedication to defending press freedom in Bangladesh have been recognized.

Redwan Ahmed and his three other colleagues at AFP won the 22nd Human Rights Press Award in the Spot News category for their extensive coverage of the early days of the Rohingya refugee crisis on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards recognise top rights-related reporting from around Asia, with the goal of increasing respect for people’s basic rights and focusing attention on threats to those freedoms. The awards, were organised by The Foreign Correspondents’ Club Hong Kong, Amnesty International and the Hong Kong Journalists Association. The 2018 awards, for work published or broadcasted in the 2017 calendar year.

Redwan Ahmed was also a two time Journalism Fellow at the United Nations' Reham Al-Farra Memorial Journalism Fellowship program at 2021 and 2023.