The International Emmy Award for Best Current Affairs is presented by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (IATAS) to recognize the best current affairs programming produced and initially aired outside the United States. It was first presented in 2007.
The categories for international journalism were previously presented at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards alongside their U.S. counterparts. In 2025, they began to be presented at the International Emmy Awards Gala, along with the other categories
Winners and nominees 2000s Year Program (English Title) Episode/Story Production company/Network Country2007 Baghdad: A Doctor's Story Guardian Films / BBC Two Hot Line "The Candelária Slaughter" TV Globo La Liga "The Path of the Cocaine Leaf" Cuatro Cabezas Special Reporter: Vyacheslav Grunskiy's Studio "The Zone of Love" TV Channel Russia Sunday Report "Give Us a Hand! Help Us Lie!" Television Broadcasts Limited 2008 Peter R. de Vries: Natalee Holloway SBS Broadcasting / Endemol The Fifth Estate "Cruel Camera" Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Hot Line "Césio 137" TV Globo Witness "Red Mosque" Al Jazeera English / Midwinter Productions 2009 Dispatches "Saving Africa's Witch Children" Red Rebel Films / Oxford Scientific Films / Channel 4 Witness "Return to Nablus" Al Jazeera English / Flashback Television / Teachers Television ARD Exclusiv "Kindersklaven" Westdeutscher Rundfunk The Team: Babies Traffic Eyeworks Cuatro Cabezas
2010s Year Program (English Title) Episode/Story Production company/Network Country2010 Dispatches "Pakistan's Taliban Generation" October Film / Channel 4 Tuesday Report "Child Abduction" Television Broadcasts Limited Enquête "The Ultimate Forgiveness" Société Radio-Canada Telenoche "Glaciers, The First Veto" Artear / El Trece 2011 Back from the Brink: Inside the Chilean Mine Disaster NHK 21st Century "Cambodia: A Quest for Justice" UNTV The Assassination of Jean Charles Meneses Discovery Networks Latin America Unter Piraten infonetwork GmbH 2012 Haiti's Orphans: One Year After the Earthquake CBC Television Profession: Reporter "Children and Drugs: A Childhood Overtaken by Addiction" TV Globo China Dolls: Fragile Bodies, Strong Minds Phoenix Satellite Television Extra: The RTL Magazine "The Merciless Traffic in the Flight from Africa" infoNetwork GmbH 2013 Banaz: An Honour Killing Hardcash Productions / Fuuse Films / ITV Globo Repórter "Enawenê-nawê: The Spirit-Men" TV Globo i-Witness "Alkansiya (Piggy Bank)" GMA Network ZDFzoom "The Fukushima Lie" ZDF German Television 2014 The Fifth Estate "Made in Bangladesh" Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Long Journey Home Antena 3 Journalism for All "The Route of the K-Money" Artear / El Trece Sunday Report "One Child Policy" Television Broadcasts Limited 2015 Dispatches "Children on the Frontline: Children of Aleppo" ITN Productions 101 East "Stray Bullets" 101 East / Al Jazeera English ZDFzoom "The Soccer Empire: The Dealings of FIFA" ZDF German Television GloboNews Documentary "Tower of David" GloboNews 2016 Dispatches "Escape from ISIS" ITN / Ronachan Films / Evan Williams Productions / Mediadante 101 East "Afghanistan: No Country for Women" Al Jazeera English Reportage im Ersten "Long Thanh Wants to Smile" ARD / NDR GloboNews Documentary "Syria on the Run" GloboNews / Globo TV 2017 Exposure "Saudi Arabia Uncovered" Hardcash Productions / ITV / WGBH / Frontline 101 East "Rodrigo Duterte: A President's Report Card" Al Jazeera English Globo Repórter "Art as Passport" Globo Comunicação e Participações Mission: Investigate "The Panama Papers" SVT / ICIJ / Süddeutsche Zeitung / Reykjavik Media / Yle / DR / NDR / RÚV / Première Lignes France 2018 White Right: Meeting the Enemy Fuuse Films / ITV GloboNews "Children of Maria da Penha" GloboNews / TV Globo Menschenschmuggler: Das Geschäft mit den Flüchtlingen DR TV / ZDF German Television Off the Grid "Silent Death on a Syrian Journey" TRT World 2019 Mission: Investigate "Deceptive Diplomacy" Sveriges Television / Mission Investigate BBC Africa Eye "Sweet Sweet Codeine" BBC World Service Exposure "Iran Unveiled: Taking on the Ayatollahs" ITV / Hardcash Productions Fantástico "11 Days in North Korea" TV Globo / GloboNews
2020s + Year Program (English Title) Episode/Story Production company/Network Country2020 Exposure "Undercover: Inside China's Digital Gulag" Hardcash Productions / ITV BBC Africa Eye "Sex for Grades" BBC Africa Eye GloboNews Documentaries "Allies" GloboNews / Globo TV Mission: Impossible "The Story of Swedbank and the World's Largest Money Laundering Scandal" Mission Investigate / Sveriges Television 2021 Exposure "In Cold Blood" Darlow Smithson Productions / ITV Africa Eye "The Baby Stealers" BBC World Service The Hunt for Gaddafi's Billions VPRO Television Profissão Repórter and Fantástico "COVID-19: The Daily Routine of a Healthcare Team Inside a Public Hospital" Globo 2022 In Search of MonstersNDR Fernsehen Black Eye BBC Africa Eye Exposure "Fearless: The Women Fighting Putin" Hardcash Productions / The Economist / ITV Domingo Espetacular "Parkinson's Research" RecordTV 2023 Off the Grid "Ukraine Wartime Diaries" TRT World GloboNews Documentary "Shelter: Innocents Under Fire" GloboNews / Globo Exposure "The Crossing" David Modell Productions UVDA "Last Stop Before Kyiv" I.D UVDA / Keshet Media Group 2024 Sky News "The Last Hospital: 30 Days in Myanmar" Sky News GloboNews Documentary "Evel, Hazin: Days of Mourning" TV Globo The Trap: India's Deadliest Scam BBC India Eye UVDA with Ilana Dayan "Brother & Sister in Captivity" UVDA Ltd. / Keshet Media Group 2025 Dispatches "Kill Zone: Inside Gaza" Basement Films Philippines: Diving for Gold Keyi Productions / Arte G.E.I.E Repórter Record Investigação "Enforced Disappearances" Record TV / Playplus Walk the Line Mediacorp Pte Ltd 2026 Al Jazeera Investigates "Hasina: 36 Days in July" Al Jazeera English Arte Reportage "My Father's Hair" Keyi Productions / Arte G.E.I.E. Exposure "Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel's War" Zandland / ITV1 Profession Repórter "Feminice" Globo
See also List of International Emmy Award winners British Academy Television Award for Best Current Affairs
References
External links International Emmy Awards