Entries are invited for the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust/New Statesman Prize for New Political Writing on the subject:

Do women’s rights remain the privilege of the developed world?

Entrants must be under 30 on Friday 29 April 2005, which is the closing date for entries. There will be a prize of £1,000 for the winning essay, which will be published in the New Statesman, and prizes of £500 and £250 for those placed second and third.

The judges will be:

Clare Short, MP and former Secretary of State for International Development;
Kate Allen, director of Amnesty International UK;
Nina Fishman, professor of history at the University of Westminster;
Mike Rustin of the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust
Peter Wilby, editor of the New Statesman.

If you wish to enter, please e-mail Natalie Brierley (natalie@newstatesman.co.uk) for the rules and a registration form.