BOP 2004 Still Photo Winners > Feature Picture Story
- 1st Place
- paul hansen, Dagens Nyheter
Björn and Ann Håkansson are two of the one hundred and seven victims of the Thalidomide disaster from the sixties. Björn's mother Ulla was prescribed the calming pills after a traffic-accident. Anns mother Alva because she bit her nails. Today, forty years after the Thalidomide-disaster, Björn and a friend has finally sued the swedish government for negligence. The couple are constantly fighting for the rights of handicapped . Björn is the chariman of he swedish thalidomide victims association, and his wife Ann runs the website.
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