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Author Biography: Amy LeBlanc

Amy has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Professional Writing and Rhetoric from the University of Waterloo where she began her journalism career at Imprint, the student newspaper. Since then, Amy has contributed to many publications including developing an online, student-run arts magazine of which she was editor-in-chief. Her passion for human rights brought her to jhr in January 2010 when she began working as a communications and development intern at jhr’s head office in Toronto. Amy's adventurous and inquisitive nature has led her in travels around the globe. She now embarks on her first trip to Africa. As a Rights Media Educational Officer in Malawi, Amy hopes to educate journalism students on how to use the media to spread human rights awareness while receiving an education herself on all that she's been missing about Africa that is not reported in the news.

Malawi loses in Canada-US tobacco wars

In IYIP Educational Officer, Malawi,
by Amy LeBlanc August 5, 2010
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Ottawa has, for the time-being, managed to muffle the international outcry over the proposed Bill C-32 – an act to amend the Canadian Tobacco Act to exclude the addition of flavours and additives “to protect young persons and others from inducements to use tobacco products [and] by restricting access to tobacco products.” Christelle Legault, a [...]

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Skirting the Rape Issue: A Heated Debate

In IYIP Educational Officer, Malawi,
by Amy LeBlanc July 29, 2010
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Objectivity in journalism means writing articles that represent all sides of a story evenly, regardless of personal beliefs. This is the concept behind our weekly human rights debates at MIJ (Malawi Institute of Journalism). We split the class into two groups and present each with an argument on a human rights issue and give them [...]

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Political Fascination in Malawi

In IYIP Educational Officer, Malawi,
by Amy LeBlanc July 21, 2010
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“President Bingu wa Mutharika…” is the most common opening lines of Malawian news stories. You can’t mistake his image or his name because they are everywhere. His framed photo hangs in most businesses and his name is unmistakably on the tongues of Malawians and in the notebooks of journalists. In my two weeks here I’ve heard [...]

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