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Author Biography: Robin Pierro

Robin Pierro has somewhat of a habit of dashing off to foreign countries to get the story. Before landing her internship at TV Africa in Accra, Pierro travelled to Kenya, Ghana and Peru to produce three independent documentaries. In Kenya, Pierro spent weeks living and working in one of Africa’s largest slums, working on her film The Voice of Kibera. Pierro’s current role at TV Africa is driven by her belief that journalists have the ability to empower, educate and evoke change through the stories they share. She graduated from Ryerson University with a degree in journalism and was honored with the Joe Perlove Award for the best student journalist in their graduating year.

Journalism students in Ghana use their skills to make change for refugees

In Educational Internships, Ghana, IYIP Educational Officer, Photo Essays,
by Robin Pierro October 27, 2011

On July 15th, 2011 a group of 10 journalism students from Ghana presented a body of work, including a radio feature, print articles and a video documentary, at the Silverbird Cinema in Accra, Ghana. The premiere of their work brought over 200 Ghanaians together to read about, listen to and watch the stories the students [...]

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Ghanaian Journalism Students Reporting field-trip to the Krisan Refugee Camp.

In By Country, Educational Internships, Ghana, IYIP Educational Officer,
by Robin Pierro August 31, 2011

In May 2011, journalists for human rights educational officer Robin Pierro helped organize a reporting field trip with students from the African University College of Communications and the Ghana Institute of Journalism to the Krisan Refugee Camp in the western region of Ghana. The trip taught the students what human rights reporting is all about [...]

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Moving up and Moving Out: Oil’s impact on Takoradi

In Ghana, IYIP Rights Media Internships, Media Internships,
by Robin Pierro August 31, 2011

The air was thick with smoke, filling the congested bar with the smell of cigarettes butts and beer. The majority of the crowd was made up of balding middle aged men, filling their bellies with beer and scanning the room for available ‘companions’ for the evening. The Champs Sports bar in Takoradi was built in [...]

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A Dream Deferred

In Blog, Educational Internships, Ghana,
by Robin Pierro July 28, 2011
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Gaga’s eye fill with tears as he watches the students in the high school courtyard laughing and joking together. His tattered and stained grey t-shirt looks drab next to the crisp mustard colored shirts the students inside had on. “I’m embarrassed that I am standing here, when people I used to be in school with [...]

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Michael Cooke does Ghana

In Ghana,
by Robin Pierro June 16, 2011

Text by Jenny Vaughan, video by Robin Pierro In May 2011, Editor-in-Chief of the Toronto Star, Michael Cooke, travelled to West Africa with Journalists for Human Rights. On the last leg of his three-country tour, he stopped in Ghana where he met with editors, reporters and media managers at the forefront of human rights reporting [...]

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Ghana going online: The true gods of fraud

In Ghana, IYIP Educational Officer,
by Robin Pierro May 30, 2011

If you’ve ever received an email request for your bank information from someone who claims to have inherited a $20 million estate and wants to share it with you, it’s likely that email originated from West Africa. Sakawa, the business of online fraud, is one of Ghana’s most profitable and popular underground industries. People use [...]

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Yes they can: Obama Biscuits employs autistic adults in Accra

In Ghana, IYIP Educational Officer,
by Robin Pierro May 12, 2011

> Video and Text by Robin Pierro Nortey Quaynor sits at his station in Accra’s United Biscuits factory. His hands move swiftly sealing bags of freshly baked cookies with Barack Obama’s face pressed into them. Large machines fill the warehouse with a deafening drone while the sweet aroma of fresh baking wafts in the air. [...]

Tagged as: autism, Ghana, mental health

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Ghana going online: Internet as a human right?

In Ghana, IYIP Rights Media Internships,
by Robin Pierro April 22, 2011

Conversations about human rights violations often summon clichéd images of impoverished, emaciated villagers or fly-ridden, pot-bellied children. For many, the term “human rights” means having access to basic needs such as water, food, shelter and health care. Rarely do we think of access to internet as a human right. But today in Ghana, there are [...]

Tagged as: human rights, internet, technology, web access

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The ‘lucky boys’ of Chorkor

In Ghana,
by Robin Pierro April 1, 2011

Joseph is 12 years old, with a small body that is toned and fit from fishing with his father for the last three years. Since becoming a fisher boy, Joseph has stopped going to school. “After my senior brother died, my mother said I shouldn’t go to school anymore,” he says. “I wanted to stay [...]

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Ghana online: Supply, demand and dominance

In Ghana, IYIP Rights Media Internships,
by Robin Pierro March 29, 2011
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It’s nearly 11 p.m. and the internet cafe in Accra, Ghana is surging with energy. University students, business professionals and groups of friends crowd around computers, eyes glued to the monitors. The calming hum of over 20 machines is broken by the odd burst of laughter and whispering voices. Beauty Badger, a first year marketing [...]

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