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jhr's 2010 Annual Report

jhr's Speak Magazine (2009 Edition)
Each year jhr's university chapter program publishes Speak, a magazine that showcases human rights reporting by Canadian university students. What makes this publication unique is every element of its creation is carried out by students. The content comes from chapter members from across Canada and each year one school takes on the responsibility of editing, laying out and producing the magazine.

This years Speak was put together by the University of British Columbia jhr chapter and is themed around the issue of Child Rights. With a wide variety of articles covering everything from drug addiction among youth in Nicaragua, to youth working in the sex trade in Vancouver this years Speak magazine tackles important and wide spread rights abuses.

Election Reporting in Sierra Leone
A case study on jhr’s efforts to build the capacity of local journalists to cover elections.

jhr | Train the Trainer Program Toolkit.
jhr has developed a Train the Trainer Program that provides certification to all participants who attend the workshop and then successfully move on to deliver their own workshop. There are three tiers to this program in order to help jhr reach the goal of increasing the overall awareness of human rights in Canada. Each level of workshops, starting with Train the Trainer, will educate and empower more Canadians on human rights issues.

Media Development, Radio and Women's Rights
In 1992 Ghana was brought back to civilian rule after a 12-year military regime. The country's constitution was established and the rights and freedoms of Ghanaians became protected under Chapter Five of the Constitution, which closely follow the rights and freedoms found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)...

Human Rights Reporting Through Radio in Northern Ghana: Innovations in Media Governance Case Study
The year was 1992. Ghana was brought back to civilian rule after 12 years under a military regime and the country's current Constitution was established. The rights and freedoms of Ghanaians became protected under Chapter Five of the Constitution, which closely follows the rights and freedoms found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)...

Evaluating Capacity Development
Evaluating Capacity Development remains a challenge for evaluators and for program planners who design capacity development interventions. In understanding and describing the complex relationships surrounding the changes in the capacities of individuals, organizations and societies in development contexts program evaluators continue to struggle...

Prisoners' Rights in Ghana
We, Edudzi Ofori and Chelsea Paradis, are two Canadian law students from the University of Ottawa who undertook an internship with an international non-governmental organization called Journalists for Human Rights (JHR), in Accra, Ghana for a period of three months (May 22 to August 11 2006), through an organization called Canadian Lawyers Abroad (CLA)...

TUNING IN: An Inventory of Rural FM Radio in Ghana
This study is an exploratory analysis of rural FM radio in sub-Saharan Africa with Ghana as the single case study. It seeks to describe the current situation of rural radio in the county including levels of rural development programming and community participation. Analysis focuses on the three main sectors of rural radio – community, commercial and GBC...

In Their Hands: The Impact of Human Rights Training on Ghanaian Journalists
Almost 60 years have passed since The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. A landmark document, the declaration set forth the human rights and fundamental freedoms to which all people, everywhere in the world, are entitled without discrimination...
 
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Students Holler Against Congo's Sexual Violence
This November 4th, 2011, university students across Canada are choosing to Stand Up and Shout about sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for 16 hours straight. Each hour is dedicated to 100 000 of the 1.6 million sexual violence victims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. To signify their participation, students will also sport blue lipstick. Read the full news release here or visit the Hollerday Site to find out how you can contribute!

jhr Elects Top Media and Human Rights Professionals to Board of Directors
Journalists for Human Rights is proud to announce the addition of five of Canada’s top media and human rights professionals to its Board of Directors: Michael Cooke, Wojciech Gryc, Helen Hambly Odame, Renu Mandhane, and Kirstine Stewart. Read the press release here.

jhr Partners with the BBC
Journalists for Human Rights is proud to introduce our formal partnership with the BBC World Service Trust. For the next year and a half, jhr trainers will work with BBC WST staff at nine community radio stations across Sierra Leone. Watch the website for news of this exciting new project!

Annual Report Now Available
jhr's 2010 annual report is now available on our website. Click here to get an in depth look at all of last year's work and success!

New Exchange Program launches between Sierra Leone and Ghana
jhr, in partnership with the Commonwealth Foundation, has recently launched an exchange program for Ghanaian and Sierra Leonean journalists. From May to December 2011 six journalists will visit Accra, Ghana and Freetown, Sierra Leone. They will discuss and share insights with fellow journalists, based in a different country, how to better cover elections.
FEATURED JOURNALIST
Sarah Bomkapre Kamara
Works for:
Cotton Tree News, Freetown
Country: Sierra Leone
Trained by: Marie-Jo Proulx

Sarah is a radio reporter, producer, and presenter with Cotton Tree News, a project of Fondation Hirondelle, housed in the mass communication department at Fourah Bay College. She is also a regular contributor to the school's Radio Mount Aureol. As part of the jhr fellowship program, she produced a series on the difficulties disabled persons face when trying to access higher education. After she graduates, Sarah would like to work in electronic media as a human rights investigative journalist.
FEATURED jhr CHAPTER
jhr McGill
City: Montreal, Quebec
Started: September 2006
President: Kartiga Thavaraj

jhr McGill is hosting the 3rd Annual jhr Rights Media Documentary Film Festival sponsored by the Canadian Museum For Human Rights, in Montreal from September 30 - October 1, 2011. The Rights Media Docfest aims to continue the jhr chapter success of being named McGill club of the year and jhr chapter president being elected as the president of the Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU).