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jhr's Speak Magazine (2009 Edition)
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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
By Jared Ferrie, a jhr Trainer in Sierra Leone (2009)
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A case study on jhr’s efforts to build the capacity of local journalists to cover elections.
jhr | Train the Trainer Program Toolkit.
By Carissa MacLennan (2008)
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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
By N. Whaites & PI Jehman (2008)
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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
By J. Llewelin, N. Whaites & A. Filipowich (2007)
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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
By Tom Metzger (2007)
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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
By Edudzi Ofori & Chelsea Paradis (2006)
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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
By Nikki Whaites (2005)
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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
By Erin Moore (2006)
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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...
Human Rights Reporting Handbook for Ghanaian Journalists
(2007)
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Human Rights Reporting Handbook for Kenyan Journalists
(2007)
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Human Rights Reporting Handbook for Malawian Journalists
(2007)
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Human Rights Reporting Handbook for Namibian Journalists
(2007)
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Human Rights Reporting Handbook for Nigerian Journalists
(2007)
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Human Rights Reporting Handbook for Rwandan Journalists
(2007)
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Human Rights Reporting Handbook for Senegalese Journalists
(2007)
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Human Rights Reporting Handbook for Sierra Leonean Journalists
(2007)
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Human Rights Reporting Handbook for South African Journalists
(2007)
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Human Rights Reporting Handbook for Tanzanian Journalists
(2007)
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Human Rights Reporting Handbook for Ugandan Journalists
(2007)
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Human Rights Reporting Handbook for Zambian Journalists
(2007)
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2009 Audited Financial Statement
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2008 Audited Financial Statement
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2007 Audited Financial Statement
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2006 Audited Financial Statement
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jhr travels to Africa with Editor of the Toronto Star

jhrs International Programs Director Rachel Pulfer recently spent three weeks traveling though Ghana and the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the Editor of the Toronto Star, Michael Cooke. Cooke conducted three workshops in Ghana and four workshops in the DRC on topics such as freedom of the press, investigative journalism and good governance. His workshops were attended by three hundred journalists, journalism students, editors and publishers.

Click here to read Rachel's article.

jhr to send 40 more young Canadians to Africa

In collaboration with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), jhr will be sending 40 interns to work with and learn from jhr’s media partners in Malawi and Ghana over the next two years. The internship program serves as a way to give Canadian youth work experience in developing countries. The first group of interns depart in early July, with placements in Star Radio, the Daily Times and Capital Radio in Malawi and Critical TV and the Daily Guide in Ghana.

Social Media is transforming jhr! Get involved!

Social media is completely transforming the media landscape and jhr believes that it can be actively used to spread human rights awareness and incite change. We need you to consume, share, and encourage the production of rights media by blogging, tweeting, or sharing on Facebook, stories which have the real potential to change lives. Where and how do you start?

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FEATURED JOURNALIST
Emmanuel Wheinyue
Works for:
Star Radio, Monrovia
Country: Liberia
Age: 23
Trained by jhr: 2008-2009
Specialties: Human Interest Features, Documentary Radio

"I am so grateful to Journalists for Human Rights (jhr) for empowering us. Through jhr workshops at Star Radio, we build on the professional radio skills we have. My feature writing and reporting has improved and jhr helped me produce my first radio documentary on the problem of sea erosion on the coast of Liberia." - Emmanuel Wheinyue
FEATURED jhr CHAPTER
jhr Carleton
City: Ottawa, Ontario
Started: January 2004
Presidents: Zahra Bhumani & Laxmi Parthasarathy
Recent Event(s): 11.15.08. Speak Silence

International Project: Radio Salus, Rwanda

Partnership with community station in Bulare, one of only 12 stations in the country. Works to further integrate Radio Salus with the National University of Rwanda School of Communications and Journalism (NUR-SCJ).
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