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jhr in the Media
Africa Server Magazine
July 19, 2011
Recent political uprisings in parts of Northern Africa, have shown that if stories can reach the right ears, millions of lives can change. Media, both social and traditional, have allowed countries to mobilize their citizens, and the world, and the results have been powerful: overthrown governments, wars, and protests.
TVO
July 15, 2011
Spending two weeks on the beach basking in the sun is a common way to enjoy spring break vacation. But in the past decade, many young Canadians are opting to lend a helping hand in the developing world instead.
This Magazine
July 14, 2011
Jenny Vaughan is no stranger to the hybrid role of journalist, leader, and advocate. She now occupies a unique position as the Accra, Ghana-based eyes and ears of Journalists for Human Rights, a media development organization with operations throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
This Magazine
July 14, 2011
Born and raised in British Columbia, Jessica McDiarmid knew from a young age that she wanted to write about tough subjects in difficult places. With the work of Canada’s most renowned foreign correspondents as inspiration, McDiarmid decided to take up a career in journalism.
Ghanaian Chronicle
Old Fadama has been identified as the largest slum in Accra. It occupies 3.1 hectares of land and having a population of about 80,000. The place, over past years, has become a shelter for a lot of youth, especially, those from the northern parts of Ghana, seeking greener pastures and a better standard of living.
Daily Guide Ghana
‘FACES OF Old Fadama,’ a magazine produced by students of the African University College of Communications (AUCC), with professional support from Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) was launched in Accra last Friday.
Ghanaian Reactor Online
A magazine titled “Faces of old Fadama” has been launched in Accra. The twenty page magazine is aimed at drawing the attention of authorities and all concerned to the various human rights abuses the residents of Old Fadama faces and also to offer Government of Ghana alternatives on humanitarian solutions to forced evictions.
Ghana Government Portal
The African University College of Communication (AUCC) has launched a new magazine which has the title “Faces of Old Fadama”. The motive for this publication is to draw government’s attention to improving the standards of living among the residents of Old Fadama in the Greater Accra Region.
TV Africa
Mr Freddie Blay, former first Deputy Speaker of Parliament to relook at the issue of slum dwellers because they possess so much potential that could be tapped for productive use.
Modern Ghana
Mr Freddie Blay, former first Deputy Speaker of Parliament to relook at the issue of slum dwellers because they possess so much potential that could be tapped for productive use.
The Ghanaian News
Canadian journalists going to Ghana as part of non-profit organization Journalists for Human Rights for six months to work in media houses and universities.
African University College of Communications (AUCC)
A group of forty AUCC students developed the “Faces of Old Fadama” magazine in collaboration with Canadian NGO Journalists for Human Rights, the People’s Dialogue on Human Settlements, the Ghana Federation of the Urban Poor and the support of the High Commission of Canada and The Daily Guide.
Globe and Mail
May 3, 2011
The “sand revolution” gathers force, a harmattan of people power. Canada’s reaction has been to send a warship and half a dozen CF-18s to Libya. Meantime, the top story in Canadian aid has been a hand-wringing debate over who misled whom over a decision not to take action on a file.
Globe and Mail
April 14, 2011
Photos from jhr’s 8th annual Night for Rights fundraising gala and other events.
Sustainable Living blog
November 14, 2010
Managing Editor of a The Enquirer Newspaper in Monrovia talks about how a jhr trained journalist wrote an article about pollution into a local river by a Firestone Rubber Factory. This article garnered the attention of Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who ordered a EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) investigation of the situation.
Toronto Star
September 9, 2010
In July 2010, 10 Canadian journalists travelled to Ghana and Malawi to work in newsrooms and journalism schools for six months to empower local journalists to produce human rights media. Five are working in Malawi and five are working in Ghana.
J-Source.ca
August 3, 2010
Two Canadian documentaries took top prize at the journalists for Human Rights film festival: A documentary detailing modern-day colonization in Canada and another that follows the long, red-tape-filled stories of Canadian refugee claimants stuck in status limbo.
J-Source.ca
August 3, 2010
Nathaniel Laywine writes about female documentary journalists, their subjects and their role in the 2nd annual Journalists for Human Rights documentary film festival.
Postcity.com
May 2010
Ben Peterson was selected as one of nine delegates to tour Africa with Governor General Michaëlle Jean.
Lifestyles Magazine
Spring 2010
Eschewing a career in politics (at least for now), Ben Peterson is using the media to transform governments and bring new hope to the Third World.
This Magazine
May 17, 2010
Human Rights Docfest is a national film festival on international human rights issues, and a partnership between Journalists for Human Rights, the National Film Board of Canada, and CitizenShift.
ONmagazine.ca
Spring 2010
We talk to Ben Peterson, co-founder and executive director of Journalists for Human Rights (jhr), about the leap of faith he took to defend human rights in Africa.
Metro News
April 1-4, 2010
Social fundraising with a cause kicked off this spring's party season. Journalists for Human Rights' Night for Rights gala market its seventh anniversary...
The Patriotic Vanguard
jhr’s 7th annual Night for Rights is almost sold out! A limited number of tickets are still available — go online right now to get yours while you still can!
Diasporan News
March 26, 2010
All attention will this night be focused on the works of Ghanaian journalist and host of JS-International Assigment, Jefferson Kwamina Sackey in Canada for his contribution to human rights awareness.
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE)
July 29, 2009
Join Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) on July 29 to celebrate the accomplishments of Pikin News - a youth-run newspaper in Sierra Leone.
The Globe and Mail
May 6, 2009
Following a screening of the documentary Reporter, The Globe and Mail's Graeme Smith takes questions and talks with Ben Peterson, co-founder of Journalists for Human Rights, about the value of the foreign correspondent and life on the front lines...
The National Post
April 4, 2009
The mezzanine at the Berkeley Church on Queen East swelled with twenty-and thirtysomethings last Friday night at the sixth annual Journalists for Human Rights fundraiser. They were drinking and dancing shoulder-to-shoulder until they were forced downstairs for fear it might cave in...
Metro News
April 2, 2009
Writers of all stripes put down their note pads and opened their wallets at the Journalists for Human Rights’ sixth annual Night for Rights at the Berkeley Church...
The Current
February 27, 2009
jhr’s trainers Nina Devries and Mary Joe Prouxl discuss child soldiers in Sierra Leone, and the verdicts handed down in the prosecution of the leaders of the civil war. To listen, click here, and scroll down to Part 3: Sierra Leone – Child Soldier Verdicts.
Awareness Times (Sierra Leone)
February 19, 2009
jhr hosts a forum in Freetown to improve cooperation between journalists and local and international non-governmental organizations.
Toronto Star
January 10, 2009
The long-term future of a federal program that gave thousands of young Canadians a chance to work for aid organizations in developing countries is uncertain.
Devex
January 9, 2009
Adelard Mambuya Obul'Okwess worked as a journalist for 12 years before he became a media trainer with Journalists for Human Rights in his home city of Kinshasa.
Concord Times (Sierra Leone)
December 22, 2008
jhr announces the recipients of six investigative reporting fellowships, created to assist local journalists to investigate human rights issues. For more on the Fellowship topics click here.
The Patriotic Vanguard (Sierra Leone)
October 25, 2008
Sierra Leone gets more than its fair share of bad press. It seems that nearly every week a new study, list or statistic is published that places the country at or close to the bottom of the "ranking du jour"...
CTV.ca (Canada)
October 22, 2008
Last month I travelled to Sierra Leone for the Canadian organization Journalists for Human Rights (JHR). The group was founded in 2002 with the goal of assisting local media in Africa and North America to expand their coverage of human rights...
The Daily Times (Malawi)
August 8, 2008
"You have to train your eyes to look at issues from a human rights point of view." Joseph Chikwemba, a local human rights activist and executive secretary of the Centre for Harmony Amongst the Races in Malawi (CHARM) is talking animatedly to a packed class of certificate journalism students at the Malawi Institute of Journalism (MIJ).
PremierNews (Sierra Leone)
February 7, 2008
In a bid to improve the capacity of local journalists in Sierra Leone, Journalists for Human Rights (JHR), a Canadian-based media capacity building organization, yesterday held a one-day training course for practitioners from the print and electronic media.
Concord Times (Sierra Leone)
January 29, 2008
Concord Times newspaper Monday grabbed Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) first media human rights award at a ceremony held in China House in Freetown.
PremierNews (Sierra Leone)
January 29, 2008
Concord Times Newspaper and five local journalists were awarded for excellence in human rights journalism yesterday by a local NGO, Journalists for Human Rights (JHR).
Ghanaweb.com (Ghana)
December 13, 2007
Mr Nick Fobih, a Human Rights Expert on Thursday advocated a constitutional reform to enhance democratic governance in the country...
The Lance
November 28, 2007
Two Windsor Law student groups, Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) and Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR), embarked on awareness and fundraising campaigns last week to encourage public engagement of global human rights abuses...
The Globe and Mail
October 13, 2007
The red carpet showcased the usual suspects during the recent run of the Toronto International Film Festival: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Matt Damon. But new to the celebrity parade were more than a dozen African-born orphans of disease and war, as part of the African Children's Choir, who were among the beneficiaries of the OneXOne charity gala (held at the same time as the film festival) that Mr. Damon chaired.
Concord Times (Sierra Leone)
May 9, 2007
A charitable organization, Journalists for Human Rights (JHR), Monday announced that it is commencing work in Sierra Leone, a press release from the organization states.
The Globe and Mail
May 8, 2007
Anonymity may be fine for some. But to Douglas Caldwell, chairman of Caldwell Partners International Inc., no good deed should go unrewarded. It's part of the reason he founded Canada's Top 40 Under 40 - to celebrate unheralded young leaders and give them the recognition they deserve....
The African Champion
Elvis Gbanabom Hallowell, renowned Sierra Leone writer and activist and winner of the prestigious Young Global Leadership Award (YGL) of the World Economic Forum, has been chosen to head Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) in Salone.
Peoples' Press (Sierra Leone)
April 26, 2007
The International Programs Director for a United States of America based Human Right organization, the Journalists for Human Right (JHR) organization is currently in Sierra Leone to offer a series of training workshops on Human Rights for journalists in Sierra Leone.
TVO, The Agenda (Canada)
February 8, 2007
The Patriotic Vanguard (Sierra Leone)
February 17, 2007
The media in Africa has an onerous challenge of living up to the responsibility of the covetous position of being the Fourth Estate by courageously highlighting the scandalous complicity of Private Military Corporations (PMCs) in the gross violations of human rights in their reportage of news...
CKUW 95.9 FM, University of Winnipeg (Canada)
February 15, 2007
The Cannon.ca
Dec. 7 2006
Last Wednesday, Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) organized a talk at UoG to showcase their organization and recount the experiences of one of its members at the SkyPower FM radio station in Ghana...
The Patriotic Vanguard (Sierre Leone)
Oct. 20 2006
Journalists for Human Rights' Sierra Leone project is now a reality thanks to a new partnership with the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF). This project will transform the Sierra Leonean media environment by increasing the number of human rights stories in local media by over 200 per cent, regularly reaching four million Sierra Leoneans a week with human rights content...
Journalists for Human Rights International Programs Director In Town
Weekend Spark
Oct. 13 2006
The International Programs Director of Journalists for Human Rights, Madam Nikki Whaites, is in town on a week long official visit to finalize arrangements for the formal establishment of the organization here in Sierra Leone.
The Toronto Star (Canada)
Sept. 28 2006
Helping mitigate the transmission of HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Bringing clean water to the rural poor of Vietnam. Diversifying crops in Bolivia. These are among the impressive job descriptions that thousands of young Canadians can include on their resumes, thanks to various federal internship programs...
Ghana Journalists Association - Letter of Support
Ghana Journalists Association
August 8 2006
Please accept this letter in support of the Journalists for Human Rights application for the Bill McWhinney Award of Excellence. JHR has helped to revolutionize the way the Ghanaian media reports on human rights democratic issues.
The Vision (Buduburam refugee camp, Ghana)
June 9 2006
Prize Fourthson Y. McApreko, director of Amnesty International-Ghana has challenged Liberian journalists to use their pen critically to highlight and report on on-going rights abuses like tortures, rapes and discrimination against women, children and others in the world...
Toronto Life (Canada)
June 3 2006
If they're to be the leaders of tomorrow, they'd do well to drink some water tonight. The 20-something sons and daughters of Toronto's elite gathered in April at the Steam Whistle Brewery, dancing, schmoozing and enthusiastically boozing at the annual 750-person, open-bar Journalists for Human Rights fundraiser...
Metro Toronto (Canada)
March 27, 2008
At least once a year Toronto's youth can drink the night away and better the world in the process. Friday was the third annual Night for Rights fundraiser put on by Journalists for Human Rights (JHR). The event, held at Steam Whistle Brewery, attracted more than 700 of the city's young and eligible, and a handful of its more seasoned and established...
Office of International Affairs, University of Victoria (Canada)
March 2006
In February of 2005, journalism students at UVic and 13 other universities across Canada took a vow of silence to symbolize the oppression of people who are unable to speak out about their own human rights. Nearly 100 participants collected pledges, tied bandannas around their mouths, and embarked on a 48-hour campaign of silence performed in rotating 12-hour shifts...
Newswatch magazine (Nigeria)
Feb. 6 2006
Joint action programmes by Nigerian journalists and their overseas counterparts to enhance effective coverage of human rights issues kick off The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Lagos chapter, in collaboration with Journalists for Human Rights, JHR, a Canadian non-governmental organisation, NGO, recently held a seminar on the laws guiding human rights reporting...
The Expositor(Canada)
Jan. 27 2006
Individuals can advance the cause of human rights in their local communities and around the world, a group of Laurier Brantford students heard Thursday. "All of you have the ability to contribute," said Ben Peterson, the executive director of the Toronto-based Journalists for Human Rights. "But you need to get out of your safe, comfortable..."
Rap 21, Newsletter No. 19 (Electronic network for the African press)
Sept. 22 2005
In July 2005, Journalists for Human Rights (JHR), an organisation that provides training in human rights reporting to journalists in West Africa, expanded its training activities to Nigeria, Uganda and Sierra Leone. RAP 21 spoke to JHR founding director Ben Peterson...
Eye Weekly (Canada)
June 2 2005
Verge Magazine Online (Canada)
Winter 2004
There's no law stating that NGOs have to be run by middle-aged philanthropists with countless postgraduate degrees and years of experience. But they usually are. Which is why it's so refreshing to interview a NGO boss who's still living at home with his parents.
Toronto Sun (Canada)
Nov. 1, 2004
Rap 21, Newsletter No. 3 (Electronic network for the African press)
Jan. 30, 2004
Ghanaian journalists are set to receive a boost in their techniques for reporting on human rights issues. From 9 to 13 February, a training conference that combines the discussion of topical human rights issues with intense workshops will be held in an effort to equip the Ghanaian media with the practical tools for reporting on sensitive issues such as...
Ghana's Information Bill: A right for everyone?
The Chronical (Ghana)
Dec. 10, 2003
Today, December 10, 2003, is United Nations Human Rights Day, and the 55th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In Ghana, one human right that has received a lot of attention recently is the right to information. As Ghana's Right to Information Bill is prepared to go before Parliament for approval early next year, Journalists for Human Rights looks at what the law would mean to all levels of Ghanaian society.
The Mississauga News (Canada)
Aug. 20, 2003
Two young Canadians are spearheading a task, which touches the daily lives of people particularly in West Africa, and it is a huge task. Ben Peterson of Toronto and Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque of Montreal are the co-founders of a charity named as Journalists for Human Rights (JHR)...
Macleans (Canada)
July 1, 2003
"I can't believe we live in a country of $2 root beers," says Ben Peterson as he cracks open a Jones soda. You have to excuse the 25-year-old Torontonian for his preoccupation with money. He's putting together funds for a new non-governmental organization, Journalists for Human Rights, that will help train African journalists to write about injustice in their countries.
Town Crier (Canada)
Feb 18, 2003
Hard to imagine for us Canadians, but standing up for your rights, or even understanding them is a struggle for residents in the west African country of Ghana. But thanks to a recently-installed democracy and the free election of a new government, the population of Ghana now has rights that are protected in much the same way they are in the rest of democratic world.
Labatt People in Action across Canada, Issue 2 (Canada)
So I have a summer job where I am counted on, where I need to make decision, where I get to meet with dynamic people to discuss ideas and where there is a feeling that the work I am doing is going to help someone. I don't know if this is as shocking to you as it is to me. |
  
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