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Bringing our work home to Canada
JHR's Indigenous Reporters Program aims to "increase the quality and quantity of Indigenous stories and voices in Canadian media." Read More
"JHR DRC works to promote human rights awareness through media."
The goal: to work on calm, fair coverage that helps reduce violence through media. It's not going to be easy - but luckily, this team, led by Freddy Mata and Prince Murhula, has done it before. - Rachel Pulfer, Executive Director, Journalists for Human Rights Read More
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By Sara Mai Chitty, Community Journalism Trainer Sara Mai is returning community journalism trainer who was placed in Kasabonika Lake First Nation from July 2016
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By Anna Nimiriano Nunu Cecilia is sitting in the dirt on the ground, trying to sell maize at Konyo-Konyo market. The sun is hot, and
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By: Mariya-Kvitlana Tsap, JHR Intern From the age of 10 when my mom joined the Orange Revolution in the dead of winter in Ukraine, I have
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News
By: Mariya-Kvitlana Tsap, JHR Intern From the age of 10 when my mom joined the Orange Revolution in the dead of winter in Ukraine, I have
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By Melody McKiver, Indigenous Reporters Program Field Coordinator It feels like we only just finished sending off the trainers to their 2016 communities, and yet
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TORONTO, March 9, 2017 /CNW/ - Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) is delighted to announce the launch of its newest program: a two-year pilot project
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Events
Join us on June 29, 2016 from 3:30 - 5pm at 333 Bay Street, Toronto, for the official Canadian launch of the Future of Entrepreneurial Journalism Lab! A partnership
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“When you give, you are not investing in 50 journalists. You are investing in millions of innocent people in South Sudan,” David de Dau, JHR’s program manager in South Sudan, said to 2015 Night for Rights attendees. Every single effort and decision made in that room, at the centre of a big city in a developed country, would give human rights an opportunity to root and thrive in a society thousands of miles away.
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My name is Hilary Doyle and I am a journalist and writer. In 2006, I travelled to Ghana for a six-month assignment with JHR. The
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