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  • Journalists for Human Rights blog post

    Hiring: Journalism Fellow, Growing Indigenous Storytellers Program

    POSITION: Journalism fellow [6 positions] POSITION TYPE: Temporary full-time, 6-month contract, January-June 2025 OR July-December 2025 LOCATION: In person in Winnipeg, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, or Whitehorse, must be legally eligible to work in Canada.  SALARY: 35 hours per week [possibility of evening, weekend, and holiday work], $25.25/hr TO APPLY: Please complete this form before

  • Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov to deliver keynote speech at Journalists for Human Rights’ gala Night For Rights 2024

    TORONTO, August 26, 2024: Journalists for Human Rights is honoured to announce that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov will deliver the keynote speech at its annual gala Night For Rights 2024, taking place at the Arts Gallery of Ontario on Tuesday, October 1, 2024.  Mr. Dmitry Muratov is a Russian journalist who, as editor-in-chief

  • Journalists for Human Rights blog post

    [Applications closed] Hiring: BIPOC Youth Journalism Fellow (Ku’ku’kwes News)

    We thank all candidates for their interest. The application period for this job post is now closed. The successful candidate has been notified. Ku’ku’kwes News is partnering with Journalists for Human Rights to offer a fellowship position for reporters who identify as members of a First Nations, Métis and/or Inuit community, Black and/or other racialized

  • URGENT APPEAL: Afghan journalists in Pakistan need your help!

    Help JHR raise $100,000 through the summer and deliver emergency support to Afghan journalists still stuck in Pakistan. When the Taliban took over Kabul on August 15, 2021, we saw one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters unfold in Afghanistan overnight. Every critic of the Taliban – journalists, educators, and advocates of human rights – suddenly

  • DRC: Political parties pledge to support law prioritizing women candidates in upcoming general elections

    At a roundtable organized by JHR-DRC and UCOFEM in Kinshasa in February, multiple political parties came forward to pledge support for a new electoral law passed by President Felix Tshisekedi that offers financial incentives to political parties with gender-balanced candidate lists. The event saw participation from women’s right organizations and media as well. Article 13

  • Meet Anupriya Dasgupta, 2022 JHR Fellow at Ricochet Media

    Earlier this year, JHR announced a new program, Enhanced Access to Opportunity for BIPOC Youth in Canadian Media, which offers paid internships at leading Canadian newsrooms to BIPOC high school/university students and graduates who are interested in a career in journalism. Through this program, Anupriya Dasgupta (pictured here) is one of two fellows who have been selected to