Clearance and Discharge Documents: Instructions without Legal Basis Undermine Egyptian Workers’ Rights
Photo credit: Zainab Abu Sitta. Reporter: Farah Radi Al-Darawi. August 9, 2020 Egyptian Abu Alaa* (40s) was unable to obtain a new permit for his current work, after the original employer who had brought him [...]
Malicious Absconding Reports Deprive Egyptian Workers from Rights
Photo credit: Zainab Abu Sitta. Reporter: Zainab Al Faqeer July 27th, 2020 In February 2018, Egyptian worker Fuad* went to Jordan to seek a livelihood, and his brothers Alaa and Salim accompanied him on this [...]
Farmer and Consumer: Who Benefits from High Vegetable Prices?
Ammar Al Shuqairi Friday, June 12, 2020 During the early days of the curfew imposed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, retail and vegetable markets witnessed an increase in prices. Citizens complained about these prices through [...]
Threats to media freedom. Democracy under assault.
Maria Ressa for the Webinar "Growing threats to media freedom. Democracy under assault." By the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom, Tuesday, September 15, 2020 Watch the webinar with Maria Ressa, Filipino- American journalist and [...]
My Experience with JHR – Ahmed Bani Hani
July 9 Ahmed Bani Hani At the end of August 2019, my first human rights experience started after I submitted a proposal to cooperate with Journalists for Human Rights “JHR” and it was about the [...]
Irbid Health Centers Poor Service Harms Beneficiaries
July 9 - Ahmed Bani Hani Umm Muhammad visits the Ibn Sina Primary Health Center, in the city of Irbid, to prescribe the monthly treatment of her 60-year-old father, who suffers from heart disease, but [...]
Grassy Narrows community newsroom holds politicians to account
By Elizabeth McSheffrey On Monday, a team of local reporters in Grassy Narrows published four news stories within two hours, using shared laptops in a classroom with intermittent Internet access. I phrase it this way [...]
JHR’s Indigenous Reporters Program wins Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 28, 2018 Toronto – Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) is proud to receive a 2017 Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation. The Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Awards, administered [...]
Media entrepreneurs amplify voices in South Africa
The first cohort of JAMLab teams smile after presenting their ideas at "Demo Day'. Teams are joined by Lab Director Indra de Lanerolle and JHR's Rachel Pulfer and Hannah Clifford (back row, far left). [...]
Business women in Juba call for support
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 a small borrowed umbrella gives her shade. She can’t afford [...]
JHR South Sudan holds several SPLA soldiers accountable for rape
JHR-trained journalists Kidega Livingstone and Maura Ajak hold South Sudanese People’s Liberation Army soldiers accountable for rape as a weapon of war – and get justice for women in South Sudan. Kidega Livingstone of the [...]
Creating a Community News Site And Radio In Eabametoong
In Eabametoong First Nation, youth Justin Morris uses skills acquired through JHR trainer Leigh Nunan’s mentorship to get hired as a local community reporter. Leigh Nunan is a journalism trainer in Eabametoong First Nation for [...]
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