Impact

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  • TUNISIA: JHR concludes country-wide training tour for journalists

    A workshop in Kaf, conducted as part of JHR’s 2021 training tour in Tunisia.  Through the latter half of 2021, JHR conducted a training tour for journalists across Tunisia, ensuring that skill-building opportunities are available to media in even the most remote parts of the country.  The training tour took place over six months and

  • JHR’s Canada World program gets a mention in The Banff Forum’s 20 Years of Impact report 

    JHR’s Canada World program was one of four projects singled out for a feature in the Banff Forum’s 20 Years Of Impact report from the hundreds of initiatives developed or accelerated as a result of their leaders’ participation in the Banff Forum over the past two decades. In the report, JHR Executive Director Rachel Pulfer

  • DRC: JHR organizes on-air forum to discuss strategies to eliminate GBV

    On International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (November 25), JHR-DRC kicked off activities for the #16daysofactivism for the prevention of gender based violence (GBV) with an on-air forum at the Radio de la Femme studio. At the forum, United Nations Joint Human Rights Office representative Charlotte Songue and Pascaline Zamuda of the Recovery

  • KENYA: Anti-trafficking NGO donated three-storey building

    The Counter Human Trafficking Trust – East Africa (CHTEA) has been donated a three-storey building after Judie Kaberia, former Gender Lead of JHR’s Canada World Program in Kenya and now ED of Association of Media Women In Kenya (AMWIK), wrote about the organization’s severely under-resourced efforts to provide refuge to 120 Ugandan women who were

  • KENYA: School for teen mothers gets support

    Greenland Girls’ staff and students pose with visitors at the school – Photo courtesy GGS’s Facebook page A school for teen mothers in Kenya’s Kajiado County, Greenland Girls School, has received a boost in publicity and numerous pledges of support after journalist and JHR trainee Moraa Obiria interviewed its founder and CEO Purity Gikunda. Obiria