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Faces of Ada magazine gives Ghana’s marginalized communities a powerful voice
The JHR student chapter at the African University College of Communications has gained national attention with a student-produced rights media magazine. Within two short years, a magazine that began as a JHR-mentored project at AUCC, has become a fixture on the university campus. In 2013 the student chapter will be producing the third issue of the magazine,
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JHR-trained journalist wins national feature award in Ghana
Jamila Akweley Okertchiri, Daily Guide reporter and JHR-mentored journalist, won Best Feature Writer at the Ghana Journalism Association’s prestigious annual awards ceremony. The winning story, Six Years of False Hopes: Disabled Still Struggle After 2006 Law, contributed strongly to the Ghanaian government’s decision to issue benefits, promised but never distributed, to disabled Ghanaians. “My motivation has
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Trafficked child is united with family thanks to JHR-trained journalist Maxwell Suuk
Because of a story by JHR-trained journalist Maxwell Suuk, a nine year old Nigerian boy trafficked into Ghana has returned to his family. Suuk learned that a young boy working at a shop selling motorcycle parts in Tamale, Ghana was not attending school, so he decided to investigate. After much patience and persistence, Suuk
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JHR stops toxic waste dumping in Accra
Thanks to an investigation by Richard Sky, a JHR-trained journalist with CITI FM in Accra, Ghana, Accra municipal authorities have assured city residents that toxic medical waste will no longer be dumped into their water supply. Military Hospital 37 is one of Ghana’s oldest medical facilities. Just over a year ago the pipe meant to take medical
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JHR tackles electoral coverage in West Africa
William Yaw Owusu is a journalist with Ghana’s Daily Guide newspaper, based in Accra. Recently, he returned from an exchange trip to Sierra Leone, organized by JHR and sponsored by the Commonwealth Foundation. Prior to the trip, he had hosted visiting journalists from Sierra Leone in his newsroom in Accra. According to Yaw Owusu,
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New Hope for Accra’s Most Notorious Slum
jhr-led Magazine Sets Agenda for a Brighter Future in Ghana’s Old Fadama On June 4th, 2011, jhr (Journalists for Human Rights) collaborated with students from the African University College of Communications (AUCC) to launch Faces of Old Fadama, a magazine created to put a human face on the largest “slum” in Ghana. Attended by
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