Impact

Tag: Middle East

  • 3rd Annual Human Rights Reporting Award

    On December 2nd, 2017, in partnership with ARIJ, JHR presented the third annual Human Rights Reporting Award in Dead Sea, Jordan. The award recognizes outstanding pieces of human rights journalism produced in Jordan in the previous year. The 2017 awards received the highest number of applications to date. Thank you to ARIJ, the Embassy of

  • Refugees’ camps, where suffering is yet to end.

    Sunday, 12 March, 2017 Hiba “al-Hayat” Obaidat I stopped writing for a good period of time. I no longer have the ability to follow such a weary and problematic file that has almost proved to be the most difficult in my career as a journalist. This file has been an ethical dilemma when it comes

  • Data Journalism in Jordan: A Success Story

    By:  Anas Damra Since 2008, Data Journalism has become an integral part of the world’s largest media outlets. It has become a new industry in the media space, and has received the public’s appreciation for the fast, simple, appealing and rich information it provides. It goes without saying that obtaining accurate data and information is more

  • Expanded Space for Freedom of Speech in Jordan

    By Dana Gibreel Last year, Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) announced its call for applications for human rights reporting awards. I was still working on a report about security raids in Jordan during the past three year. Ma’an governorate was the center of my focus due to the fact that it had witnessed the largest

  • JHR Announces Human Rights Reporting Award in Jordan

    Amman – October 2016 Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) in partnership with Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) has launched the 2nd edition of the Human Rights Reporting Award in Jordan under the project “Expanding the Public Dialogue on Human Rights in Jordan through the Media” sponsored by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the

  • Journey through Jordan: Day 18

    Day 18 For the first time in Jordan, I awoke to news with no positive spin in sight. This morning, before I’d even eaten breakfast, prominent Jordanian writer, Nahed Hattar, was shot dead outside the courthouse in Amman. It happened just five minutes away from my hotel. Hattar was set to go to trial for