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  • NEWSLETTER: May 15 – JHR announces The Misinformation Project

      May 15th, 2021 This week’s highlights Save the date: Night4Rights 2021 slated for October 20! JHR announces Canadian program: The Misinformation Project & Call for Proposals Test your human rights knowledge with our MMFC Quiz! Information Saves Lives: Stories about the impact of COVID-19 from The Gambia, Ghana and South Africa Meet our new

  • The Mandela that I Know, by Siyabulela Mandela

    Siyabulela Mandela is the Team Leader for Journalists for Human Rights in South Sudan and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations and Conflict Resolution in the Department of Politics and Conflict Studies at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. This working paper was written for the George Mason University in the US   Ah

  • July 18: Rachel Pulfer on what Nelson Mandela means to her

    By Rachel Pulfer, Executive Director JHR I was very young when I first heard the name Nelson Mandela – six or seven. My family had recently moved to Lesotho, a small mountainous kingdom completely surrounded by South Africa, and it was the early 1980s. I knew he was in jail, and I knew he was

  • Media entrepreneurs amplify voices in South Africa

    For 15 years, JHR has worked around the world to ensure reporters and citizen journalists have the skills they need to objectively and effectively report on issues affecting their communities and hold duty bearers accountable — especially young, emerging journalists. In that time, JHR has seen that an independent media that serves its democratic purpose

  • The Future of Journalism

    By Hannah Clifford, Program Manager It was 5:30 in the morning and we had just hit submit. The application was finally in. JHR had been fortunate enough to be shortlisted for funding for a pilot program in South Africa and we had finished the application in the nick of time. The tiredness I was feeling