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Tag: South Sudan

  • The First National Media Symposium in South Sudan

      JHR and Media Authority concludes the first national media symposium in South Sudan By Alpha Kamara Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) in collaboration with South Sudan’s Media Authority has concluded the first national media symposium in the country. The symposium brought together over one hundred government officials from all thirty two states of the

  • The Undocumented Handshake: Is Peace at Home?

    Trainers blog, by Juma John Stephen Political events have been developing at an unprecedented speed in the Horn of Africa in recent months. First there was Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga’s peace handshake this year, which was followed by a handshake between President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda

  • The Undocumented Handshake: Is Peace at Home?

    Trainers blog, by Juma John Stephen Political events have been developing at an unprecedented speed in the Horn of Africa in recent months. First there was Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga’s peace handshake this year, which was followed by a handshake between President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda

  • JHR and the University of Juba develop Human Rights Curriculum

    JHR in South Sudan has worked with the University of Juba to develop a curriculum for the Human Rights Reporting Course with the Head of Development Communication at the University of Juba, Chaplain Kara Yokoju.   1) What is the purpose of the Human Rights Reporting Course at the University of Juba? South Sudan has

  • Emmanuel Tombe: Country Director in South Sudan

    I first joined JHR in January 2017, serving as the Country Director of the organization. I soon realized there were a number of factors before my hands to be sorted out within the first early months since the former Team Leader was leaving South Sudan to go back to Canada. The first experience I had

  • Going to South Sudan: a cross-program exchange

    By Lenny Carpenter Indigenous Reporters Program manager It all started one summer morning when I joined fellow program manager Zein Almoghraby for a cigarette outside the JHR head office. We made some chatter about a recent meeting when he suddenly changed the subject. “Do you want to go to South Sudan?” he asked. I wondered