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JHR tackles electoral coverage in West Africa

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:24:11 +0000

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, the [...]

Sierra Leone’s Disabled Community Recieves Funds

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:49:20 +0000

Tamba Tengbeh is a jhr trained radio journalist at Cotton Tree News, a community radio station in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Recently, under the guidance of jhr trainers Damon van der Linde and Jessica McDiarmid, Tengbeh had been investigating stories in Sierra Leone’s disabled community. Through his investigation he discovered that the government had never made [...]

Liberian Minister of Education Suspended Following jhr Story

Brittney Teasdale — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:01:37 +0000

At the E.J. Goodridge School in rural Liberia, students were suffering from overcrowded classrooms, lack of chairs and deplorable building conditions. Student who did not get seats either stood to learn or left school for the day. One student broke his arm while fighting to secure a seat during school hours. jhr trained reporter, Theophilis [...]

jhr Story Leads to Minimum Wage Hike in Liberia

Brittney Teasdale — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:54:36 +0000

In late May 2011, jhr trainers Aaron Leaf and Janey Llewellin organized a reporting trip for Liberian journalists to investigate working conditions at an iron ore mine in the north of the country. In discussions with both workers and management, the journalists discovered that local workers were being hired as sub-contractors, on call. They had [...]

jhr Story Ends Hospital Water Shortage in Malawi

Brittney Teasdale — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:21:51 +0000

In the summer of 2011 the Adventist Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi was facing water shortages on an ongoing basis. Despite complaints to the Blantyre Water Board, the issue was not being addressed. “It has been a persistent problem” said the Hospitals Chief Executive Officer Kirby Kasinja. “We have been complaining but we are just being [...]

Shedding Light on the Palace

regina — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:31:51 +0000

In August 2010, jhr-trained Liberian journalist Peter Massaquoi embarked on a reporting trip to Zwedru Correction Palace in Liberia’s Grand Gedeh County. Massaquoi had attended numerous human rights reporting workshops with jhr and wanted to investigate the human rights issues affecting the lives of inmates, including long-term detention without trial. Massaquoi spoke with the prison’s [...]

Empowering survivors, Educating lawyers

regina — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:56:58 +0000

jhr trainer and broadcast journalist Bonnie Allen produces a documentary film about sexual violence In 2009, jhr (Journalists for Human Rights) partnered with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) to deliver training to journalism students in Liberia on sensitive reporting of gender-based violence issues. The NRC then sponsored Another War – a powerful documentary produced [...]

New Hope for Accra’s Most Notorious Slum

aileen — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:15:37 +0000

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 officials [...]

Improving health care in Ghana, one human rights story at a time

Brittney Teasdale — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:07:11 +0000

By Martin Aseidu Dartey & Shawn Hayward, Citi FM, Ghana For two years, the clinic in Dzogadze, Ghana, had not had a nurse on staff. The closest hospital is eight miles away on a dirt road that is impassable when it rains. When jhr intern Shawn Hayward heard about this, he knew it was a [...]

The rise of the Community Crime Watch

Brittney Teasdale — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:46:36 +0000

In mid-October 2010, The Heritage reporter Eugene Myers and jhr trainer Aaron Leaf produced an article about vigilante groups that play a role helping out the Liberian police force in rural areas. Leaf and Myers’ research into the Liberian penal code’s laws against kidnapping and false imprisonment found that many actions of the police-sanctioned citizen [...]