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jhr Rights Check-up #5: Human rights roundtable

JHR — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:52:46 +0000

@jhrConU human rights roundtable on CJLO New Media and Politics with Karl Knox. The final jhr Rights Check-up of the season, jhr Concordia takes over the airwaves to hear from website editor Shereen Rafea, TV producer Jessie Mathieson, events co-ordinator Jenny Ho, finance minister Tanya Ayala, as well as social media guru @DamianoR.

jhr Rights Report #23: #RightsMedia

JHR — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:37:30 +0000

The final edition of the jhr Rights Report focuses on human rights and social media. @jhrConU Rights Report host @AdamBemma speaks to social media correspondent @DamianoR about everything #RightsMedia.

jhr reports: Committee to Protect Journalists

JHR — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:11:11 +0000

Since the United Nations human rights council resolution on Sri Lanka, journalists supporting this resolution are being labelled "traitors" by state-run media. jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists) Asia Program Coordinator Bob Dietz about the situation faced by journalists in Sri Lanka.

jhr reports: Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka

JHR — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:42:08 +0000

jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Bashana Abeywardhana from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka about the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution and threats on Sri Lankan journalists in the country as well those in exile.

jhr Rights Report #22: Canadian mining atrocities

JHR — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:24:46 +0000

The 22nd edition of the jhr Rights Report examines Canadian mining companies and their operations abroad, and speaks to MiningWatch Canada to learn more about Canadian Bill C-323, the international promotion and protection of human rights act.

This week, the Rights Report hears from Canadian journalist Duncan McCue about Reporting in Indigneous Communities and from Lars Olsen at the UN-backed trial of senior Khmer Rouge leaders in Cambodia.

jhr reports: Reporting in Indigenous Communities

JHR — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:12:43 +0000

jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Duncan McCue in Vancouver, via Skype, about Reporting in Indigenous Communities, a new initiative teaching journalists and students how to approach and report on human rights and social issues faced by Canada's aboriginal population.

jhr reports: Canada's mining watchdog

JHR — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:26:53 +0000

As civil society actors meet on Parliament Hill in Ottawa today for a human rights conference focusing on Canadian mining companies' actions abroad, jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Jen Moore from MiningWatch Canada.

jhr reports: Life Stories Montreal's 'Rencontres'

JHR — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:19:24 +0000

jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Life Stories Montreal about the month-long event Rencontres. Throughout March, story-telling workshops, theatre, film screenings, and other human rights events will take place all over the city of Montreal.

jhr Rights Report #21: Refugees and IDPs

JHR — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:06:46 +0000

The 21st edition of the jhr Rights Report starts off examining the viral phenomenon that has come to be known as Kony 2012. First, jhr social media correspondent @DamianoR looks at the work of Invisible Children, then James Topham from War Child Canada talks about alternative ways of drawing attention to a complex conflict.

This week the Rights Report hears from one of the Vietnamese boat people who came to Canada in the early 1980s seeking refuge from war.

jhr reports: United States of Africa

JHR — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:56:41 +0000

jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to documentary filmmaker Yanick Letourneau about his latest film, United States of Africa. Letourneau follows two African hip-hop artists, Senegal's Didier Awadi and Burkina Faso's Smockey, using their music to connect with youth and educate them about Africa's revolutionary history.

jhr Rights Report #20: Palestinian PR at the UN

JHR — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:28:39 +0000

The 20th edition of the jhr Rights Report sheds light on the Palestinian public relations campaign to gain statehood and full diplomatic recognition at the United Nations.

The Rights Report also connects with Canadian journalist Ali Mustafa in Cairo to find out about the upcoming Egyptian presidential election, and for an on-the-ground look at the situation in Palestine.

jhr reports: Documenting Iran's human rights abuses

JHR — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:45:52 +0000

jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Dr. Payam Akhavan, a former legal adviser to the prosecutor at the international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Akhavan teaches international law at McGill University and works with the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center.

jhr reports: The Arab Spring, a Canadian perspective

JHR — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:00:12 +0000

jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Canadian journalist Ali Mustafa in Cairo, Egypt about the situation post-Arab Spring in the Middle East. Mustafa is a freelance writer and media activist from Toronto working in the region and he gives an update on the human rights situation in Egypt, Syria and Palestine.

jhr Rights Check-up #4: Palestinian human rights panel

JHR — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:46:54 +0000

The fourth edition of the jhr Rights Check-up takes over CJLO airwaves on New Media and Politics with Karl Knox for a provocative panel discussion.

While Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, this week in Ottawa, Journalists for Human Rights organized a human rights panel with other Montreal-based groups on Israel/Palestine.

Sara Shaltony from SPHR-Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights and Dianne McKenzie from CJPME-Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East join Adam Bemma and Shereen Rafea from JHR-Journalists for Human Rights in-studio with CJLO's Karl Knox to discuss Palestinian human rights.

jhr Rights Report #19: Boycott, divestment, sanctions

JHR — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:05:43 +0000

Since the announcement of Grammy-winning jazz singer Cassandra Wilson cancelling her performance in Israel, the 19th edition of the jhr Rights Report looks into calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel and its policies.

*Rights Report news update: Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade will face a run-off vote since voters didn't renew his contentious third-term bid.*

jhr reports: Fair-trade flowers

JHR — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:59:34 +0000

jhr international contributor Kristy Hutter files a report from London, U.K. on the movement to certify flowers as fair trade. War on Want is a U.K.-based charity raising awareness about where the flowers you buy at the supermarket come from. Did you know most flowers are picked by people being forced to work long hours for little pay?

jhr reports: Tadamon! on calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions

JHR — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:39:33 +0000

jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma sits down with Claire Hurtig from Tadamon! a Montreal-based collective working in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for self-determination. In this interview, Tadamon! discusses the BDS -- Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions -- movement, as well as what to expect at the annual Israeli Apartheid Week and Artists Against Apartheid benefit show in Montreal.

jhr reports: Canada's most outspoken anti-bullying advocate

JHR — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:07:28 +0000

jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Tolerance Foundation Executive Director Anne Lagacé-Dowson about her anti-bullying organization. Tolerance Foundation is a group of educators going into schools, public and private, around Québec to talk to children about how to stop bullying.

jhr Rights Report #18: Freedom!

JHR — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:31:26 +0000

With news of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan's upcoming release, the 18th edition of the jhr Rights Report focuses on people fighting for freedom everywhere. jhr Middle East correspondent Jillian Kestler-D'Amours reports on Adnan's hunger strike and the use of administrative detention in Israel.

*Rights Report news update* Senegalese singing sensation Youssou N'Dour was injured at a protest in Dakar against President Abdoulaye Wade. N'Dour was planning to challenge the president in the upcoming election, but his application was rejected by Senegal's top court.

jhr reports: Syria Montreal Collective

JHR — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:27:28 +0000

jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma sits down with Syria Montreal Collective member Buschra Jalabi to discuss the international community's condemnation of Syrian human rights violations. The collective of Syrian Canadians has been vocal in its opposition to the regime of Bashar al-Assad, calling for peaceful, non-violent struggle to combat the regime's violence.

jhr reports: The Cuban five

JHR — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:34:24 +0000

jhr Halifax correspondent Justin Hartling speaks to writer Stephen Kimber about the case of the Cuban 5, a group of Cuban spies held in U.S. prisons. Kimber has researched and written extensively on the Cuban 5 and has a forthcoming book on their case.

jhr reports: Syria Awareness Day

JHR — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:03:29 +0000

jhr Montreal correspondent Patricia Vasquez Lopez reports on Syria Awareness Day in Montreal. As the UN general assembly votes unanimously to back an Arab League plan to remove Bashar al-Assad, Syrians in Montreal organized an event to condemn the regime and raise awareness about the ongoing human rights violations in Syria.

jhr Rights Report #17: The new fight for civil and political rights

JHR — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:36:14 +0000

The 17th edition of the jhr Rights Report speaks to Afghans for Peace, a group of Afghans fighting for the right to self-determination in a country under occupation, and looks at how a group of young female boxers are fighting for equal rights and changing Afghan society.

*Rights Report news update* 23-year-old Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari may face a death sentence in Saudi Arabia for three tweets deemed as blasphemy by religious authorities in the Islamic country.

jhr Rights Report #16: The price of silence on gender-based violence

JHR — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:59:14 +0000

The 16th edition of the jhr Rights Report brings attention to gender-based violence in Canada and around the world.

jhr reports: Missing justice for Indigenous women

JHR — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:53:09 +0000

jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma sits down with Monica van Schaik from Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Montreal to discuss the ongoing Missing Women Commission of Inquiry in B.C. and calls for a United Nations-led national public inquiry into the matter.

jhr Rights Report promo

JHR — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:54:51 +0000

Challenging the dominant media narrative, every Friday tune-in to the jhr Rights Report, airing on CKUT 90.3 Montreal, Pravda 93.5 Accra and online here at Rabble.ca (RPN).

jhr reports: Help Burundi journalists!

JHR — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:40:55 +0000

jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks with journalist Ruby Pratka via Skype about her donation campaign to get equipment for Burundi journalists.

Pratka taught at the Université Lumière de Bujumbura in Burundi and noticed how students lacked basic materials to work in the field as reporters, so she took it upon herself to try to provide them the essentials for the classroom and the newsroom.

To donate, please contact Ruby Pratka

jhr Rights Report #15: The International Criminal Court in Africa

JHR — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:10:12 +0000

The 15th edition of the jhr Rights Report examines the ICC and chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's case against several high-profile politicians in Kenya and the United Nations-backed trial of Liberia's Charles Taylor at the Hague.

jhr reports: Defending dissent in Canada

JHR — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:24:47 +0000

jhr social media correspondent @DamianoR sits down with Darren Shore, communication co-ordinator for Voices-Voix, a coalition of Canadian organizations trying to stop the government from attacking those who practice dissent in Canada.

jhr Rights Report #14: Burma/Myanmar

JHR — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:12:02 +0000

The 14th edition of the jhr Rights Report focuses on Burma. After repeated calls by the international community to stop human rights violations, Myanmar's regime is releasing political prisoners and allowing democracy activists to regroup under the National League for Democracy party banner.

*Rights Report news update* Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil was finally released by authorities after spending 10 months in prison for an article critical of the ruling military elites.