jhr funds project to bring domestic violence awareness to rural communities...
In addition to training local journalists on human rights reporting, as a part of our programming overseas, jhr provides grants to local African NGO’s as a way of advancing local growth. In 2009 jhr...
View ArticleA jhr-trained journalist is one of very few Ghanaian reporters to visit a...
In 2005, Ramana Shareef, a jhr-trained journalist at Metro TV, reported a story on the Gambaga Witches Camp in an attempt to personalize the elderly women that had all been banished from their...
View ArticleGay rights activist spreads his message in Ghana
A local journalist, through jhr training, prompted the first ever discussion on gay rights in Ghana on Joy’s Super Radio Show, a daily news program that reaches a quarter of Ghana’s population. The...
View ArticleSierra Leonean journalist wins human rights award
Rachel Horner, a Sierra Leonean and jhr-trained journalist, was honored in 2008 with a jhr award for outstanding performance and lasting contribution to the field of investigative and human rights...
View ArticlePresident launches Liberia’s first radio station for women
In August 2010 the president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf visited jhr’s partner radio station LWDR (Liberia Women Democracy Radio), Liberia’s first radio station for women. jhr trainer Tamasin...
View ArticleEducational trips to Bunce Island in Sierra Leone hope to attract tourism of...
For many years, Bunce Island – the main slave port from Sierra Leone to North America and Europe – has been left in ruins. Sierra Leoneans consider the island a source of pride because of all the...
View ArticlePhotographers take to the streets of Sierra Leone
In August 2009, jhr’s former Country Director in Sierra Leone, Stephen Douglas, met the Indigenous Photographers Union of Sierra Leone, a group of 60 photographers hoping to learn more about...
View ArticleNew Hope for Accra’s Most Notorious Slum
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...
View ArticleSierra Leone’s Disabled Community Recieves Funds
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...
View ArticleJHR-trained journalist wins scholarship to study in Canada
Airport to airport, it is 7024 km from Tamale, Ghana to Halifax, Nova Scotia. But for Shahadu Abdul Somed, the journey started ain 2005, when he worked with JHR trainer Samantha Mednick, her support...
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