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jhr reports: Defending dissent in Canada

January 30, 2012
| jhr hr social media correspondent @DamianoR sits down with Darren Shore, communication co-ordinator for Voices-Voix, a coalition of Canadian organizations defending dissent in Canada.

11:24 minutes (5.27 MB)
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jhr reports: Help Burundi journalists!

February 5, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks with journalist Ruby Pratka about her donation campaign to get equipment for Burundi journalists.

11:05 minutes (5.08 MB)
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jhr reports: Missing justice for Indigenous women

February 7, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma sits down with Monica van Schaik from Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

7:23 minutes (10.2 MB)
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jhr reports: Syria Awareness Day

February 18, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Patricia Vazquez Lopez reports on Syria Awareness Day in Montreal, where Syrians organized an event to condemn the regime and raise awareness.

3:02 minutes (1.44 MB)
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jhr reports: The Cuban five

February 20, 2012
| 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.

13:07 minutes (6.01 MB)
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jhr reports: Syria Montreal Collective

February 21, 2012
| 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.

12:42 minutes (5.82 MB)
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jhr reports: Canada's most outspoken anti-bullying advocate

February 24, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Tolerance Foundation Executive Director Anne Lagacé-Dowson about her anti-bullying organization.

13:57 minutes (6.39 MB)
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jhr reports: Tadamon! on calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions

February 24, 2012
| 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.

12:56 minutes (5.93 MB)
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jhr reports: Fair-trade flowers

February 27, 2012
| jhr international contributor Kristy Hutter files a report from London, U.K., on the movement to certify flowers as fair trade.

2:21 minutes (1.08 MB)
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jhr reports: The Arab Spring, a Canadian perspective

March 3, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Canadian journalist Ali Mustafa in Cairo, Egypt about the situation post-Arab Spring in the Middle East.

28:22 minutes (12.99 MB)
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jhr reports: Documenting Iran's human rights abuses

March 6, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Dr. Payam Akhavan at McGill University about documenting Iran's human rights abuses.

33:48 minutes (15.48 MB)
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jhr reports: United States of Africa

March 9, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to documentary filmmaker Yanick Letourneau about his latest film, United States of Africa.

17:08 minutes (23.62 MB)
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jhr reports: Life Stories Montreal's 'Rencontres'

March 15, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Life Stories Montreal about the month-long event, Rencontres.

7:04 minutes (9.76 MB)
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jhr reports: Canada's mining watchdog

March 16, 2012
| As civil society actors meet on Parliament Hill in Ottawa today for a human rights conference, jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Jen Moore from MiningWatch Canada.

10:47 minutes (14.88 MB)
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jhr reports: Reporting in Indigenous Communities

March 16, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Duncan McCue in Vancouver about Reporting in Indigenous Communities, a new initiative for journalists and students.

9:22 minutes (4.29 MB)
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jhr reports: Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka

March 23, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Bashana Abeywardhana from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka about the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution.

12:41 minutes (17.5 MB)
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jhr reports: Committee to Protect Journalists

March 24, 2012
| Since the United Nations human rights council resolution on Sri Lanka, journalists supporting this resolution are being labelled "traitors" by state-run media.

13:46 minutes (18.99 MB)