Journalists for Human Rights

Journalists for Human Rights

Get the most up-to-date human rights news and headlines at home and abroad from jhr. Our team of journalists in Canada and around the world strive to make everyone fully aware of their rights. Produced at CKUT Montreal.
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Check-up #5: Human rights roundtable

April 12, 2012
| The @jhrConU human rights roundtable on CJLO New Media and Politics with Karl Knox. In the final jhr Rights Check-up of the season, jhr Concordia takes over the airwaves.
Length: 1:20:18
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jhr Rights Report #23: #RightsMedia

March 26, 2012
| The final edition of the jhr Rights Report focuses on human rights and social media. Host @AdamBemma speaks to social media correspondent @DamianoR about everything #RightsMedia.
Length: 25:09
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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.
Length: 13:46
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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.
Length: 12:41
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jhr Rights Report #22: Canadian mining atrocities

March 20, 2012
| This 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.
Length: 24:13
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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.
Length: 10:47
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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.
Length: 09:21 minutes (4.29 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.
Length: 07:03
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jhr Rights Report #21: Refugees and IDPs

March 14, 2012
| The jhr Rights Report starts off examining the viral phenomenon that has come to be known as Kony 2012 and hears from one of the Vietnamese boat people who came to Canada in the early 1980s.
Length: 19:23
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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.
Length: 17:08