Journalists for Human Rights

rdf:langString Journalists for Human Rights

rdf:langString JHR (Journalists for Human Rights)

rdf:langString JHR

rdf:langString Toronto, Ontario, Canada

rdf:langString Mobilizing Media. Changing Lives

rdf:langString non-profit organization

rdf:langString Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) is Canada's largest international media development organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. JHR was founded in 2002 by Benjamin Peterson and Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque in 2002. JHR's mission is to inspire and mobilize media to cover human rights stories in ways that help communities help themselves. The organization's vision is for everybody in the world to access their human rights. JHR believes that, "Creating rights awareness is the first and most necessary step to ending the abuse of human rights. By mobilizing the media to spread human rights awareness, JHR informs people about human rights, empowering marginalized communities to stand up, speak out, and protect themselves". JHR has partnered with more than 400 media organizations in 29 different countries to train over 17,650 journalists, whose human rights stories have reached over 76 million people. JHR employs a rights-based "reciprocal change" approach, a process that involves local media partnerships and development outcomes determined through participatory consultation with editors and owners, working journalists, students, civil society and other relevant stakeholders within a region. JHR is currently led by its Executive Director, Rachel Pulfer. with ongoing programs in Mali, Kenya, working with Syrian journalists in Turkey, Tunisia, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Canada.