Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) is working with a coalition of journalists, human rights and media freedom organizations to safely evacuate journalists from Afghanistan. JHR needs your support to raise $2,000,000 for this life-saving initiative. (This target is informed by costs related to JHR’s prior experience of evacuating journalists and staff safely from South Sudan in 2016.)

To support this effort exclusively, JHR has set up this special fund through CanadaHelps. Funds donated to it will be used to support evacuation efforts as well as the living costs of evacuees in third countries who are waiting for visas to continue their journey to Canada. 

ABOUT JHR

OUR MISSION

Journalists for Human Rights’ goal is to make everyone in the world fully aware of their rights. Creating rights awareness is the first and most necessary step to ending rights abuses. We empower journalists to cover human rights stories objectively and effectively.

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.

BACKGROUND & WORK AROUND THE WORLD

Journalists for Human Rights is a Toronto-based organization that aims to empower journalists to provide objective and ethical reporting on human rights issues. JHR has operated in 31 countries and trained more than 18,270 journalists and journalism students on rights-based reporting, with more than 97 million people impacted by human rights stories from JHR-trained journalists.

JHR was co-founded in 2002 by Ben Peterson and has become Canada’s largest international media development organization. JHR’s unique approach to training journalists around the world to voice important human rights issues is changing the way local media is reporting on human rights, and as a result, changing the lives of people in need. Working in post-conflict countries where human rights are most at risk - including the Congo (DRC) and Syria - JHR reaches 20 million people regularly with human rights information. In Canada, JHR aims to improve the quality and quantity of Indigenous voices and stories in the Canadian media, thereby ensuring that the wider populace is better informed on these topics. This improved understanding is essential for true reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians. For more information, please visit www.jhr.ca. 

When the media puts a spotlight on human rights, people start talking about the issues and demanding change. A strong, independent media is a referee between governments and citizens. When human rights are protected, governments are more accountable and people’s lives improve.

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