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Human Rights Handbook For Ghanaian Journalists


Author

Sarah Kelsey
Ben Peterson

Publication Date

2003

Summary

This handbook discusses the concept of human rights and answers the following questions: What are human rights? What is the moral grounding of human rights? Why believe in human rights? What are the limits of human rights?

Topics include:
  • Limits of human rights
  • Three generations of human rights
  • Civil and political rights
  • Economic, social and cultural rights
  • Group and communal rights’
  • History of human rights in the developing world
  • Quick tools for reporting human rights abuses
  • How human rights are protected

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Publisher

Journalists for Human Rights (JHR)

Number of Pages

34

Contact

Ben Peterson
jhr (Journalists for Human Rights) - Canada Office

147 Spadina Avenue, Suite 206

Toronto
M5V 2L7
Canada
Tel: + 416 413 0240
Fax: + 416 413 1832
jhr website
ben.peterson@jhr.ca


Ato Kwamena Dadzie
Country Director
Journalists for Human Rights - Ghana

Hse. No. F732/1
Near Duncan's Bar
Osu RE

Accra
Ghana
Tel: +233 (0) 24 372 7174
accra@jhr.ca

Source

Yahoo Groups JHR on January 24 2005.


Placed on the Soul Beat Africa site February 14 2005
Last Updated November 11 2008


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