This handbook collection was written to move forward the goal of the organisation Journalists for Human Rights (jhr), which 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. 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 programmes promote Rights Media - the process of writing, collecting, editing, producing, and distributing media that creates societal dialogue on human rights issues.

In an effort to mobilise local media in Africa to create awareness of human rights in their stories, jhr has developed a series of Human Rights Handbooks for Journalists in Africa. Each book contains information on the following: human rights; human rights law; civil rights; political rights; economic, social, and cultural rights; communal and group rights; and a specialised section in each handbook specific to rights under the constitution of the particular country for which the handbook is written.


Human Rights Reporting Handbook for:

• Ghanaian Journalists
• Kenyan Journalists
• Malawian Journalists
• Namibian Journalists
• Nigerian Journalists
• Rwandan Journalists
• Senegalese Journalists
• Sierra Leonean Journalists
• South African Journalists
• Tanzanian Journalists
• Ugandan Journalists
• Zambian Journalists

English

Journalism for Human Rights website on June 18 2009 and September 16 2009.