JHR - Journalists for Human Rights

Published purpose

This project aims to combat the impact of COVID-19 on human rights, particularly those of women and girls. Project activities include: (1) providing training to journalists to report on the status of human rights and women’s rights as affected by COVID -19. This includes access to health-care and social services; (2) providing training to journalists to identify misinformation and disinformation on COVID-19 to debunk dangerous myths in social media; (3) providing training to journalists to only report scientifically valid information to the public; (4) educating targeted communities on how to detect misinformation and disinformation in the media and to find credible sources of information about COVID-19; and (5) providing training to communities to recognize when their human rights are not being observed due to COVID-19. This project is being implemented in Gambia, Ghana, Iraq, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, and Yemen.