Journalists for Human Rights

“I Stories” raise awareness around gender-based violence

Each year, Johannesburg-based GenderLinks asks women and men across the country to submit stories about how gender-based violence has affected them. The stories are published into a book, distributed to media outlets and posted on GenderLinks’ website. Some of the women who shared their experiences for this year’s “I Stories” publication got together to record brief audio versions for radio stations, hoping that this would increase the reach of their important stories.

The recording was done by CMFD (Community Media for Development) Productions, who also produced 3 short radio spots promoting the South African “16 Days of Activism on Gender Violence,” which runs from November 24 – December 10.

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“I Stories” raise awareness around gender-based violence

Each year, Johannesburg-based GenderLinks asks women and men across the country to submit stories about how gender-based violence has affected them. The stories are published into a book, distributed to media outlets and posted on GenderLinks’ website. Some of the women who shared their experiences for this year’s “I Stories” publication got together to record brief audio versions for radio stations, hoping that this would increase the reach of their important stories.

The recording was done by CMFD (Community Media for Development) Productions, who also produced 3 short radio spots promoting the South African “16 Days of Activism on Gender Violence,” which runs from November 24 – December 10.

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This 10-minute feature looks at the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on the work of an organisation that helps Johannesburg’s thousands of shack-dwellers access proper housing. It was aired as part of a weekly series of podcasts called the Green Planet Monitor, which look at environmental and cross-cutting issues around the world.

Tonya Graham Reports From South Africa

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A number of children have been killed by witchcraft in a small village in Sierra Leone.  Witch hunters have been hired to find and exorcise the witch responsible.

Greg Crompton and Abu Bakaar Jalloh Report

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Women in Sierra Leone are making their voices heard overtop dancehall, reggae, and hip-hop beats. These women are freestyling for change in the second least developed nation in the world. Sierra Leoneans are listening. The government better open their ears.

Greg Crompton and Abu Bakar Jalloh Report

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Do you think HIV/AIDS is real? Could it all be a conspiracy theory by the developed nations to curb the population of Africa? Greg Crompton investigates why many Sierra Leoneans are questioning the validity of HIV/AIDS and how this has allowed the virus to spread at an alarming rate.

Greg Crompton and Abu Bakar Jalloh Report

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Hannah Zitner Reports

Annie Qulee is a Liberian living in Budubum refugee camp. The camp, located just outside of Accra, is home to roughly 3500 refugees. She supports her three boys on the $2/day she earns selling potato greens at the camp’s market. The 43-year-old fled Monrovia in 1996 after loosing most of her family and friends during Liberia’s first civil war and has since been living at Buduburam. Although there was a volunteer repatriation back to Liberia this fall, Annie stayed in Ghana. She says the $5 given to refugees for leaving, would not be enough to support herself and her boys while they try and establish new lives.

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By Alex Kobina Mensah (Producer: Darrell Harvey), Joy FM (Ghana)

17 July 2007

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By Hicham Safieddine, Citi FM (Ghana)

June 2007

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