THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM and ULTRA VIRES

present

Mark Leger

Reporting on Human Rights Workshop: 

A West African Case Study

Thursday, October 18, 2007
12:30-2:00 pm

84 Queen's Park
Falconer Hall, Solarium

Lunch provided

You are invited to a workshop that will explore the human rights and media landscape in Ghana and West Africa, and address the challenges that local journalists confront when reporting on issues like gay rights, child labour, marital rape and instant justice. The session will also address the challenges of reporting on international human rights issues from Toronto.

Mark Leger, a producer and reporter with CBC Radio and former expert trainer with Journalists for Human Rights, will lead the workshop. He recently returned from Ghana, where he conducted workshops with journalists and journalism students.  He also teaches journalism at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. He is the former owner and editor of here, a weekly news and entertainment newspaper for New Brunswick. He graduated from the journalism program at Ryerson University in 1995 and worked as an editor and writer with the Telegraph-Journal before he founded here in April 2000. Mark has worked in India with Canadian Crossroads International and served on CCI's board of directors.

Contact Sarah Perkins (s.perkins@utoronto.ca) or Robert Wakulat (rob.wakulat@utoronto.ca) for more information.