jhr: Journalists for Human Rights

Water is one of the most wasted resources in the world as a whole. Liberia has six major rivers, two lakes, and a heavy rainfall running from April to October each year. Yet, people all over the country struggle to find clean drinking water...

It is a sunny day in West Point, one of the many slum communities in central Monrovia. This community is not only noted for crimes and violent acts by some former ex-combattants who have now turned into drug addicts, but is also noted for it’s filthiness. ...

As Global Economic Meltdown Continues “For two months I have not been receiving money from my mother and sister in the States. ...

A resident of the St Paul Bridge community, Anthony, says the use of dynamite as a way of fishing is unsafe. A fisherman himself, Anthony explained that dynamite pollutes the water and weakens the fish, making them unsafe for human consumption...

Radio Kergheamahn Joseph Kerkulah explores why pregnant women in northern Liberia are dying at such a high rate. Liberia has one of the worst records in the world for pregnant women dying due to complications arising during pregnancy or childbirth...

One in eight pregnant women in Sierra Leone has a chance of dying at childbirth. Due to the lack of adequate medical services, they are being denied their basic human right to maternal health. According to UNICEF, presently Sierra Leone is ranked the worst country in the world in this respect...

Drug abuse in Sierra Leone is robbing children of their right to a childhood and adults of their right to live a productive life...

The Executive of Mano River Union for Peace Network (MARWOPNET) in corroboration with West African Network for Peace on Wednesday July 1st 2009, held consultation with Parliamentarians in Committee Room number one...

EPA Tights Lipped On The Issue While Advocacy Group Warns of Danger Water severely polutted from a rubber plantation in North East Liberia...

Growing up in a community where there is the belief that a woman is not regarded ideal unless she goes through genital circumcision, Matilda Ayripah could not wait for her turn to be circumcised and be given all the respect due her...