Webinar: Human Rights & Climate Change
Join us for a discussion and Q&A about the intersection of solutions journalism, human rights, and the climate crisis. This event is for professional journalists, journalism students, and media professionals.
The climate crisis is having a profound impact on all human rights, including the rights to life, self-determination, development, food, health, water and sanitation, and housing. But its effects are not experienced by all people and all places equally. The areas most impacted by the climate crisis are often geopolitically remote and inhabited by Indigenous people, Black people, people of colour, and economically marginalized peoples.
Three Canadian journalists and human rights experts, Jesse Firempong (National Observer), Stephanie Wood (The Narwhal), and Jerome Turner (Ricochet), will discuss the climate crisis and human rights violations of marginalized communities in Canada.
Attendees will learn how to use solutions journalism to cover the crisis in a way that gives voice to the communities most at risk. This panel will be hosted by Kimberley Hartwig and Ziya Jones, regional trainers at Journalists for Human Rights. This event is part of JHR’s Strengthening Media in Canada through a Rights-Based Solutions Approach program and is funded by the McConnell Foundation.
About the panelists
Jesse Firempong (National Observer): Jesse Firempong is a columnist for Canada's National Observer writing about climate justice. A Ghanaian-Canadian freelance writer and communications strategist focused on social and climate justice, she has worked with Greenpeace, Oxfam, and on human rights projects in Canada, Ghana, and Botswana.
Stephanie Wood (The Narwhal): Steph Kwetásel'wet Wood is a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh journalist living and writing in North Vancouver. In 2020, she was nominated for the Emerging Indigenous Journalist award by the Canadian Association of Journalists. She writes stories about Indigenous rights, the arts, sustainability and social justice.
Jerome Turner (Ricochet): Jerome Turner covers national and provincial issues with a focus on Indigenous peoples. Born and raised in the village of Gitanmaax (Old Hazelton, B.C.), he is of Gitxsan and Swedish descent. Turner won the Canadian Association of Journalists' highest honour, the President's Award, for his behind-police-lines coverage of an RCMP raid on Wet'suwet'en land defenders in 2020.