New issue of Speak!

Check out the last Speak! issue of 2010.

Education issue coming soon…  SPEAK! issue 7.2

“Speaking Out on Aboriginal Rights” on the stands… & summer writing opportunities!

The last issue of the year is finally here! Pick up a copy from the stands in Leacock or Redpath, or download the PDF from our Newspaper page. This issue includes stories on everything from the Barriere Lake Blockade and BC’s Highway of Tears to the fight against the 2010 Olympics on First Nations land and outrage over the Australian government’s “Intervention”.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to Speak! this year. If you are going to have interesting, thought-provoking, human-rights-related experiences this summer, please jot your thoughts down, take some photos, and send your story idea to Manisha at jhrmcgill@gmail.com.

Have a great summer!

New Issue of Speak! Newspaper on the Stands

The most recent issue of Speak! is now on the stands in Leacock and Redpath.

This issue focusses on Disability Rights, and includes articles on Cerebral Palsy in South Africa, Autism in India, Disability Services provided at McGill, the high risk of sexual assault for persons with disabilities, and much more!

You can also look at it online by visiting the Speak! Newspaper page.

Thanks to everyone who contributed articles, edited, or helped with layout.

Watch for the next issue at the beginning of February!

Speak up, nationally!

REQUEST FOR SUBMISSIONS – email pitches to info@jhr-ubc.ca by OCTOBER 31st

Speak Magazine is seeking feature submissions for its upcoming issue, “The Children’s Right to Speak.”

Speak is the Journalists for Human Rights’ annual national magazine, organized this year by the University of British Columbia chapter. For this issue we are focusing on the rights of children. We will seek to address issues surrounding the subject using primarily originally reported literary journalism. Topics include anything relating to the rights of children in Canada or abroad, be they profiles of people and organizations involved in children’s rights, investigations into rights violators, stories about children themselves, case studies, success stories, or any related story. The stories we are seeking must be between 1000–3500 words and can be written by anyone (and here we caution it is difficult to report on overseas issues without being able to travel overseas).

As Speak is a bilingual magazine, we will be accepting submissions in both English and French. (Articles will appear in both French and English, with translation service provided by Journalists for Human Rights.)

These articles will be the magazine’s showcase stories and final drafts will be due in February (with earlier drafts due, yes, earlier). We will also be sending out a call for shorter and visual-based stories shortly.