Who We Are

HR Press is a not-for-profit organization that works for human rights in general and particularly for free expression.

The HR Press member are journalists and writers around the world, Spanish and English speaking.

HR Press has been legally recognized in Ontario, Canada with the following objectives:

  1. Reporting to world public opinion through writing words, and all kind of media, about the violations of the human rights;

  2. To organize meetings, seminaries, debates on human rights;

  3. To publish and promote the knowledge and adherence to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and other internationally recognized instruments;

  4. To fight trough the press, against the serious violations that everyone has to the right to freedom of opinion and expressing our convictions by reason of our ideas, ethnic origin, sex, color or culture;

  5. To oppose to arbitrary violations at right that all individual person has. Rights to the physic integrity and mental. To inform about tortures without scruples, and absolute independence of politic character;

  6. We support citizens’ rights have to the life, health, education and other rights.

  • Mission

    Working for a new universal culture for life, justice and truth.

  • Vision

    As journalist and writer in exile, we are working focusing on projects that reach Canadian and international multicultural audience creating awareness of human rights issues through media and other mass events.

  • Is everybody’s duty:

    To support us building a world in which hunger, ignorance, cruelty and injustice does not prevail. A world in which the promise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights becomes a reality. Our duties are developing intense activity through different sources of media, with the aim to carry out human right education programs and creating a strong public opinion concerning to human rights issues and the environmental protection.

 

President’s Profile

Pedro Valdez Bernales is a Peruvian-Canadian journalist. He was a tireless worker for human rights, for that reason, Valdez was persecuted by the Peruvian government. He was forced into exile in Bolivia and later in Canada. In Toronto, Valdez has worked for over a decade as fieldworker in Amnesty International. He is a member of PEN Canada and Canadian Journalist for Free Expression (CJFE). He is also a co-founder of Journalist in Exile (JEX) and President of the Hispanic Press Association (HIPAC). In 2000 he founded Human Rights’ Press.

Later he founded the AméricaLatina newspaper, a press that deals with issues of Latin America and the world, is distributed in most Latin-American businesses, some libraries and bookstores, as well as in the main universities in the Toronto area.