Who We Are

Human Rights Press is a not-for-profit organization that works for human rights around the world, particularly in oppressed countries such as Latin America, primarily in favor of native nations.

Since 2000, we defend three main principles: the life, truth and Justice

Our work guide

  1. We shape global public opinion, through print media and the internet, regarding human rights violations, primarily against Indigenous nations in the Americas.

  2. We organize conferences and seminars to debate and find possible responses to human rights violations.

  3. We promote awareness of and adherence to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and other internationally recognized instruments.

  4. Through the press, we denounce serious violations of the right to freedom of opinion and expression based on beliefs, ethnic origin, sex, color, or culture.

  5. We oppose arbitrary violations of the rights of all people, such as the right to physical and mental integrity; we report without scruple on torture; and we uphold absolute political independence.

  • 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. We also founded the community newspaper "The Niagara Journal".