{"id":3275411,"date":"2024-09-16T13:05:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T16:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3275411"},"modified":"2024-10-15T14:32:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T17:32:06","slug":"chsr-news-september-16th-2024-fhss-merrit-johnson-wins-youth-human-rights-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/general\/chsr-news-september-16th-2024-fhss-merrit-johnson-wins-youth-human-rights-award","title":{"rendered":"CHSR News &#8211; September 16th, 2024 &#8211; FHS&#8217;s Merrit Johnson Wins Youth Human Rights Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recipients of the 2024 New Brunswick Human Rights Awards were honoured during a ceremony at Government House on Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">17-year-old Fredericton High School student Merrit Johnson received the Youth Human Rights Award for her work as a queer community advocate, mainly through her work as executive committee president for FHS\u2019s GSA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Johnny James spoke with Johnson to get her reaction, ask about her work and to get her thoughts on a number of key issues facing the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2248\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-16-CHSR%20NEWS-%20New%20Brunswick%20Youth%20Human%20Rights%20Award%20Winner%20Merrit%20Johnson.wav\" title=\"Play\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CHSRfm_videoicon1.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"width: 100px; height: 50px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_wav\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-16-CHSR%20NEWS-%20New%20Brunswick%20Youth%20Human%20Rights%20Award%20Winner%20Merrit%20Johnson.wav\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3275411-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-16-CHSR%20NEWS-%20New%20Brunswick%20Youth%20Human%20Rights%20Award%20Winner%20Merrit%20Johnson.wav\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2024-09-16-CHSR%20NEWS-%20New%20Brunswick%20Youth%20Human%20Rights%20Award%20Winner%20Merrit%20Johnson.wav\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recipients of the 2024 New Brunswick Human Rights Awards were honoured during a ceremony at Government House on Friday.\u00a0 17-year-old Fredericton High School student Merrit Johnson received the Youth Human Rights Award for her work as a queer community advocate, mainly through her work as executive committee president for FHS\u2019s GSA. Johnny James spoke<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/general\/chsr-news-september-16th-2024-fhss-merrit-johnson-wins-youth-human-rights-award\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2250\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-16-CHSR%20NEWS-%20New%20Brunswick%20Youth%20Human%20Rights%20Award%20Winner%20Merrit%20Johnson.wav\" title=\"Play\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/CHSRfm_videoicon1.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"width: 100px; height: 50px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_wav\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-16-CHSR%20NEWS-%20New%20Brunswick%20Youth%20Human%20Rights%20Award%20Winner%20Merrit%20Johnson.wav\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3275411-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/NEWS\/2024-09-16-CHSR%20NEWS-%20New%20Brunswick%20Youth%20Human%20Rights%20Award%20Winner%20Merrit%20Johnson.wav\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2024-09-16-CHSR%20NEWS-%20New%20Brunswick%20Youth%20Human%20Rights%20Award%20Winner%20Merrit%20Johnson.wav\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3275686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12140,1,13495],"tags":[13540,8865,293,13541,13539,13538,590],"class_list":["post-3275411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chsr-news","category-general","category-ljinews","tag-2slgbtqia","tag-fhs","tag-fredericton","tag-fredericton-high-school","tag-human-rights","tag-merrit-johnson","tag-new-brunswick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_6698-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3275411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275604,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275411\/revisions\/3275604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3275686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3275411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3275411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}